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ÂÜÀòÉç receives grant to help move inventions to the commercial market.

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

ÂÜÀòÉç is among the institutions and businesses in Ohio to share $10 million in grants from the state’s Third Frontier Commission. ÂÜÀòÉç 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 ÂÜÀòÉç’s College of Arts and Sciences, prepares to fire a replica arrowhead at a special lab at the university's Kent Campus.

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

ÂÜÀòÉç 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 ÂÜÀòÉç’s 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.

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

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

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ÂÜÀòÉç Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

ÂÜÀòÉç Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

ÂÜÀòÉç researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

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ÂÜÀòÉç professor explains how good cells can turn bad.

ÂÜÀòÉç Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

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

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ÂÜÀòÉç 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 ÂÜÀòÉç 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

ÂÜÀòÉç geology professor is concerned about losing valuable government databases

ÂÜÀòÉç Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data

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

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ÂÜÀòÉç Students to Collaborate With Kyoto University Researchers

ÂÜÀòÉç 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 ÂÜÀòÉç’s College of Public Health, works with a Ph.D. student.

ÂÜÀòÉç Epidemiologist Studies Best Practices for Helping Cardiac and Respiratory Patients Heal

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

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Cancer Survivors and Depression: ÂÜÀòÉç Professor Studies Link

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

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