海角原创

Year of Science

海角原创 College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating a Year of Science!

Researching Wastewater as Part of Ohio鈥檚 COVID-19 Response

Nov. 22, 2020

Since March, COVID-19 has become a widespread topic of conversation. Finding ways to explain what this virus is, how one can treat it and how to slow the spread of the virus are just a few commonly asked questions with few clear answers. Xiaozhen Mou, associate professor in the鈥

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Alcohol Consumption Increases During Pandemic

Nov. 19, 2020

While it's no secret that many college students drink alcohol, how COVID-19 affected these behaviors and patterns is the focus of recent research published in the journal Addictive Behaviors by the collaboration of William Lechner from the Department of Psychological鈥

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海角原创鈥檚 Contributive Legacy to the Assessment of Psychopathology

Nov. 17, 2020

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, MMPI, is a standardized psychometric test that was first published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1943 and quickly became the gold standard for assessing psychopathology. 海角原创 has played a key role鈥

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Professor Awarded for Research on Flint鈥檚 Municipal Takeover

Nov. 16, 2020

A policy of municipal takeover was implemented to help relieve Flint, Michigan, of financial and political hardships in response to the water crisis. Ashley Nickels, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, extensively researched Flint's municipal takeover for鈥

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New Funding Leads to New Full-Body Virtual Reality Lab

Oct. 18, 2020

Two 海角原创 sociology researchers are moving toward gaining insight into how people鈥檚 brains react in a variety of threatening situations using innovative virtual reality (VR) technology funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Army. Josh Pollock鈥

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Stream Ecologist receives $718,000 NSF CAREER Award to Study Trace Metals in Stream Algae

Oct. 7, 2020

海角原创鈥檚 David Costello is passionate about identifying what trace metals lie within Northeast Ohio鈥檚 streams and what the effects of these metals are on the surrounding environment. Costello, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, received a $718,鈥

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Two 海角原创 Psychology Faculty Selected for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Leadership Program

Oct. 5, 2020

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has selected two 海角原创 College of Arts and Sciences faculty members, along with two community clinicians, for , an initiative that will provide funding and鈥

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Researcher Receives Additional Funding for Mental Health Study in Older Ages

Sept. 25, 2020

The National Institute of Health granted additional funding to 海角原创 researcher Karin Coifman, Ph.D., bringing her total award amount to more than $3 million to support her research on mental well-being and鈥

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Anthropology Team Brings Home the 2020 Ig Nobel Award for Materials Science

Sept. 18, 2020

In 2019, a team of researchers in 海角原创鈥檚 Department of Anthropology published its 鈥減rize-winning鈥 research article titled