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Science is complex, and it’s difficult to discuss it with children under the best circumstances; it’s even more difficult when they are hungry. Two 91㽶Ƶ University researchers may have cooked up a way to solve both of those problems, and the National Science Foundation…
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Bridget Mulvey, Ph.D., associate professor of science education in the College of Education, Health and Human Services; and David Singer, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently merged real geology research…
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $914,000 grant to 91㽶Ƶ University to lead a collaborative research project to study how and at what rate the geographically most widespread native conifer in the eastern United States, the Eastern Red Cedar tree…
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Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., was named the new director of 91㽶Ƶ University’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, effective July 1, having been selected for his research accomplishments, entrepreneurial spirit and passion for social impact.
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Mary Ann Raghanti, Ph.D., anthropology professor and chair in the College of Arts and Sciences at 91㽶Ƶ University, is involved in a collaborative research project to examine heart disease in gorillas.
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Gracen Gerbig and Hayley Shasteen, both 91㽶Ƶ University students in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently received the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, considered the nation’s premier undergraduate award in the natural sciences, math and engineering. They were…
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As if graduating with your Ph.D., starting a National Research Council (NRC) postdoctoral fellowship, getting married in Nepal and organizing an international research seminar wasn’t already a full plate for 91㽶Ƶ University doctoral student Greta Babakhanova, how about a…
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Though she had an interest in science at an early age, Raissa Mendonca had no idea she would end up over 4,000 miles away from her hometown of Recife, Brazil studying and doing award-winning ecological research in the College of Arts and Sciences at 91㽶Ƶ University in Kent…
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Imagine being a 17-year-old high school student, and in your first semester of a geology research internship, your professor asks you to identify an extinct 300-million-year-old, tiny and unknown crustacean specimen. Megan Schinker, then an ambitious Stow-Munroe Falls High…