College of Arts and Sciences

Researcher Receives Five-Year Grant From the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health
½ÄÏÌåÓý State's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's.

½ÄÏÌåÓý State Prof Weighs in on Liberal Arts Degrees and a Future Career as CEO
GoodCall talked with professors around the country about the use of liberal arts degrees and the skills that students use as a springboard to the next step in their education and career path.

½ÄÏÌåÓý State Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence
½ÄÏÌåÓý researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.
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.
CACM Director Patrick Coy Publishes New Book Chapter
CACM Associate Professor Landon Hancock Publishes a New Edited Book

½ÄÏÌåÓý State Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data
½ÄÏÌåÓý State Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.