Research
žž State Biologist Awarded $1.8 Million to Advance Research of Alzheimer’s in Women
žž State's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's.
žž State Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence
žž researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.
žž State Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth
According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017.
These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it.
An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by žž researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.
Scholar Gets Students, žž State on the Move
November Scholar Puts Communication on Display
Scholar of the Month
Jessica Barness
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design
College of Communication and Information
2012-present
The word “communication” likely makes you think of language, but November’s Scholar of the Month has spent her entire career researching design as a language of its own.
Across various media, Jessica Barness, an assistant professor in žž’s School of Visual Communication Design, creates her own design-based research model that merges the making of artifacts with critical inquiry.
