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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

¹ú²úÂ×Àí researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí professor explains how good cells can turn bad.

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

A ¹ú²úÂ×Àí professor, his graduate students and researchers from Kyoto University help offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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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 , Research & Science

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.

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Melissa Zullo (left), associate professor of epidemiology in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Public Health, works with a Ph.D. student.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Epidemiologist Studies Best Practices for Helping Cardiac and Respiratory Patients Heal

¹ú²úÂ×Àí scholar Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., is all heart, an academic who lives and breathes research, almost literally. Zullo, an associate professor of epidemiology in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Public Health, has spent a significant portion of her professional and academic career studying th…

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

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Cancer Survivors and Depression: ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Professor Studies Link

A new study by a ¹ú²úÂ×Àí researcher finds that depression in some cancer survivors is linked to both care and financial concerns.

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researchers to Study the Effects of Probiotics on Brain Health

University partners with i-Health and Stow-Glen Retirement Village ¹ú²úÂ×Àí, in partnership with the Stow-Glen Retirement Village in Stow, Ohio, recently received an industry-funded grant of $430,000 from i-Health Inc., a subsidiary of DSM Nutritional Products, to examine whether takin…

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

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Students to Collaborate With Kyoto University Researchers

¹ú²úÂ×Àí students will travel to Japan for collaborative research with the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, studying evolutionary genetic analysis, Alzheimer’s disease and aggressive behavior.      

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Jacob Barkley (left), associate professor of exercise science in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Education, Health and Human Services, oversees research activities with several students in a classroom in the MAC Center Annex.

Scholar Gets Students, ¹ú²úÂ×Àí on the Move

¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Scholar of the Month for December would prefer that you read this standing up, or even doing some calisthenics. Go on, get moving. Jacob Barkley, Ph.D., is an associate professor of exercise science in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Education, Health and Human Services. During hi…

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Hillary Clinton Campaign Inspires College Course

Hillary Clinton is the subject of a special topics course at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí.

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