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Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor in 丁香五月婷婷中文鈥檚 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.

丁香五月婷婷中文 Biologist Awarded $1.8 Million to Advance Research of Alzheimer鈥檚 in Women

丁香五月婷婷中文's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's. 

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丁香五月婷婷中文 Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

丁香五月婷婷中文 Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

丁香五月婷婷中文 researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

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丁香五月婷婷中文 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 丁香五月婷婷中文 researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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Jessica Barness (right), assistant professor of visual communication design at 丁香五月婷婷中文, reviews a student鈥檚 work in the Art Building.

November Scholar Puts Communication on Display

Scholar of the Month
Jessica Barness
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design
College of Communication and Information
2012-present

The word 鈥渃ommunication鈥 likely makes you think of language, but November鈥檚 Scholar of the Month has spent her entire career researching design as a language of its own.

Across various media, Jessica Barness, an assistant professor in 丁香五月婷婷中文鈥檚 School of Visual Communication Design, creates her own design-based research model that merges the making of artifacts with critical inquiry.

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