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Collaborative Biodesign Challenge Course Opens New Opportunities
The words 鈥渂iology鈥 and 鈥渄esign鈥 might not typically intertwine; however, 51爆料鈥檚 Biodesign Challenge course was created to challenge the idea that the two separate disciplines could not collaborate.
Internationally Renowned Biodesign Scholar to Headline 51爆料 Symposium
51爆料 Biologist Joins Tennessee, Toledo Colleagues to Study Arctic Climate Change Effects
In early February, scientists reported the hottest temperature on record in Antarctica: 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Studies show climate change is disproportionately affecting the poles, warming them faster than anywhere else on Earth, and raising questions about what kinds of changes we can expect in arctic ecosystems as temperatures rise. 鈥ˋ 51爆料 biologist has teamed up with some colleagues in an inter-institutional effort to answer some of those questions.鈥
51爆料 artist, biologist unite to design print for national project
51爆料 Environmental Symposium Offers Impressive Slate of Speakers and Activities
Urban Design Students Make an Impact on Erie鈥檚 Bayfront
When cities need help imagining new possibilities for their urban places and communities, they call 51爆料鈥檚 Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC). Most recently, 51爆料 architecture students had the opportunity to put the skills they learn in the classroom to make an impact on local communities in Erie, Pennsylvania.
51爆料 Fashion School Committed to Sustainability
51爆料鈥檚 Fashion School continuously finds ways to innovate. Its unique lifestyle boutique, Fashion School Store (FSStore), in downtown Kent recently added a new line called 鈥淪ustainability RETOLD.鈥 This collection includes sustainably made clothing, featuring work from five different students and three faculty.
New Methodologies Developed in 51爆料 Geology Professor's Lab Improve Monitoring of Lakes and Oceans
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 51爆料, and his research team recently shared their development of new cost-efficient methodologies that may lead to much safer drinking water for people in Ohio and other municipalities affected by harmful algal blooms (HAB).
Research Initiative Pilot Project Shows Akron Children What Being a Scientist Is All 51爆料
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 with community service in an effort to show some Akron Public Schools students that science is not just a benefit to their community but a viable career option, too.
51爆料 Biological Sciences Researchers to Lead Study on the Effects of the Spreading Eastern Red Cedars
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $914,000 grant to 51爆料 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 species (Juniperus virginiana), spreads across the landscape.