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Targeting leukemia and improving fitness, quality of life Two ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine researchers are receiving new funding from California-based St. Baldrick’s Foundation for promising childhood cancer research. Reshmi Parameswaran, assistant professor of hematology…

Matt Campagna The PITCH U elevator pitch competition took place last weekend at the University of Akron with the generous support of the Burton D. Morgan Foundation. Forty-two Northeast Ohio university entrepreneurs competed. ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ's Matt Campagna, founder at Reflexion…

David Ngendahimana, a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, recently received the 2016 Innovation Challenge Award, a prestigious award from the American Statistical Association. Ngendahimana, also a fellow on the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhood’s…

Jackson T. Wright Jr. was selected for the 2016 ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine Medal for Excellence in Health Science Innovation, the School of Medicine’s highest honor, for his efforts in advancing cardiovascular health. As a leader in clinical care and education, Wright,…

Will show short- and long-term outcomes and costs of decisions A team led by ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ researchers is creating a computer model to help cities make the right decisions when it comes to drinking water Their goal includes helping municipal officials keep drinking water supplies safe—for…

Kiju Lee, the Nord Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded a $100,000 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative grant. A project of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the Keck Futures Initiative…

Jennifer L.W. Carter, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, received the Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers from ASM International (formerly the American Society for Metals) for her dedicated and effective instruction and mentoring of students and her impact on…

Jaqueline Wallat, a graduate student in macromolecular science and engineering, is one of six graduate students and postdoctoral fellows being honored with a first-tier Baxter Young Investigator Award. “The Young Investigator Awards seek to stimulate and reward research applicable to the…

Barry Miller, the Frank Hovorka Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, recently received the Edward Goodrich Acheson Award from the Electrochemical Society. The award is presented to one person every two years for "conspicuous contribution to the advancement of the objectives, purposes and activities of…

Michael Fu, research assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received one of four grants totaling $150,000 in the 2016 Target Challenge grant competition held by New England Pediatric Device Consortium (NEPDC), Center for Translation of Rehabilitation…