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- 12/12/2022
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UA researchers’ focus on tire traction leads to investigation of polar bear paws
Research investigates what makes it possible for some arctic animals to walk and run across the ice so effortlessly and gracefully without slipping and falling.
- 09/04/2021
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UA professor putting $1 million biomimicry grant to work — on snakes
Crain's Cleveland interviews Dr. Henry Astley, assistant professor in both the Department of Biology and the School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, about the ways in which he plans to use his five-year NSF CAREER grant to expand biomimicry research on snake locomotion.
- 09/04/2021
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Great Lakes Biomimicry merges with the Ohio Aerospace Institute
Will continue to support innovation by looking to natural systems for solutions to current challenges in aviation.
- 05/20/2021
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UA announces the launch of AkronArts
The bold plan calls for re-imagining University arts programs for community revitalization. - 05/20/2021
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UA researchers resolve fundamental issues explaining gecko adhesion
The recent work, “Direct evidence of acid-base interactions in gecko adhesion,” has addressed the confounding evidence that has been difficult to explain since the discovery of van der Waals forces controlling adhesion.
- 12/12/2022 UA researchers’ focus on tire traction leads to investigation of polar bear paws
- 09/04/2021
- UA professor putting $1 million biomimicry grant to work — on snakes
- 09/04/2021
- Great Lakes Biomimicry merges with the Ohio Aerospace Institute
- 05/20/2021 UA announces the launch of AkronArts
- 05/20/2021 UA researchers resolve fundamental issues explaining gecko adhesion
- 03/23/2021 Biomimicry professor receives prestigious NSF CAREER Award
- 08/03/2020 Society dedicated to the study of caves honors professor for a lifetime of achievement
- 07/09/2020
- Scientists look to bird feathers for printing colors
- 07/07/2020
- Mussel-inspired polymer glue sticks to wet surfaces
- 06/01/2020 University of Akron’s polymer program generates successful spin-out companies
- 05/27/2020 Dr. Hunter King, physicist and polymer scientist, draws inspiration from birds and beetles
- 05/26/2020 Polymer research has enduring effect on world: Part 4 — biomimicry
- 05/20/2020 STEM Families Virtual Nature Walk
- 05/13/2020
- Antibody testing and the future of COVID-19 treatment
- 04/25/2020
- The phenomenon of the appearance of animals in large numbers occurred on Earth
- 04/16/2020
- Professor Hazel Barton: Understanding how viruses spread
- 04/09/2020
- In pursuit of a killer fungus
- 04/02/2020
- Locust Plague, Presidential Cabinet, Biomimicry
- 03/17/2020
- Why Birds are the World's Best Engineers
- 03/06/2020 How biomechanics research led to a hairbrush inspired by a cat tongue
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