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Todd Diacon, С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, places the President’s Medal on Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy as С»ÆƬÊÓƵ President Beverly Warren watches.

Educator, pioneering scientist and visionary Owen Lovejoy receives the highest С»ÆƬÊÓƵ honor.
 

David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at С»ÆƬÊÓƵ, guides a poetry workshop. Hassler and other Wick Poetry Center staff will lead March for Science participants in a poetry-writing exercise.

At the inaugural , a global demonstration centered in Washington, D.C., a special edition of the Wick Poetry Center's Traveling Stanzas titled Science Stanzas will provide an opportunity for participants to discover the intersection of expressive writing and scientific inquiry.

Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor in С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s Department of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.

С»ÆƬÊÓƵ's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's. 

С»ÆƬÊÓƵ Commencement

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.

С»ÆƬÊÓƵ Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

С»ÆƬÊÓƵ researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

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 С»ÆƬÊÓƵ researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.