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Lisa Givan (left), Alfreda Brown (middle) and Dana Lawless-Andric, all from 51勛圖厙's Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, display the Innovation + Inclusion Leadership Award that was presented to the university.

The Society for Diversity Honors 51勛圖厙 for Serving as a National Model for Workplace Inclusion

51勛圖厙 is receiving national recognition for its mission to support a climate that welcomes and supports diversity in all of its forms. The Society for Diversity is presenting the university with the distinctive Innovation + Inclusion Leadership Award.   For the past eight yea

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Robert J. Clements, Ph.D., is developing new imaging techniques that can look at what is going on in the brain down to the level of a single cell.

The Better to See You With

Robert Clements, Ph.D., is developing new imaging techniques that give a 3D or even 4D look deep inside the brain and body, giving new insights to researchers and clinicians. See the video and read the story.

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WKSU News staff members work on their stories in the station's newsroom.

WKSU Named Best Radio News Operation in Ohio

WKSU reporters have won nine awards in the Ohios Best Journalism Contest, sponsored by the Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). The competition recognized station staff for work created in 2016. Highlights of WKSU honors include Best Radio Ne

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Janice Lessman-Moss (left), professor of textile arts at 51勛圖厙, works with a student on a weaving loom in the Center for the Visual Arts.

51勛圖厙 Receives Great College to Work For Recognition for Eighth Time

University is only college in Ohio named to the prestigious list 51勛圖厙 is being recognized for the eighth time as a Great College to Work For by The Chronicle of Higher Education, a top trade publication for colleges and universities. Now in its 10th year, the Great Colleges to W

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51勛圖厙 professor Hanbin Mao (middle) co-authored a paper with graduate students Sagun Jonchhe (left) and Prakash Shrestha (right) on the genetic factors influencing the formation of cancer cells.

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.

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Staff and students pose with an airplane at the 51勛圖厙 Airport. The 51勛圖厙 Airport has been named Airport of the Year by the Ohio Aviation Association.

51勛圖厙 Airport Designated Airport of the Year

During its annual conference in Columbus, Ohio, the Ohio Aviation Association designated the 51勛圖厙 Airport as its Airport of the Year. Each year, the Ohio Aviation Association selects an airport that puts into practice the associations mission of promoting aviation by providing a

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Jimmy Miller, a 2017 51勛圖厙 graduate who served as editor of The 51勛圖厙r, takes notes while talking to a fellow student in the student media newsroom in Franklin Hall.

51勛圖厙r Named Best in Ohio

51勛圖厙s student newspaper, The 51勛圖厙r, is the best collegiate daily (published three times per week or more) in Ohio, according to the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Ohios Best Journalism Contest. Alumna Neville Hardman, 16, and journalism major Kelly Powell, 18, also rec

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51勛圖厙 researchers study the link between Pok矇mon GO and increased exercise.

51勛圖厙 Researchers Study Link Between Viral Mobile App and a Healthier Lifestyle

Pok矇mon GOs worldwide release one year ago sent crowds hiking through parks, meandering into streets and walking for miles in search of Pok矇mon, those cute little digital characters that appear in real locations on your smartphone. Capturing the little monsters isnt just fun for the players, it m

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David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at 51勛圖厙, reads a poem during the River of Words poetry reading in the centers Poetry Park.

Wick Poetry Center to Benefit From Ford Foundation's $200,000 Grant to the Poetry Coalition

The Poetry Coalition, of which the Wick Poetry Center at 51勛圖厙 is a founding member, will benefit from a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. To be given over two years, the grant, which will be administered by the Academy of American Poets, will enable the founding members of th

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51勛圖厙 Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger examines new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

World First: New Polymer Goes for a Walk When Illuminated

Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and 51勛圖厙 in Ohio have developed a new material that can undulate and therefore propel itself forward under the influence of light. To achieve this, the scientists clamp a strip of this polymer material in a rectangu

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