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Hedgemon wins $15,000 in inaugural CWRU startup competition
The money will be used toward creating a full helmet designed to prevent concussions and other brain injuries to football players.
03/22/2018
online newsroom
UA students to give back this Spring Break
Groups of UA students are dedicating themselves to volunteer work over their Spring Break.
03/22/2018
School of Nutrition/Dietetics,online newsroom,College of Health Professions
UA and Akron RubberDucks team up for Home Run Recipe Challenge
This second annual event is aimed at healthy ballpark options during National Nutrition Month.
03/19/2018
Honors College,ECE engineering,College of Engineering and Polymer Science
The ‘next big invention’ — the engineering of a Williams Honors Scholar
Jade Reese finds a collaborative environment in which to learn and use her newfound engineering expertise to help others.
03/16/2018
ME engineering,College of Engineering and Polymer Science,BME engineering
Streamlined transport system a winner for athletes
A one-of-a-kind portable storage device designed and built by student engineers makes it much easier for athletes in the Adaptive Sports Program of Ohio to get their gear to games.
03/12/2018
Press Releases,School of Law,online newsroom
Trial advocacy team advances to national finals after regional win
Law schools from all over the country compete regionally for an invitation to the national American Association for Justice Student Trial Advocacy Competition in April.
03/12/2018
NEOMFA,English,Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences
Graduate Student Noor Hindi publishes in Adroit Journal
Congratulations to Noor Hindi, a UA English graduate student in the NEOMFA program in creative writing, for her recent publication! Her lyric essay, "American Beings," appears in The Adroit Journal.
03/8/2018
online newsroom,Libraries
Significant airship collection lands on campus
New York airship collector Alan Gross donates substantial collection to Archival Services.
03/7/2018
online newsroom,ECE engineering,College of Engineering and Polymer Science
Ocius Technologies, UA and Case Western Team receives $1.5M research grant from DARPA
Researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are part of team.
03/5/2018
School of Music,online newsroom,Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences
JazzFest 2018 will feature a tribute to Roland Paolucci
The founder of UA's Jazz Program, Roland Paolucci, will be honored with a commissioned work during JazzFest 2018.
02/28/2018
