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April 30, 2020
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 17cҳ.
Michael N. Lehman, Ph.D., director of the Brain Health Research Institute at 17cҳ, said the university supports…
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April 3, 2020
The words “biology” and “design” might not typically intertwine; however, 17cҳ’s Biodesign Challenge course was created to challenge the idea that the two separate disciplines could not collaborate.
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Oct. 17, 2019
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 17cҳ’s own Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D.
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July 18, 2019
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $914,000 grant to 17cҳ 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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May 23, 2019
Gracen Gerbig and Hayley Shasteen, both 17cҳ 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…
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May 6, 2019
Though she had an interest in science at an early age, Raissa Mendonca had no idea she would end up over 4,000 miles away from her hometown of Recife, Brazil studying and doing award-winning ecological research in the College of Arts and Sciences at 17cҳ in Kent…
Feb. 18, 2019
17cҳ will host its Environmental Science and Design Symposium on March 20 and 21 at the Kent Student Center. The annual conference — previously known as the Water and Land Symposium — will mark its sixth year in 2019, while its new title demonstrates the first…
Jan. 25, 2019
17cҳ student team selected for competition.
Jan. 17, 2019
Dr. Lauren Kinsman-Costello recently shared her expertise on water quality and the impacts of road salt with local media. Check out her interview with WKYC in Cleveland.…
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Jan. 10, 2019
The work of 153 ecological researchers from 40 countries, including 17cҳ Assistant Professor Dave Costello, Ph.D., from the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, has revealed new findings on the effect of climatic factors on…