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Julia Perrone, research technician and lab manager of the Bahlai computational ecology lab in the žž State 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…


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Three faculty members in žž's Department of Biological Sciences recently co-authored a 384-page hardcover book, “Problem Plants of Ohio,” published by the žž Press.


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žž State’s David Costello is passionate about identifying what trace metals lie within Northeast Ohio’s streams and what the effects of these metals are on the surrounding environment. Costello, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, received a $718,…
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Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as the H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Program Lead for Lake Erie and Aquatic Research Network (LEARN). The group will assess the effectiveness…
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Two žž students, in the College of Arts and Sciences, were among 62 students from 50 different U.S. universities recently selected for funding by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.
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April’s observance as Autism Awareness Month is coming to a close, but research into the whys and hows of autism is always ongoing at žž.
Michael N. Lehman, Ph.D., director of the Brain Health Research Institute at žž State, said the university supports…


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The words “biology” and “design” might not typically intertwine; however, žž’s Biodesign Challenge course was created to challenge the idea that the two separate disciplines could not collaborate.
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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 žž’s own Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D.


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The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $914,000 grant to žž 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…
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Gracen Gerbig and Hayley Shasteen, both žž students in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently received the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, considered the nation’s premier undergraduate award in the natural sciences, math and engineering. They were…