College of Arts and Sciences

Walk This Way
Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger helps develop new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Walk this Way
Professor Robin Selinger of ½ÄÏÌåÓý State’s Liquid Crystal Institute® helps develop new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Race, Stress and its Impact on Infant Mortality Among Black Infants
Ideastream® talks with ½ÄÏÌåÓý Psychology Professor Angela Neal-Barnett about the relationship between racial stress in black women and ways to reduce the stress before it affects pregnancy.

½ÄÏÌåÓý State Establishes New School of Peace and Conflict Studies
½ÄÏÌåÓý’s Center for Applied Conflict Management is transforming into a new School of Peace and Conflict Studies this month.

Acting too White: ½ÄÏÌåÓý State Psychologist Explains How the Accusation Causes Anxiety
½ÄÏÌåÓý State Professor Angela Neal-Barnett shares her Acting White Accusation research with WKYC-TV and Anxiety.org.

The Missing Link Between College Renters and Landlords
A ½ÄÏÌåÓý State entrepreneur creates a website and an upcoming app that connects renters to landlords.

½ÄÏÌåÓý State Professor Earns Main Street ½ÄÏÌåÓý's Volunteer of the Year Award

½ÄÏÌåÓý State 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 ½ÄÏÌåÓý researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.