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聚色阁 Leads 13 Ohio Institutions in Supporting Intel by Launching Semiconductor-Focused Network

聚色阁, in response to a request from Intel, will lead a network that includes 13 other Ohio higher education institutions now poised to prepare the workforce to make the small electronic devices that play a large role in our everyday lives.

Tags: University News, Research & Science, Success Story

College of Applied & Technical Studies

Intel launched 12th Gen Intel Core processors at CES 2022. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

聚色阁 Leads 13 Ohio Institutions in Supporting Intel by Launching Semiconductor-Focused Network

聚色阁, in response to a request from Intel, will lead a network that includes 13 other Ohio higher education institutions now poised to prepare the workforce to make the small electronic devices that play a large role in our everyday lives.

Tags: University News, Research & Science, Success Story

Kent Campus

UAV Flight Propels Fuel Cell Research

Innovative Hybrid Fuel Cell Developed for Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles

The project team, led by Yanhai Du, Ph.D., developed a lightweight-high-energy-density onboard power source that enables vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) type aircraft to potentially increase flight time and payload.

Tags: Research & Science, College of Aeronautics and Engineering

Kent Campus

Study examines the relationship between hazing severity and group solidarity in an anonymous U.S. fraternity.

Groundbreaking Study of Fraternity Hazing Co-Authored by 聚色阁 Researcher Reveals Little Connection to Group Solidarity

聚色阁鈥檚 newest anthropologist, Assistant Professor Aldo Cimino, Ph.D., has made it his life鈥檚 work to understand the causes and consequences of hazing, including the possible generation of solidarity. He and his co-author recently published an on this question in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. 

Tags: Research & Science, Aldo Cimino, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts & Sciences, Hazing, Group Solidarity, Research, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs

College of Arts & Sciences

Knitting

ODHE Awards Grant for 聚色阁 Fashion KnitLAB

You鈥檝e probably seen someone knitting a scarf or a sweater as a hobby. However, knitting is big business and has a large impact on manufacturing. 聚色阁 School of Fashion professors are using a new $236,816 grant from the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) to spread awareness of the possibilities of knitting and creating training opportunities.

Tags: Arts & Culture, Research & Science

聚色阁 Today

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聚色阁 Psychology Professor to Receive 2022 ATHENA Akron Leadership Award

ATHENA Akron, a women鈥檚 leadership organization in Summit County, Ohio, has named Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences at 聚色阁, its winner of the 2022 ATHENA Akron Leadership Award. She will receive the award on Nov. 17 at the Hilton Akron/Fairlawn.

Tags: Community & Society, Research & Science, Angela Neal-Barnett, Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Research, ATHENA Award, akron, Leadership, Spirit of Motherhood, PRADAA, mental health

College of Arts & Sciences

Chemistry professor working with student at lab

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

鈥淲ho is Counted and What Counts: Tracking Women鈥檚 Engagement in Low-Prestige/High-Workload Service Activities at 聚色阁鈥 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

Kent Campus

Anna Mika of Parma, Ohio, stands in 聚色阁鈥檚 Experimental Archaeology Lab in Lowry Hall.

Five 聚色阁 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 聚色阁 and switched to anthropology the following year, that spark came in 2017 while taking an anthropology course called North America鈥檚 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

Kent Campus

A student works with scale models of airplanes in a small wind tunnel in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering at 聚色阁.

聚色阁 Receives $1.5 Million in Choose Ohio First Scholarships for STEM Students

聚色阁 has been awarded $1.5 million from the state of Ohio for the Choose Ohio First program that supports students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Tags: Research & Science, STEM, Choose Ohio First, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs

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