Research
51勛圖厙 Biologist Awarded $1.8 Million to Advance Research of Alzheimers in Women
51勛圖厙's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's.
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.
Scholar Gets Students, 51勛圖厙 on the Move
November Scholar Puts Communication on Display
Scholar of the Month
Jessica Barness
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design
College of Communication and Information
2012-present
The word communication likely makes you think of language, but Novembers Scholar of the Month has spent her entire career researching design as a language of its own.
Across various media, Jessica Barness, an assistant professor in 51勛圖厙s School of Visual Communication Design, creates her own design-based research model that merges the making of artifacts with critical inquiry.
Scholar Gets Students, 51勛圖厙 on the Move
November Scholar Puts Communication on Display
Scholar of the Month
Jessica Barness
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design
College of Communication and Information
2012-present
The word communication likely makes you think of language, but Novembers Scholar of the Month has spent her entire career researching design as a language of its own.
Across various media, Jessica Barness, an assistant professor in 51勛圖厙s School of Visual Communication Design, creates her own design-based research model that merges the making of artifacts with critical inquiry.
Im interested in the multiple facets of design, she said. Design is social, and its a professional practice as well as a scholarly discipline. Were designing artifacts and experiences, but were also building the new knowledge necessary to inform and lead those activities. Research through design can be used to better understand people, phenomena, theories or technologies. By approaching design as a sort of hybrid practice, our students learn how to adapt to future needs within our society.