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Collaborative 91ֿ Team Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Develop and Implement Drug Prevention Infrastructure in Three Ohio Counties

91ֿ’s College of Public Health is teaming up with the Department of Computer Science to develop and implement drug prevention infrastructure in Portage, Geauga and Lake counties.

Tags: Health , Research & Science , College of Public Health , Department of Computer Science , College of Arts and Sciences , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs

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Dr. Quan Li, Senior Research Fellow in the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

91ֿ Researcher and Professor Elected to the European Academy of Sciences

One of 91ֿ’s most prolific and renowned researchers has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences. Quan Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, joins the prestigious Brussels-based organization that includes about 660 member…

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Materials Science Graduate Program: Graduate Education on Soft Matter Science

Interdisciplinary Student Team To Travel to International Competition in Brazil

Thirteen cross-disciplinary teams presented in the 91ֿ competition for Mission:Life on Wednesday, October 2, 2019. The winning team, Virtual Harmony, will be presenting their concept in the international competition at the PUCPR University in Brazil on November 11. Virtual Harmony is a novel …

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Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D. (right), professor of biological sciences at 91ֿ, works with a student in her lab.

NIH Continues Support of 91ֿ Alzheimer’s Researcher With New Two-Year Grant

Once it begins, Alzheimer’s disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way – like 91ֿ’s own Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D.

Tags: Research & Science , Brain Health Research Institute , College of Arts and Sciences , National Institutes of Health , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs

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Celebrating Our Own & Open Mic

The Wick Poetry Center held the Celebrating Our Own Poetry Reading and Open Mic on Thursday, Oct. 3. The reading started at 7:30 p.m. in the Wick Poetry Corner on the 2nd floor of 91ֿ’s University Library. The event was held to celebrate the 2019 Undergraduate Poetry Scholarship winners, who…

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NSF Award Helps 91ֿ Anthropologists Expand International Partnership

The (NSF) recently awarded 91ֿ a three-year, $298,000 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) grant that will allow graduate students to travel to in Japan to study primates and human evolution at the world-renowned .

Tags: Department of Anthropology , College of Arts and Sciences , National Science Foundation , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs

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Sonia Sanchez and students

Sonia Sanchez Talks Poetry with Wick Students

The Wick Poetry Center welcomed poet, playwright and activist Sonia Sanchez to the May Prentice House for a meet and greet with students on Sept. 18. She met with them in the afternoon before giving a lecture in the Kiva in the evening. The 91ֿ Honors College, the Cleveland Foundation an…

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Tommy Freeman Celebration Reading

Celebrating Tommy Freeman's Life

The Wick Poetry Center kicked off its 2019-20 event series year on September 13 with a celebration of Tommy Freeman’s life. The event was held in Room 120 of the Center for Architecture and Environmental Design with a reception afterward that expanded into the Wick Poetry Center’s Poetry Park. The e…

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91ֿ Geographer Describes Novel Weather-Typing Model in New Paper

Research into the air masses that drive changes in our day-to-day weather has been limited by land-based and regional studies, leaving wide gaps in our understanding of these impactful phenomena. A new paper by a 91ֿ geographer has just filled in most of those gaps.

Tags: Research & Science , Department of Geography , College of Arts and Sciences , climate change

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A computer rendering of the Liberty of Poetry statue (shown here) was used by 91ֿ to create the 3D-printed reproduction of the statue.

91ֿ Partners With Opera di Santa Croce to Present ‘Sisters in Liberty’ Exhibition at Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration

91ֿ 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, at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island in New York. 

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