College of Arts and Sciences

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Healthcare Design Researcher Receives $2.47 Million to Design Safer and More Efficient Level I Trauma Rooms
Traumatic injuries are the third leading cause of death nationally and the first in Americans age 44 and younger, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Level I trauma rooms are intended to stabilize and save the lives of patients with the most severe traumatic injuries. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded a $2.47 million grant to Sara Bayramzadeh, a ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University researcher, to help create trauma rooms that support staff in saving patients’ lives.

Collaborative ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Team Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Develop and Implement Drug Prevention Infrastructure in Three Ohio Counties
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’s College of Public Health is teaming up with the Department of Computer Science to develop and implement drug prevention infrastructure in Portage, Geauga and Lake counties.

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Researcher and Professor Elected to the European Academy of Sciences
One of ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’s most prolific and renowned researchers has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences. Quan Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, joins the prestigious Brussels-based organization that includes about 660 member…Interdisciplinary Student Team To Travel to International Competition in Brazil
Thirteen cross-disciplinary teams presented in the ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì competition for Mission:Life on Wednesday, October 2, 2019. The winning team, Virtual Harmony, will be presenting their concept in the international competition at the PUCPR University in Brazil on November 11. Virtual Harmony is a novel …
NIH Continues Support of ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Alzheimer’s Researcher With New Two-Year Grant
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 ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’s own Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D.
Celebrating Our Own & Open Mic
The Wick Poetry Center held the Celebrating Our Own Poetry Reading and Open Mic on Thursday, Oct. 3. The reading started at 7:30 p.m. in the Wick Poetry Corner on the 2nd floor of ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s University Library. The event was held to celebrate the 2019 Undergraduate Poetry Scholarship winners, who…NSF Award Helps ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Anthropologists Expand International Partnership
The (NSF) recently awarded ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì a three-year, $298,000 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) grant that will allow graduate students to travel to in Japan to study primates and human evolution at the world-renowned .

Sonia Sanchez Talks Poetry with Wick Students
The Wick Poetry Center welcomed poet, playwright and activist Sonia Sanchez to the May Prentice House for a meet and greet with students on Sept. 18. She met with them in the afternoon before giving a lecture in the Kiva in the evening. The ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Honors College, the Cleveland Foundation an…
Celebrating Tommy Freeman's Life
The Wick Poetry Center kicked off its 2019-20 event series year on September 13 with a celebration of Tommy Freeman’s life. The event was held in Room 120 of the Center for Architecture and Environmental Design with a reception afterward that expanded into the Wick Poetry Center’s Poetry Park. The e…
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Geographer Describes Novel Weather-Typing Model in New Paper
Research into the air masses that drive changes in our day-to-day weather has been limited by land-based and regional studies, leaving wide gaps in our understanding of these impactful phenomena. A new paper by a ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University geographer has just filled in most of those gaps.