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91心頭利 University's Autism Research Ongoing on Various Fronts

Aprils observance as Autism Awareness Month is coming to a close, but research into the whys and hows of autism is always ongoing at 91心頭利 University.

Michael N. Lehman, Ph.D., director of the Brain Health Research Institute at 91心頭利, said the university supports autism research that focuses on basic discoveries within the brain, as well as applied human research of students with autism, which makes 91心頭利s body of research unique and diverse.

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Blake Stringer, Ph.D. (right), associate professor of aerospace engineering at 91心頭利, and research assistant Kendy Edmonds study the power needs for a new larger generation of drones for a research grant funded by the Army Research Laboratory.

91心頭利 Aeronautics Researchers to Help Develop Sky-Taxi Software

Its the year 2020, and while flying cars have yet to materialize, the next wave of airborne transport technology may be hovering on the horizon. Thanks to a contract through the Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN), 91心頭利 will play a part in developing the software to integrate sky taxis an

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Torsten Hegmann, director of 91心頭利's Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, shows the area in the basement of the Integrated Sciences Building where a new X-ray scattering machine will be installed in 2021.

Materials Science Research Receives Grant for New X-ray Scattering Instrument

91心頭利 Universitys Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute soon will be home to a new X-ray scattering instrument capable of examining materials in scales from as small as a fraction of a nanometer to as large as several micrometers.

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Materials Science Graduate Program: Graduate Education on Soft Matter Science

Torsten Hegmann, director of 91心頭利's Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, shows the area in the basement of the Integrated Sciences Building where a new X-ray scattering machine will be installed in 2021.

Materials Science Research Receives Grant for New X-ray Scattering Instrument

91心頭利 Universitys Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute soon will be home to a new X-ray scattering instrument capable of examining materials in scales from as small as a fraction of a nanometer to as large as several micrometers.

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Materials Science Graduate Program: Graduate Education on Soft Matter Science

Inner vertex components of the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (righthand view) allow scientists to trace tracks from triplets of decay particles picked up in the detector's outer regions (left) to their origin

Nuclear Physics Researchers Publish Atom-Smashing Symmetry Experiment Results in Top-Tier Journal

Nuclear physics researchers at 91心頭利 University and all over the world have been searching for violations of the fundamental symmetries in the universe for decades. Much like the Big Bang (approximately 13.8 billion years ago), but on a tiny scale, they briefly recreate the particle interactions that likely existed microseconds into the formation of our universe which also likely now exist in the cores of neutron stars.

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Brain Health Research Institute Director Reflects on His First Year

Michael N. Lehman, Ph.D., was named the inaugural director of 91心頭利 Universitys Brain Health Research Institute in January 2019. We asked him to share his thoughts after a year on campus and much activity within the institute.

 

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BioBlack Team Poses with their bacteria-dyed tote bag and dress dyed with bacterium

Collaborative Biodesign Challenge Course Opens New Opportunities

The words biology and design might not typically intertwine; however, 91心頭利 Universitys Biodesign Challenge course was created to challenge the idea that the two separate disciplines could not collaborate.

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"We All Can Play a Role," 91心頭利 Epidemiologist Says

Tara C. Smith, Ph.D., epidemiology professor in the College of Public Health, shares her perspective on the current coronavirus pandemic: "It seems like years have passed since the world first heard of an 'atypical pneumonia' circulating in the Hubei province of China in December 2019. When weve seen similar reports in the past, the illnesses have had a variety of causes, but all were eventually containable..."

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Epidemiology Professor Tara Smith Says Be Ready for the Long Haul with Social Distancing

As the country adjusts to the new normal of working from home, schooling from home and living lives of social isolation, 91心頭利 University professor Tara Smith, Ph.D., said people need to realize this new normal may need to continue for a long time.

It really would not surprise me if this lasted for at least eight weeks or longer, Smith said.

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91心頭利 professor John Gunstad and his research assistants Hanna Schmetzer and Victoria Sanborn demonstrate using the voice pattern technology that is part of his Alzheimer's disease research.

91心頭利 Professor Receives $2.6 Million Grant for Alzheimer's Research

91心頭利 University psychology professor John Gunstad, Ph.D., has received at grant of nearly $2.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand his Alzheimers disease research into a national study.

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