性福五月天 University archaeologists Dr. Metin Eren and Dr Michelle Bebber, along with an impressive group of collaborators, published an extensive analysis of 165 Ice Age Stone tools that may represent a Clovis Cache. The cache is thought to be approximately 13,000 years old and was found in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Listen to the story (wksu) here! ...
Julia Perrone, research technician and lab manager of the Bahlai computational ecology lab in the 性福五月天 Department of Biological Sciences, wants teachers and students to get a chance to understand ecology and data science from a hands-on perspective. Perrone, a recent graduate of 性福五月天鈥檚 Master of Library and Information Science program, is combining her passion for insect ecology with science education and outreach by partnering with Data Nuggets, an NSF-funded organization devoted to getting real research into the K-12 curriculum. Perrone developed a 鈥渘ugget鈥, a hands-on le...
Dr. Michelle Bebber won a Farris Family Innovation Award for her project, 鈥淪earching for North America鈥檚 First Stone Age Americans at Stow Rockshelter, Ohio". The Farris Family's generosity and support of 性福五月天 University provides an endowment that supports the research of tenure-track faculty members who are not yet tenured. Congratulations, Dr. Bebber! ...
Yanhai Du, Ph.D., associate professor in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, remained productive during the 2020 - 2021 academic year. In addition to the seven courses he taught, he received six grant awards totaling $707,346 in external funding, published six papers, and supervised and mentored 5 researchers at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels. Dr. Du is a material scientist and is an internationally recognized scholar in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) research and development. Currently, Dr. Du directs the research activities of the Fuel Cell Laborato...
PhD candidate Danielle Jones received a Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Award for her project, "A comparative analysis of monoamine oxidase-B expression in human, chimpanzee, and macaque brains throughout the lifespan". "The Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research (GIAR) program has provided undergraduate and graduate students with valuable educational experiences since 1922. By encouraging close working relationships between students and mentors, the program promotes scientific excellence and achievement through hands-on learning." ...
Image by Daniel Friesenecker from Pixabay Recent funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has given interdisciplinary researchers the opportunity to help drive our understanding of patterns in nature when bringing together big data sources collected in different ways. The NSF awarded Christie Bahlai, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, a grant to expand her research to better understand how biodiversity patterns unfold over time. In recent years, the insect decline phenomenon has made headlines: seve...
The sun was setting over a little Stow neighborhood in 1995. Eight-year-old Jennifer Daring knew it meant she would have to go inside soon. That was her mother鈥檚 rule: be home by dusk. But Daring was always pushing it. Just a little later. Just a little more time. Just a few more minutes outside to catch the lightning bugs dotting her grandma鈥檚 front yard at dusk. Just a second more to collect caterpillars and watch them become something new. For Daring, outside felt like home. And some things never change. At 34, Daring is still always outside 鈥 hiking, biking, rock climbin...
Is there anything quite as exciting and fulfilling as following your passion and getting to use the latest technologies to do it? When you find both early in your career you have hit the proverbial jackpot. Finding himself in what he describes as 鈥渁 great time to be in the field鈥 of evolutionary biology, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Ph.D., could not be more excited about what he hopes to accomplish in 性福五月天 University鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences. He joined 性福五月天 in August 2019 as an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, teaches the Introduction to Genomics cours...
Starting in Semester Fall 2021 , the Department of Pan-African Studies will offer all 性福五月天 University graduate students the option of taking three courses leading to a new graduate minor degree in Race, Gender and Social Justice (RGSJ) at the Kent Campus. Pending approval by the 性福五月天 University Board of Trustees, the department will also change its name to the Department of Africana Studies. This is the first graduate minor ever offered by 性福五月天 and is specifically designed for students who are currently enrolled in any graduate degree program across the university. Undergr...
性福五月天 University has recently received a flurry of grants totaling more than $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which will support research and innovation in a wide range of fields within the College of Arts and Sciences. 鈥淲e鈥檙e thrilled to receive this funding,鈥 Vice President of Research and Sponsored Programs Paul DiCorleto said. 鈥淓specially impressive is the breadth and scope of research being funded. To have such a wide range of faculty being successful at garnering extremely competitive funding is a testament to the excellent researchers we have...