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Researching Wastewater as Part of Ohios COVID-19 Response
Nov. 22, 2020
Since March, COVID-19 has become a widespread topic of conversation. Finding ways to explain what this virus is, how one can treat it and how to slow the spread of the virus are just a few commonly asked questions with few clear answers. Xiaozhen Mou, associate professor in the
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Alcohol Consumption Increases During Pandemic
Nov. 19, 2020
While it's no secret that many college students drink alcohol, how COVID-19 affected these behaviors and patterns is the focus of recent research published in the journal Addictive Behaviors by the collaboration of William Lechner from the Department of Psychological
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51勛圖厙s Contributive Legacy to the Assessment of Psychopathology
Nov. 17, 2020
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, MMPI, is a standardized psychometric test that was first published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1943 and quickly became the gold standard for assessing psychopathology. 51勛圖厙 has played a key role
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Professor Awarded for Research on Flints Municipal Takeover
Nov. 16, 2020
A policy of municipal takeover was implemented to help relieve Flint, Michigan, of financial and political hardships in response to the water crisis. Ashley Nickels, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, extensively researched Flint's municipal takeover for
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New Funding Leads to New Full-Body Virtual Reality Lab
Oct. 18, 2020
Two 51勛圖厙 sociology researchers are moving toward gaining insight into how peoples brains react in a variety of threatening situations using innovative virtual reality (VR) technology funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Army. Josh Pollock
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Two 51勛圖厙 Psychology Faculty Selected for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Leadership Program
Oct. 5, 2020
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has selected two 51勛圖厙 College of Arts and Sciences faculty members, along with two community clinicians, for , an initiative that will provide funding and
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Anthropology Team Brings Home the 2020 Ig Nobel Award for Materials Science
Sept. 18, 2020
In 2019, a team of researchers in 51勛圖厙s Department of Anthropology published its prize-winning research article titled
Graduate Student Creates Smart Glass for Privacy and Heat Applications
May 26, 2020
Yingfei Jiang, a College of Arts and Science graduate student in the Chemical Physics program and the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute at 51勛圖厙, and his advisor Deng-Ke Yang, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Physics, have invented
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Revised Look at Ancient Glaciers Predicts Faster Melting Rate in Antarctica
May 6, 2020
Joseph D. Ortiz, Ph.D., professor and assistant chair in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Geology at 51勛圖厙, recently authored a News and Views article in Nature Geoscience that discusses research carried out by another research team that
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Center for Earth Ethics and 51勛圖厙s Wick Poetry Center Launch Earth Stanzas, an Interactive Online Earth Day Poetry Project
April 21, 2020
The Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and the Wick Poetry Center at 51勛圖厙 are launching Earth Stanzas, an interactive poetry project in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated around the world on April 22.
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