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Students take research into their own hands
Interdisciplinary Symposium was brainchild of two sociology graduate students and individuals across campus worked together to make it happen.
04/11/2019
online newsroom
Trivia Man: UA alum, employee to appear on ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’
Derek Daily will be a featured contestant on Thursday, April 11, at 3 p.m. on ABC.
04/10/2019
online newsroom,Honors College
Akron Rocket League brings home national championship
Rocket League is a vehicular action soccer game in which three players control rocket-powered cars to hit a ball into an opponent’s goal to score points.
04/10/2019
Press Releases,online newsroom
Akron Law students to compete for $5,000 in cash prizes at April 6 intramural trial competition
Eight teams comprised of two advocates and two witnesses from The University of Akron School of Law have signed up to compete for $5,000 in total cash prize money at the school’s 10th annual intramura...
04/1/2019
School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering,online newsroom,Department of Polymer Science
Polymer professor co-authors review paper on effects of nanomaterials on the Earth system
Appearing in the publication’s March 29 issue, the article co-authored by Dr. Nita Sahai, can be read online.
03/29/2019
online newsroom,College of Engineering and Polymer Science
Student rocketeers prepare for launch in NASA competition
The Akronauts, our student rocket-design team, is one of four university teams from Ohio chosen to compete.
03/28/2019
online newsroom
Esports Team to represent UA at nationals for second straight season
Members of our Akron Rocket League headed to NCAA Final Four.
03/25/2019
College of Health Professions,College of Engineering and Polymer Science,BME engineering
Designing independence: Student engineers modify cars for children
The young drivers tested their Power Wheels vehicles at an Adapt-A-Car Inclusion Day event.
03/22/2019
School of Education,online newsroom
Barker Center for Economic Education celebrates new location with open house
Now located in a state-of-the-art space in Zook Hall, the center will continue its mission to advance financial and economic education.
03/18/2019
Press Releases,online newsroom
Federal judge urges lawyers, law students to give state courts their due
Jeffrey S. Sutton, a former Ohio Solicitor General who has served on the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals since 2003, believes that state constitutions should be the avenue of first choice for lega...
03/17/2019
