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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.
- 06/04/2018 THE BIOLOGY OF SUPERHEROES
- 05/09/2018 HONORS STUDENTS PITCH INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO LAKE ERIE’S BIGGEST PROBLEMS
- 05/07/2018 BIOMIMICRY FELLOW COLLEEN UNSWORTH PRESENTS TO EDUCATORS AT THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
- 05/02/2018 UA BRINGS BIOMIMICRY TO STUDENTS AT RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
- 04/30/2018 BIOMIMICRY RESEARCHERS SPEAK AT GREEN BUILDING CONFERENCE
- 04/28/2018 BIOMIMICRY FELLOW STEPHEN HOWE TRAVELS TO EUROPE TO PRESENT AT KNORR-BREMSE GROUP
- 03/22/2018 HEDGEMON WINS $15,000 IN INAUGURAL CWRU STARTUP COMPETITION
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