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David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at 51±¬ÁÏ, guides a poetry workshop. Hassler and other Wick Poetry Center staff will lead March for Science participants in a poetry-writing exercise.

51±¬ÁÏ’s Wick Poetry Center Creates Science Stanzas, Participates in Inaugural March for Science

At the inaugural , a global demonstration centered in Washington, D.C., a special edition of the Wick Poetry Center's Traveling Stanzas titled Science Stanzas will provide an opportunity for participants to discover the intersection of expressive writing and scientific inquiry.

Tags: Success Story, Wick Poetry Center, College of Arts and Sciences

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51±¬ÁÏ Prof Weighs in on Liberal Arts Degrees and a Future Career as CEO

GoodCall talked with professors around the country about the use of liberal arts degrees and the skills that students use as a springboard to the next step in their education and career path.

Tags: University News, College of Arts and Sciences, Featured Story

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51±¬ÁÏ Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

51±¬ÁÏ Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

51±¬ÁÏ researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

Tags: Featured Story, Community & Society, Department of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences, Research, Newsletter

Division of Research & Economic Development

51±¬ÁÏ 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 51±¬ÁÏ researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

Tags: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Research

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51±¬ÁÏ geology professor is concerned about losing valuable government databases

51±¬ÁÏ Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data

51±¬ÁÏ Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.

Tags: Research & Science, Department of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences

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