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NIH Continues Support of 91ֿ Alzheimer’s Researcher With New Two-Year Grant
Oct. 17, 2019
Once it begins, Alzheimer’s disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way – like 91ֿ’s 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 91ֿ…
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NSF Award Helps 91ֿ Anthropologists Expand International Partnership
Oct. 9, 2019
The (NSF) recently awarded 91ֿ a three-year, $298,000 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) grant that will allow graduate students to travel to
91ֿ Partners With Opera di Santa Croce to Present ‘Sisters in Liberty’ Exhibition at Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration
Oct. 3, 2019
91ֿ and the Opera di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, will celebrate a collaborative partnership around the creation of “Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy, to New York, New York,” an exhibition opening on Oct. 17, 2019, and running through April 26, 2020…
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Author Michael Twitty to Share His Journey to Kosher Soul Food at 91ֿ
Sept. 24, 2019
On Sept. 24, 2019, we were honored to welcome in culinary historian and Jewish educator Michael Twitty at 91ֿ. Twitty calls his way of cooking Kosher/Soul food “Afro Ashkefardi.” Black and Jewish communities are the only people commonly known to use their culinary works…
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91ֿ Hosts Innovative International Translation Boot Camp
Aug. 12, 2019
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages (MCLS), in 91ֿ’s College of Arts and Sciences, recently hosted the Second MEMENTO Boot Camp 2019 – a one-month research camp gathering 20 interdisciplinary researchers from 10 countries and regions, who worked…
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New Methodologies Developed in 91ֿ 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 91ֿ, and his research team recently shared their development of new cost-efficient methodologies that may lead to much safer…
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NIH Funds 91ֿ Psychologist’s Project to Teach Children Food Allergy Safety Skills
Aug. 8, 2019
A 91ֿ 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.
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NSF Awards 91ֿ Researchers $1.3 Million to Nourish Children’s Minds, Fill Their Bellies
Aug. 1, 2019
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 91ֿ researchers may have cooked up a way to solve both of those problems, and the National Science Foundation…
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Research Initiative Pilot Project Shows Akron Children What Being a Scientist Is All 91ֿ
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…
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