Global Reach
10 Questions With Gokarna Sharma Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« the Contact Tracing App
Apple and Google partnered in early April to create a new smartphone app that uses Bluetooth to track coronavirus cases. Using a technology called contact tracing, the app alerts a user when they come in contact with someone who has been positively diagnosed with COVID-19. Gokarna Sharma, assistant professor in Computer Science, recently answered 10 questions about the new app based on his professional opinion. Sharma is experienced in algorithms, blockchain and smart technologies such as this.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Professors and Students Team Up With Community Groups to Provide Helping Hands
Two Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« professors partnered with the Summit County Juvenile Court and Hands of Gratitude over the summer to teach juveniles how to assemble prosthetic hands for children in Central America and were featured in the Akron Beacon Journal.
Epidemiology Professor Featured on Mindscape Podcast
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University College of Public Health professor Tara Smith, Ph.D., was featured on Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast to talk about the novel coronavirus (and its associated disease, COVID-19) pandemic. Smith gives insight on what measures are useful and which are probably not.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Magazine: Picture This
Each year, Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« students participate in off-campus study away/study abroad programs and internships in locations across the country and around the world. And they take photos—lots and lots of photos.
Renowned Marine Scientist Michael Beck to Discuss Coastal Conservation on March 4
Renowned marine scientist Michael W. Beck, Ph.D., will discuss the importance of coastal conservation at a free lecture on March 4. Beck, a research professor in the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, focuses on conserving our coastlines in an effort to reduce the risks of storm surges and flooding to property, people and our planet and will speak at 7 p.m. March 4 in Auditorium 101 in the Science & Nursing Building at Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University at Stark.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Biologist Joins Tennessee, Toledo Colleagues to Study Arctic Climate Change Effects
In early February, scientists reported the hottest temperature on record in Antarctica: 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Studies show climate change is disproportionately affecting the poles, warming them faster than anywhere else on Earth, and raising questions about what kinds of changes we can expect in arctic ecosystems as temperatures rise. 
A Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University biologist has teamed up with some colleagues in an inter-institutional effort to answer some of those questions.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Research Review: Researchers End Ongoing Beluga Whale Debate
A new collaborative study between researchers at Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University and Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) has confirmed a way to determine the age of beluga whales - a topic that has been the center of much debate.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Research Review 2019: Growing Global Citizens
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« hosts STARTALK Foreign Language Academy, where 20 accepted high school students in Northeast Ohio are immersed into either Russian or Chinese language and culture. The Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies received federal funding for the 12th year to host this academy on campus.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Research Review: Shrub Encroachers Friend or Foe?
Ecosystems in today's world are responding to a wide variety of environmental changes. David Ward, Ph.D., the Art and Margaret Herrick endowed professor of Plant Biology in Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îȫ’s Department of Biological Sciences, and international colleagues and graduate students want to know what happens when these changes interact?
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Research Review: Cutting Edge Archaeology
The Eren Lab at Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University’s Department of Anthropology is among the university’s busiest and most prolific. Because of the lab and guidance from Metin Eren, Ph.D., two students have achieved great accomplishments in archaeology.