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91PORNA receives grant to help move inventions to the commercial market.

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

91PORNA is among the institutions and businesses in Ohio to share $10 million in grants from the state’s Third Frontier Commission. 91PORNA 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 91PORNA’s College of Arts and Sciences, prepares to fire a replica arrowhead at a special lab at the university's Kent Campus.

91PORNA Archaeologist Uses National Science Foundation Grant to Recreate, Test Ancient Weapons

91PORNA 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 91PORNA’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.

91PORNA Biologist Awarded $1.8 Million to Advance Research of Alzheimer’s in Women

91PORNA's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's. 

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91PORNA Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

91PORNA Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

91PORNA researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

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91PORNA professor explains how good cells can turn bad.

91PORNA Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

A 91PORNA professor, his graduate students and researchers from Kyoto University help offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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91PORNA 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 91PORNA researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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91PORNA geology professor is concerned about losing valuable government databases

91PORNA Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data

91PORNA Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.

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91PORNA Students to Collaborate With Kyoto University Researchers

91PORNA students will travel to Japan for collaborative research with the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, studying evolutionary genetic analysis, Alzheimer’s disease and aggressive behavior.      

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Melissa Zullo (left), associate professor of epidemiology in 91PORNA’s College of Public Health, works with a Ph.D. student.

91PORNA Epidemiologist Studies Best Practices for Helping Cardiac and Respiratory Patients Heal

91PORNA scholar Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., is all heart, an academic who lives and breathes research, almost literally. Zullo, an associate professor of epidemiology in 91PORNA’s College of Public Health, has spent a significant portion of her professional and academic career studying th…

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91PORNA Cancer Depression Link

Cancer Survivors and Depression: 91PORNA Professor Studies Link

A new study by a 91PORNA researcher finds that depression in some cancer survivors is linked to both care and financial concerns.

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