Research & Science
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Geographer Describes Novel Weather-Typing Model in New Paper
Research into the air masses that drive changes in our day-to-day weather has been limited by land-based and regional studies, leaving wide gaps in our understanding of these impactful phenomena. A new paper by a Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University geographer has just filled in most of those gaps.
NSF Award Helps Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Anthropologists Expand International Partnership
The (NSF) recently awarded Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« a three-year, $298,000 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) grant that will allow graduate students to travel to in Japan to study primates and human evolution at the world-renowned .
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Magazine: Brainstorming
Cross-departmental collaborations are what Michael Lehman, the inaugural director of Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University’s Brain Health Research Institute, envisions for the future. His goal is to unite researchers from a wide range of disciplines at Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« and throughout Northeast Ohio to explore, expand and advance our knowledge of the human brain and how it functions.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Professor Weighs in on New Research Regarding Burnout
Researchers from the University of Washington and Washington University, along with other collaborators, are seeking answers to those questions. They studied the brains of mice to identify what causes them to stop seeking a reward — in essence, what makes them burn out.
New Methodologies Developed in Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Geology Professor's Lab Improve Monitoring of Lakes and Oceans
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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University, and his research team recently shared their development of new cost-efficient methodologies that may lead to much safer drinking water for people in Ohio and other municipalities affected by harmful algal blooms (HAB).
NIH Funds Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Psychologist’s Project to Teach Children Food Allergy Safety Skills
A Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University researcher with a background in safety training models — and a very personal motivation — 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.
NSF Awards Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Researchers $1.3 Million to Nourish Children’s Minds, Fill Their Bellies
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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University researchers may have cooked up a way to solve both of those problems, and the National Science Foundation just awarded them a three-year, $1.3 million grant to determine if their recipe works.
NSF Awards Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Researcher Nearly $1 Million for Separate Liquid Crystal Studies
Trustees Research Professor Oleg Lavrentovich, Ph.D., a chemical physicist in Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI), just received nearly $1 million between two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for separate studies with potential applications in biomedical science, commercial electronics and beyond.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Biological Sciences Researchers to Lead Study on the Effects of the Spreading Eastern Red Cedars
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $914,000 grant to Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« 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 species (Juniperus virginiana), spreads across the landscape.
Research Initiative Pilot Project Shows Akron Children What Being a Scientist Is All Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ«
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 with community service in an effort to show some Akron Public Schools students that science is not just a benefit to their community but a viable career option, too.