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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
Read More »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
Read More »Shaping a Better Future: Identity, Understanding, and Change: The American Jewish Experience
Oct. 13, 2020
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Read More »Stream Ecologist receives $718,000 NSF CAREER Award to Study Trace Metals in Stream Algae
Oct. 7, 2020
51勛圖厙s David Costello is passionate about identifying what trace metals lie within Northeast Ohios streams and what the effects of these metals are on the surrounding environment. Costello, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, received a $718,
Read More »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
Read More »Researcher Receives Additional Funding for Mental Health Study in Older Ages
Sept. 25, 2020
The National Institute of Health granted additional funding to 51勛圖厙 researcher Karin Coifman, Ph.D., bringing her total award amount to more than $3 million to support her research on mental well-being and
Read More »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
"None of us are free until we all are."
Sept. 16, 2020
None of us are free until we all are. This sentence resonated with the hundreds of students who attended the peaceful Black Lives Matter protests last Thursday and Friday; cheering in response as they marched from the K, to Oscar Richie Hall, and finally to the rock. Students
Read More »Biological Sciences Faculty to Lead H2Ohio Wetlands Monitoring Program
Sept. 11, 2020
Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as the H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Program Lead for Lake Erie and Aquatic Research Network (LEARN). The group will assess the effectiveness
Read More »Geology Professor and Science Historian Co-Author Article Exploring Eunice Footes Climate Experiments From 1856
Aug. 26, 2020
Recently, Joseph Ortiz, Ph.D., professor and assistant chair in the Department of Geology in 51勛圖厙s College of Arts and Science, partnered with Sir Roland Jackson, Ph.D., a historian of
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