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Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Professor uses cardboard boxes, cellphones and bubble wrap to cut the cost of expensive lab equipment.

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Professor Uses Cellphones to Make Science Affordable

If you ask Christopher Fenk, science is something that should be accessible to everyone. Through his research on using cellphones as lab equipment, Fenk is striving to provide classrooms with affordable alternatives to equipment that can cost between $1,200 to $2,000 per piece. Fenk, a chemistry pr…

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PBS to highlight Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Stark professor's research on how butterflies could help serve as a model to deliver medicine to humans.

How Butterflies Could Help Deliver Meds to Humans

PBS to highlight Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Stark professor's research on how butterflies could be used as a model for delivering disease-fighting drugs to the human body.

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Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor in Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State’s Department of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.

Researcher Receives Five-Year Grant From the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's. 

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Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State receives grant to help move inventions to the commercial market.

From Research Lab to Commercial Market: State Awards Grant to Boost Economy

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University is among the institutions and businesses in Ohio to share $10 million in grants from the state’s Third Frontier Commission. Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State will share $400,000 with Cleveland State University to help commercialize the inventions that they create through research. The grants ar…

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Metin I. Eren, director of archaeology and an assistant professor of anthropology in Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University’s College of Arts and Sciences, prepares to fire a replica arrowhead at a special lab at the university's Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ Campus.

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Archaeologist Uses National Science Foundation Grant to Recreate, Test Ancient Weapons

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State professor uses a $215,000 National Science Foundation grant to analyze weapons technology dating back 11,000 to 12,000 years.

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Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor in Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State’s Department of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Biologist Awarded $1.8 Million to Advance Research of Alzheimer’s in Women

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's. 

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Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

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Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State professor explains how good cells can turn bad.

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

A Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State professor, his graduate students and researchers from Kyoto University help offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ 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 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State geology professor is concerned about losing valuable government databases

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.

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