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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.
- 07/17/2019
- Spider Uses Web As Slingshot To Ensnare Prey, Scientists Find
- 07/01/2019 University fills 26 full-time faculty positions in areas of distinction
- 06/27/2019 Biomimicry certificate for undergraduate students launches at University of Akron
- 06/26/2019 UA research team probes solution to control Lake Erie’s algae blooms
- 06/21/2019
- Innovation Imitating Life
- 06/13/2019
- Lake effect: Four big Erie Hack ideas that can help keep our lake Great
- 06/10/2019
- Super speedy spider hurls itself at prey using web as slingshot
- 06/04/2019
- Six of the most extreme jobs in science
- 05/23/2019
- No Venom, No Problem: This Spider Uses a Slingshot to Catch Prey
- 05/20/2019
- Dispatch from Tahiti
- 05/20/2019
- Cleveland Water Alliance wins $15,000 Great Lakes Protection award
- 05/14/2019
- Spider Uses Web As Slingshot To Ensnare Prey, Scientists Find
- 05/13/2019
- The Curious Case of the Spring-Loaded Web
- 04/17/2019
- How to Build a Bird’s Nest
- 04/12/2019
- NeuroArt Contest highlights student creativity
- 04/02/2019
- Peers recognize Dr. Ali Dhinojwala’s research efforts in adhesion
- 03/26/2019
- Photo of the Day: Celebrating World Water Day
- 03/25/2019
- Akron Company Tests Hedgehog Quill Tech To Prevent Concussions
- 03/01/2019
- Blowing the Doors Off the Microbial World
- 02/25/2019 Three of UA's own honored for strides in STEM fields
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