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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Urban Design Collaborative Director Terry Schwarz

Collaboration Between ¹ú²úÂ×Àí and Cleveland Aids in City Development

Terry Schwarz, director of the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC), home to ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s urban design graduate program, as well as public service activities of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, was recently featured on News 5 Cleveland.

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Michael Lehman, Ph.D., and Lique Coolen, Ph.D.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Research Review: Dynamic Duo

Two nationally known neuroscience researchers have joined ¹ú²úÂ×Àí to continue their quest to uncover the brain’s complex functions—and to collaborate with researchers from a wide range of disciplines at the university and across the region to advance our knowledge of the human brain and translate those discoveries into new treatments and care for brain and nervous system diseases.

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Deric Kenne, Ph.D., Discusses Their Drug Prevention Infrastructure on Spectrum News 1

Researchers Discuss Drug Prevention Infrastructure for Three Ohio Counties

Researchers at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí were featured on Spectrum News 1 discussing the development and implementation of their drug prevention infrastructure for three Ohio counties.

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Collaborative ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Team Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Develop and Implement Drug Prevention Infrastructure in Three Ohio Counties

¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Public Health is teaming up with the Department of Computer Science to develop and implement drug prevention infrastructure in Portage, Geauga and Lake counties.

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Students pose for a photo while presenting their project during SkyHack, ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s aviation design challenge.

College Students to Compete in SkyHack Design Challenge at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí

¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s aviation design challenge, SkyHack, will take place Nov. 1-3. The event draws college students from around the nation, attracting 120 students from 14 universities in four states in its 2017 inaugural debut. ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering will serve as home base for this year’s event, which will span across other Kent Campus buildings.

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Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D. (right), professor of biological sciences at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí, works with a student in her lab.

NIH Continues Support of ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Alzheimer’s Researcher With New Two-Year Grant

Once it begins, Alzheimer’s disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way – like ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s own Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D.

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Senior Research Fellow Quan Li, Ph.D., has been elected to the prestigious European Academy of Sciences.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researcher and Professor Elected to the European Academy of Sciences

One of ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s most prolific and renowned researchers has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences. Quan Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, joins the prestigious Brussels-based organization that has about 660 members from 45 nations, including 65 Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners.

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High school students from Portage County and surrounding areas hold Chinese hand fans during a past STARTALK Summer Foreign Language Camp at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí.

Model ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Language Academy Continues With 12th Year of Federal Funding

While the daily news is full of tumultuous conversations about Russia and China, ¹ú²úÂ×Àí has been helping some area high school students learn to converse in Russian and Chinese to facilitate greater global understanding and a less contentious tomorrow.

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A bonobo stares back at the camera while another walks away

NSF Award Helps ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Anthropologists Expand International Partnership

The (NSF) recently awarded ¹ú²úÂ×Àí a three-year, $298,000 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) grant that will allow graduate students to travel to in Japan to study primates and human evolution at the world-renowned .

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Military personnel in camouflage put on ventilator masks before an exercise involving airborne toxins

NSF Supports Inter-institutional Project to Develop Chemical Sensor Technology

Toxic air pollutants such as chlorine and ozone are hazards for civilian workers and public service employees like firefighters, police and military personnel. Some airborne chemicals can be difficult to detect at low levels with high specificity, though, and relevant technologies like wearable sens…

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