Year of Science
91²Ö¿â College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating a Year of Science!
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 91²Ö¿â…
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NSF Award Helps 91²Ö¿â Anthropologists Expand International Partnership
Oct. 9, 2019
The (NSF) recently awarded 91²Ö¿â a three-year, $298,000 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) grant that will allow graduate students to travel to
91²Ö¿â Partners With Opera di Santa Croce to Present ‘Sisters in Liberty’ Exhibition at Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration
Oct. 3, 2019
91²Ö¿â 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 91²Ö¿â
Sept. 24, 2019
On Sept. 24, 2019, we were honored to welcome in culinary historian and Jewish educator Michael Twitty at 91²Ö¿â. 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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91²Ö¿â Hosts Innovative International Translation Boot Camp
Aug. 12, 2019
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages (MCLS), in 91²Ö¿â’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 91²Ö¿â 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 91²Ö¿â, 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 91²Ö¿â Psychologist’s Project to Teach Children Food Allergy Safety Skills
Aug. 8, 2019
A 91²Ö¿â 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 91²Ö¿â 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 91²Ö¿â 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 91²Ö¿â
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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91²Ö¿â Biological Sciences Researchers to Lead Study on the Effects of the Spreading Eastern Red Cedars
July 18, 2019
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $914,000 grant to 91²Ö¿â 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…
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