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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researchers Receive More Than $1 Million in Grants to Fight Alzheimer’s and Study Climate Change
April 20, 2016
Two ¹ú²úÂ×Àí researchers from the College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded more than $1 million in federal grants for their research projects. The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging awarded Gemma Casadesus-Smith, Ph.D., from Kent…
Read More »¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center Hosts 30th Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference
April 15, 2016
¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC) will host the 30th Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference on Friday, April 29, at the Hilton West in Fairlawn, Ohio. The theme for the conference is “Celebrating Three Decades of Success: Growing the Employee…
Read More »¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researchers Publish Breakthrough in Leading Scientific Journal
March 24, 2016
Senior Research Fellow Quan Li, Ph.D., and his research group at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Liquid Crystal Institute®, in the College of Arts and Sciences, have published a research article in the March 17 issue of Nature that could lead to a variety of breakthrough device…
Read More »3/17- Cunningham Hall Renovation Updates
March 17, 2016
Work in Progress: Chilled water service in the 3rd floor east mechanical room is 95% complete by EOB on 3/18. Will be ready for cooling system startup on 4/15. Currently insulating the chilled water pipes in the 3rd floor wast mechanical room. Steam reducing station…
Read More »¹ú²úÂ×Àí's Wick Poetry Center to Expand Traveling Stanzas Project With $125,000 in New Funding From Knight Foundation
March 16, 2016
The Wick Poetry Center at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí will expand its successful Traveling Stanzas project with $125,000 in new funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. The Knight Arts Challenge funds ideas that…
Read More »Newly Developed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Material Could Enable Advanced Sensors, ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researchers Say
Dec. 22, 2015
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), essentially rubbers with liquid crystal properties, can do a number of fascinating things, especially in the fields of optics, photonics, telecommunications and medicine.
Read More »Bioretention Cells Reduce Total Runoff by 40 Percent in Study
Nov. 19, 2015
¹ú²úÂ×Àí and Cleveland Metroparks partnered on study of two Parma neighborhoods near West Creek Reservation Rain barrels, rain gardens, and bioretention cells are increasingly used as green infrastructure to capture and slow storm water runoff before it gets to…
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¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Jordan Italiano Named Finalist for Campbell Trophy and National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete
Nov. 9, 2015
¹ú²úÂ×Àí football player Jordan Italiano, a senior safety from Canfield, Ohio, has been selected by the National Football Foundation as a 2015 National Scholar-Athlete and finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy presented by Fidelity Investments. Italiano…
Read More »¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researchers Use Digital Devices to Dispense Medications Safely
Oct. 13, 2015
Organizing prescription medications in a traditional pill dispenser is not effective enough when patients are taking up to 20 different drugs seven to nine times a day. Not taking the medication at the right time or taking too much results in 700,000 emergency room visits…
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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Hosts Groundbreaking for New Integrated Sciences Building
Sept. 28, 2015
The groundbreaking for ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s new Integrated Sciences Building was held Oct. 2 from 2-5 p.m. The event was free and open to the public. Following the groundbreaking, ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Arts and Sciences hosted a showcase of science and technology…
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