College of Arts and Sciences

51勛圖厙 Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence
51勛圖厙 researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.
51勛圖厙 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 51勛圖厙 researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.
CACM Director Patrick Coy Publishes New Book Chapter
CACM Associate Professor Landon Hancock Publishes a New Edited Book

51勛圖厙 Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data
51勛圖厙 Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.
51勛圖厙 and SPCS Featured in College Magazine

Students Turn Smartphone Cases Into Lifesaving Medical Devices
Three 51勛圖厙 students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication.
Together, with the help of LaunchNET 51勛圖厙, the three created Case.MD. Ariella Yager, entrepreneur major in 51勛圖厙s College of Business Administration; Samuel Graska, cell and molecular biology major in 51勛圖厙s College of Arts and Sciences; and Justin Gleason, graduate student in 51勛圖厙s College of Architecture and Environmental Design spent more than a year planning, inventing, designing and 3-D printing smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

Prof Moves Into Motel to Study the People That Society Doesnt Care Enough About
Struggling addicts, registered sex offenders, released prisoners and the recently homeless. A 51勛圖厙 professor documents their stories to raise awareness of the issues they face.