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51ºÚÁÏÍø receives grant to help move inventions to the commercial market.

From Research Lab to Commercial Market: State Awards Grant to Boost Economy

51ºÚÁÏÍø University is among the institutions and businesses in Ohio to share $10 million in grants from the state’s Third Frontier Commission. 51ºÚÁÏÍø will share $400,000 with Cleveland State University to help commercialize the inventions that they create through research. The grants ar…

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Metin I. Eren, director of archaeology and an assistant professor of anthropology in 51ºÚÁÏÍø University’s College of Arts and Sciences, prepares to fire a replica arrowhead at a special lab at the university's Kent Campus.

51ºÚÁÏÍø Archaeologist Uses National Science Foundation Grant to Recreate, Test Ancient Weapons

51ºÚÁÏÍø professor uses a $215,000 National Science Foundation grant to analyze weapons technology dating back 11,000 to 12,000 years.

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Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor in 51ºÚÁÏ꿉۪s Department of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.

51ºÚÁÏÍø Biologist Awarded $1.8 Million to Advance Research of Alzheimer’s in Women

51ºÚÁÏÍø's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's. 

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51ºÚÁÏÍø Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

51ºÚÁÏÍø Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

51ºÚÁÏÍø University researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

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51ºÚÁÏÍø professor explains how good cells can turn bad.

51ºÚÁÏÍø Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

A 51ºÚÁÏÍø professor, his graduate students and researchers from Kyoto University help offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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51ºÚÁÏÍø 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 51ºÚÁÏÍø University researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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Kent Campus

51ºÚÁÏÍø geology professor is concerned about losing valuable government databases

51ºÚÁÏÍø Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data

51ºÚÁÏÍø Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.

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51ºÚÁÏÍø Students to Collaborate With Kyoto University Researchers

51ºÚÁÏÍø University students will travel to Japan for collaborative research with the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, studying evolutionary genetic analysis, Alzheimer’s disease and aggressive behavior.      

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Melissa Zullo (left), associate professor of epidemiology in 51ºÚÁÏ꿉۪s College of Public Health, works with a Ph.D. student.

51ºÚÁÏÍø Epidemiologist Studies Best Practices for Helping Cardiac and Respiratory Patients Heal

51ºÚÁÏÍø University scholar Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., is all heart, an academic who lives and breathes research, almost literally. Zullo, an associate professor of epidemiology in 51ºÚÁÏ꿉۪s College of Public Health, has spent a significant portion of her professional and academic career studying th…

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Kent Campus

51ºÚÁÏÍø Cancer Depression Link

Cancer Survivors and Depression: 51ºÚÁÏÍø Professor Studies Link

A new study by a 51ºÚÁÏÍø researcher finds that depression in some cancer survivors is linked to both care and financial concerns.

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