University News
January 22, 2020
ӰƵ announced today that Northwestern University and three other academic institutions have committed to using HoloAnatomy® software in the preparation of future health care providers, while the University of Oxford has signed a formal letter of intent to do the…
January 17, 2020
200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale spurs international celebration; Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing leads Northeast Ohio commemoration The Frances Payne
Bolton School of Nursing is collaborating with nurses in academic and clinical
centers across Northeast Ohio to mark…
January 16, 2020
President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III today
announced the appointment of a longtime Ohio State University diversity leader
as ӰƵ’s new vice president for inclusion, diversity and equal
opportunity. Robert Solomon, an Akron native who serves as Ohio…
January 15, 2020
A
$1 million, two-year grant from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research
Trust will allow researchers from the ӰƵ School of
Medicine to further their work on developing drugs to treat Huntington’s
disease (HD) and other neurological disorders. Xin Qi, an…
January 13, 2020
To the ӰƵ Community: We start this decade amid significant uncertainty. From recent
military escalation in Iran to ongoing effects of climate change, the new year
dawns with ample cause for concern. Yet to me, it offers even greater reason for hope. Just last week, the American…
January 02, 2020
From password protection entrepreneur to an Alexa hackathon champion, teams sponsored by university and LaunchNet programs are ready to demo From “tricked-out” robots to augmented and virtual reality to sound-warping software, the entrepreneurial and inventive best from ӰƵ…
January 02, 2020
Supported with three-year, $2.75M grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation With a $2.75 million, three-year grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Foundation, researchers from ӰƵ will lead a community-wide initiative to create and apply innovative methods to…
January 02, 2020
U.S. Department of Energy awards newest ‘Industrial Assessment Center’ to ӰƵ, covering parts of Ohio, Michigan and Western Pennsylvania ӰƵ will soon offer free energy-efficiency assessments to qualifying manufacturing companies and water…
December 20, 2019
On a single summer day in 1990, Mahmoud Ghannoum’s life
changed completely. The research scientist was speaking at a conference in
Washington, D.C., while his wife and children continued their family vacation
in England. But then, on Aug. 2, Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces invaded
Kuwait. And…
December 19, 2019
From influential guests on campus to research breakthroughs, 2019 was full of headlines at ӰƵ. As we look forward to a new year, we wanted to take the time to look back at what happened at ӰƵ. In 2019, we announced the totals from the Forward Thinking…