Year of Science
91福利 College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating a Year of Science!
NIH Continues Support of 91福利 Alzheimer鈥檚 Researcher With New Two-Year Grant
Oct. 17, 2019
Once it begins, Alzheimer鈥檚 disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way 鈥 like 91福利鈥檚 own Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D.
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FIVE-YEAR COLLABORATION WITH KYOTO UNIVERSITY LEADS TO EXPANDED INTERNSHIP PROGRAM FOR ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENTS
Oct. 10, 2019
Building an international network, collaborating with colleagues from a world-renowned research institute, developing new scientific expertise, and embedding yourself in an exciting foreign culture are certainly lofty goals for any graduate student. For six 91福利鈥
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NSF Award Helps 91福利 Anthropologists Expand International Partnership
Oct. 9, 2019
The (NSF) recently awarded 91福利 a three-year, $298,000 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) grant that will allow graduate students to travel to
91福利 Partners With Opera di Santa Croce to Present 鈥楽isters in Liberty鈥 Exhibition at Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration
Oct. 3, 2019
91福利 and the Opera di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, will celebrate a collaborative partnership around the creation of 鈥淪isters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy, to New York, New York,鈥 an exhibition opening on Oct. 17, 2019, and running through April 26, 2020鈥
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Author Michael Twitty to Share His Journey to Kosher Soul Food at 91福利
Sept. 24, 2019
On Sept. 24, 2019, we were honored to welcome in culinary historian and Jewish educator Michael Twitty at 91福利. Twitty calls his way of cooking Kosher/Soul food 鈥淎fro Ashkefardi.鈥 Black and Jewish communities are the only people commonly known to use their culinary works鈥
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91福利 Hosts Innovative International Translation Boot Camp
Aug. 12, 2019
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages (MCLS), in 91福利鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, recently hosted the Second MEMENTO Boot Camp 2019 鈥 a one-month research camp gathering 20 interdisciplinary researchers from 10 countries and regions, who worked鈥
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New Methodologies Developed in 91福利 Geology Professor's Lab Improve Monitoring of Lakes and Oceans
Aug. 9, 2019
After years of remote sensing work, Joseph Ortiz, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at 91福利, and his research team recently shared their development of new cost-efficient methodologies that may lead to much safer鈥
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NIH Funds 91福利 Psychologist鈥檚 Project to Teach Children Food Allergy Safety Skills
Aug. 8, 2019
A 91福利 researcher with a background in safety training models 鈥 and a very personal motivation 鈥 has devised a method to help some children with food allergies stay safe, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) just granted him the funding to test it.
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NSF Awards 91福利 Researchers $1.3 Million to Nourish Children鈥檚 Minds, Fill Their Bellies
Aug. 1, 2019
Science is complex, and it鈥檚 difficult to discuss it with children under the best circumstances; it鈥檚 even more difficult when they are hungry. Two 91福利 researchers may have cooked up a way to solve both of those problems, and the National Science Foundation鈥
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Research Initiative Pilot Project Shows Akron Children What Being a Scientist Is All 91福利
July 25, 2019
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鈥
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