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STEM Professors Receive NSF ADVANCE Grant to Explore Impact of Gender and Other Factors on Workload of STEM Faculty

“Who is Counted and What Counts: Tracking Women’s Engagement in Low-Prestige/High-Workload Service Activities at žž” will examine whether faculty members with underrepresented and/or historically excluded intersecting gender and racial/ethnic identities (IGREs) perform more high-workload, low-prestige service work than their faculty peers.

Tags: Research & Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Division of Research & Sponsored Programs, STEM, Women in STEM, Research and Science, Department of Psychological Sciences

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Anna Mika of Parma, Ohio, stands in žž’s Experimental Archaeology Lab in Lowry Hall.

Five žž State Experimental Archaeology Graduates Earn Full Rides to Grad Schools

Sometimes it just takes a small spark to ignite a fire within you. For Anna Mika of Parma, Ohio, who started as a geology major her freshman year at žž and switched to anthropology the following year, that spark came in 2017 while taking an anthropology course called North America’s Ice Aged Hunters, taught by Metin I. Eren, Ph.D., associate professor and director of archaeology in the College of Arts and Sciences. She said that course changed her perspective on everything.  

Tags: Research & Science, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Student Success Story

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Neurological Research Helps Develop Potential Autism Pharmaceuticals

Autism spectrum disorder is a group of neurodevelopmental disabilities characterized by social communication deficits and stereotypic behaviors. Currently, little is known about the cellular and molecular mechanisms of autism spectrum disorder, but the research of žž State Associate Professor Woo-Yang Kim, Ph.D., might lead to a change.

Tags: Research & Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs

Division of Research & Economic Development

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Recording the History of the Liquid Crystal Institute With Ohio History Fund Grant

The development of liquid crystal technology in Northeast Ohio - and specifically at žž - is an important part of the region’s and university’s legacies and ongoing global impact.

Tags: Research & Science, Healthy Communities, Research Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Institutes and Initiatives

Division of Research & Economic Development

žž student Mallory Woods, who is currently studying in Florence, Italy, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Award. (Photo credit: Stefano Passerini)

žž State Senior Honored With Prestigious Fulbright Scholarship

In an impressive close to her undergraduate career, žž Honors College senior Mallory Woods was recently awarded the prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Award (ETA). A native of Fairview, Pennsylvania, Woods is completing a major in translation with a Spanish concentration and minors in economics and Italian studies while also finishing a certificate program in teaching English as a foreign language. 

Tags: Global Reach, Student Success Story, Honors College, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies

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