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Dr. Michelle Bebber won a Farris Family Innovation Award for her project, “Searching for North America’s First Stone Age Americans at Stow Rockshelter, Ohio". The Farris Family's generosity and support of 91���� 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’s 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’s 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 – 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 “a great time to be in the field” of evolutionary biology, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Ph.D., could not be more excited about what he hopes to accomplish in 91����’s College of Arts and Sciences. He joined 91���� 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 91���� 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 91���� 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 91���� and is specifically designed for students who are currently enrolled in any graduate degree program across the university. Undergr...

91���� 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.  “We’re thrilled to receive this funding,” Vice President of Research and Sponsored Programs Paul DiCorleto said. “Especially 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...

As racial tensions shook the nation to its core throughout the summer of 2020, the historic rock located at the front of campus became a focal point of derogatory remarks. At that time, members of the Integrated Greek Council (IGC) took charge, deciding not only that things needed to change but in a meaningful and impactful way for decades to come. That’s when Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. and IGC plots Committee Chair Sydney Evans put together a thoughtful and inspiring letter to the university, which stated in part more needed to be done to recognize Black and Latino students on campu...

By: Jessica Ordóñez-Lancet  May 04, 2021 RESTON, Va. – Across more than 200 college campuses in 43 states, millions of students participated in the 2021 Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where they helped to reduce their waste footprint through waste minimization efforts, and the donation, composting, and recycling of more than 25.8 million pounds of waste. "Over the last two decades, more than 1,000 higher education campuses have joined our Campus Race to Zero Waste program. By reducing their waste, these campuses have decreased the amount of trash ent...