College of Arts and Sciences

Honors Student Receives Distinguished May 4th Honors Memorial Scholarship
Honors College student Daniel Zalamea is a first-year 91ֿ student studying chemistry. He is the recipient of the May 4th Honors Memorial Scholarship, awarded to one member of each entering honors freshman class. Having only been a 91ֿ student for a matter of months, D…
Postdoc Explores Psychological Well-Being and the Positive Side of Mental Health
The College of Arts and Sciences wishes to congratulate David Disabato, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychological Sciences at 91ֿ, who recently landed a tenure-track faculty position at Baldwin Wallace University, near Cleveland! After earning his Ph.D. at Ge…
91ֿ Psychology Professor to Receive 2022 ATHENA Akron Leadership Award
ATHENA Akron, a women’s leadership organization in Summit County, Ohio, has named Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences at 91ֿ, its winner of the 2022 ATHENA Akron Leadership Award. She will receive the award on Nov. 17 at the Hilton Akron/Fairlawn.

STEM Professors Receive NSF ADVANCE Grant to Explore Impact of Gender and Other Factors on Workload of STEM Faculty
“Who is Counted and What Counts: Tracking Women’s Engagement in Low-Prestige/High-Workload Service Activities at 91ֿ” will examine whether faculty members with underrepresented and/or historically excluded intersecting gender and racial/ethnic identities (IGREs) perform more high-workload, low-prestige service work than their faculty peers.
Five 91ֿ Experimental Archaeology Graduates Earn Full Rides to Grad Schools
Sometimes it just takes a small spark to ignite a fire within you. For Anna Mika of Parma, Ohio, who started as a geology major her freshman year at 91ֿ and switched to anthropology the following year, that spark came in 2017 while taking an anthropology course called North America’s Ice Aged Hunters, taught by Metin I. Eren, Ph.D., associate professor and director of archaeology in the College of Arts and Sciences. She said that course changed her perspective on everything.

Min-Ho Kim, Ph. D. and Woo-Yang Kim, Ph. D. Awarded for Research in Alzheimer’s Disease Treatments
Min-Ho Kim, Ph.D., associate professor of Biological Sciences, and Woo-Yang Kim, Ph.D., associate professor of Biological Sciences, have been awarded an NIH grant, a $1,876,627 five-year grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Aging, for their research in “Magnetothermal brain stimulation towards…
Neurological Research Helps Develop Potential Autism Pharmaceuticals
Autism spectrum disorder is a group of neurodevelopmental disabilities characterized by social communication deficits and stereotypic behaviors. Currently, little is known about the cellular and molecular mechanisms of autism spectrum disorder, but the research of 91ֿ Associate Professor Woo-Yang Kim, Ph.D., might lead to a change.

Recording the History of the Liquid Crystal Institute With Ohio History Fund Grant
The development of liquid crystal technology in Northeast Ohio - and specifically at 91ֿ - is an important part of the region’s and university’s legacies and ongoing global impact.

Putting the Patients First in Brain Fog Research
Hayley Shasteen (she/her) is a 91ֿ alumna who graduated with a degree in Psychology in 2021. She currently works as a science writer for BioSpace and has been accepted into the Ph.D. program in the Biobehavioral Health Department at The Pennsylvania State University. Her primary re…