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Honorary Degree Conferred Upon Renowned Neuroscientist Alumnus
Aug. 10, 2020
51勛圖厙 has conferred an honorary Doctor of Science degree on alumnus Earl K. Miller, Ph.D., a world-renowned neuroscientist.
Read More »Department of Energy Selects Two 51勛圖厙 Biology Ph.D. Students for Prestigious Research Program
June 1, 2020
Two 51勛圖厙 students, in the College of Arts and Sciences, were among 62 students from 50 different U.S. universities recently selected for funding by the Department of Energys Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.
Read More »Queer Pandemic: Resilience in Times of Crisis
May 29, 2020
International project to study COVID-19s impact on the UKs LGBTQ+ population announced.
Read More »Physicists Analyze Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Medical Sensing
May 28, 2020
The medical and science communities are always seeking new ways to study and monitor organs and common diseases to improve human health and quality of life. While there is a seemingly endless need for versatile, low-cost, yet highly sensitive biochemical sensor devices,
Read More »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
Read More »Study of a 1,000-Year-Old Tsunami in Indian Ocean Reveals Previously Unknown Hazards for East Africa
May 15, 2020
Dr. Joseph D. Ortiz, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Geology at 51勛圖厙, was part of an international team of researchers that co-authored an article about a deadly tsunami that occurred about 1,000 years ago in Tanzania. The study
Read More »May 4th History Symposium re-examines scholarship on the Vietnam War
May 11, 2020
On February 29, 2020, the History Department at 51勛圖厙 hosted a research symposium entitled, The May 4th Event and New Directions in Scholarship on the Vietnam War. The symposium, as organized by History professors Kevin Adams, Ann Heiss, and Shane Strate, had
Read More »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
Read More »Is our drinking water quality threatened here in the Great Lakes region?
April 30, 2020
Have you ever seen the nasty green slime properly known as a harmful algal bloom, or HAB in Lake Erie? Remember the July 31, 2014 Do Not Drink/Do Not Boil public health warning messages in Toledo? Tests revealed that the algae was producing microcystin, a sometimes deadly
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