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Eindhoven University of Technology researcher Anne Hélène Gélébart shows the walking device. This small device is the world’s first machine to convert light directly into walking, simply using one fixed light source. (Photo credit: Bart van Overbeeke)

World First: New Polymer Goes for a Walk When Illuminated

Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and ¹ú²úÂ×Àí have developed a new material that can undulate and therefore propel itself forward under the influence of light.

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World First: New Polymer Goes for a Walk When Illuminated

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researchers Help Find Pathologic Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s Disease in Aged Chimpanzee Brains

Dementia affects one-third of all people older than 65 years in the United States. The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive, irreversible brain disease that results in impaired cognitive functioning and other behavioral changes. Humans are considered uniquely susc…

Tags: Department of Anthropology , College of Sciences and Humanities , Research & Science

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researcher Examines Vaccine Rejection and Hesitancy, Discusses Ways to More Actively Promote Vaccination

The center of a public health debate is whether parents should have their children vaccinated. Tara Smith, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Public Health, challenges statements made by influential individuals who oppose the widespread use of vaccines, and she ca…

Tags: College of Public Health and Health Sciences , Research & Science

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí professor Hanbin Mao (middle) co-authored a paper with graduate students Sagun Jonchhe (left) and Prakash Shrestha (right) on the genetic factors influencing the formation of cancer cells.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017. These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it. An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by ¹ú²úÂ×Àí researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

Tags: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , College of Sciences and Humanities , Success Story , Research & Science

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí students create an app to connect students to social events.

Students Break Down Barriers for Women Entering STEM Fields

It all started with an idea that is now blossoming into a business, even before three ¹ú²úÂ×Àí students graduate. Kourtney Arnold, from ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Education, Health and Human Services, and Asia Frazier and Tiffany Coleman, from ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Communication and Info…

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí researchers study the link between Pokémon GO and increased exercise.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researchers Study Link Between Viral Mobile App and a Healthier Lifestyle

Pokémon GO’s worldwide release one year ago sent crowds hiking through parks, meandering into streets and walking for miles in search of Pokémon, those cute little digital characters that appear in real locations on your smartphone. Capturing the little monsters isn’t just fun for the players, it m…

Tags: College of Education and Human Services , Exercise Science , Health , Success Story , Research & Science

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Randy Roberts, a student working toward his associate’s degree in enology at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Ashtabula, uses his previous degree in biology to help supplement his education.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Student’s Biology Degree and Experience With Infectious Diseases Helps Him Succeed in Wine Program

Randy Roberts, a student working toward his associate’s degree in enology at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Ashtabula, uses his previous degree in biology to help supplement his education.

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Student’s Biology Degree and Experience With Infectious Diseases Helps Him Succeed in Wine Program

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger examines new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

World First: New Polymer Goes for a Walk When Illuminated

Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and ¹ú²úÂ×Àí in Ohio have developed a new material that can undulate and therefore propel itself forward under the influence of light. To achieve this, the scientists clamp a strip of this polymer material in a rectangu…

Tags: College of Sciences and Humanities , Success Story , Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute , Research & Science

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger examines new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

World First: New Polymer Goes for a Walk When Illuminated

Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and ¹ú²úÂ×Àí in Ohio have developed a new material that can undulate and therefore propel itself forward under the influence of light. To achieve this, the scientists clamp a strip of this polymer material in a rectangu…

Tags: College of Sciences and Humanities , Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute , Research & Science

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí and MRRI will conduct studies to advance treatments for aphasia.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí and Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute to Conduct NIH Research Study on Rehabilitation for Aphasia

When someone suffers a stroke, traumatic brain injury, or brain tumor, one of the common symptoms is aphasia, a disorder that arises from damage to portions of the brain, usually the left side, that are responsible for language. It impairs the expression and understanding of language as well as read…

Tags: Research & Science , Featured Story , Brain Health Research Institute , Department of Psychological Sciences , College of Sciences and Humanities

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