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Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D, assistant professor of geology in ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï, received a five-year, $487,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Geologist Wins Grant to Study Climate Change Factors and Inspire Young Scientists

The greenhouse effect is one of the most widely known causes of global climate change. It is currently caused by an excess of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere due to burning of fossil fuels. Some natural processes can help slow climate change by removing CO2 from the atmosphere. For example, p…

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Kayakers to Paddle From ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï to Cleveland for 5th Annual Crooked River Commute

Kayakers to Paddle From ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï to Cleveland for 5th Annual Crooked River Commute

Two days and 50 miles. That is how long it will take kayakers to paddle the Cuyahoga River from ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï to ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative for the 5th annual Crooked River Commute. The event is intended to promote the river as a shared asset for education, recreation,…

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Today

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Sandy's Scrapbook

When Sandy Scheuer was killed on her way to class on May 4, 1970, she was a junior speech therapy major and honors student, a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority and active in the local Jewish community. She was also a beloved daughter, sister, friend. One of the four students killed and nine stu…

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Magazine

New College and Career Academies

This spring, 300 incoming freshmen at Akron’s Firestone Community Learning Center high school visited the ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Campus to explore firsthand what careers in the areas of design, graphic communication, the performing arts and advanced technology and comprehensive engineering have to offer. The visit w…

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Magazine

Photo by Jana life, BS ’18

List Girl

 Last year, senior Kelsey Merritt attempted to break a Guinness World Record by assembling a team of volunteers to create the world’s largest mural painted entirely by bare feet—measuring 26,787 square feet—on the ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Commons during Homecoming 2017. She’s still waiting to hear back from …

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Economic Engine

Partners in Progress: (above) ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï City Manager Dave Ruller and ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State President Beverly Warren discuss the university’s new economic impact study during a press conference unveiling the report on February 26, 2018. “Sharing this data is creating a solid foundation for the future transformation …

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Magazine

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Road Construction Leads to Wetlands Research On Campus

For anyone who has traveled to ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State over the summer, the Summit Street construction project has been quite an inconvenience for drivers. For Lauren Kinsman-Costello, though, it’s an opportunity to make the campus more ecologically friendly and establish trends in biology, chemistry, geology and ecology.

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Up On The Roof

What some call a sustainable answer to urban flaws, Anna Droz calls research. As a biological sciences doctoral student in ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï’s College of Arts and Sciences, Droz’s curiosity has developed into a passion, maybe even an obsession, to discover the best vegetative roof combinations with the optimal plants, soil, and micro-organism communities.

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Teaming Up To Tackle Toxic Waters

Like a financial analyst who pores over numbers to predict the next big trend, Joseph Ortiz, Professor of Geology at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï, is an expert at crunching earth data.

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Seeking Answers In the Arctic

Arctic permafrost typically functions as a vast freezer that preserves decaying plant matter for thousands of years, but rapidly warming climate is thawing permafrost and accelerating decomposition. Increased plant growth is needed to capture carbon that is released from decomposing organic matter, …

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