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05/19/2020
MME department produces face shields amid COVID-19 pandemic
The frames are made on a plastic injection molding machine. A mold is cut from metal, and molten plastic is then injected into the mold and cooled until solid.
05/16/2020
Outstanding Senior Music Awards Announced
Each year at the College of Creative Arts divisional commencement ceremony, the Department of Music recognizes outstanding graduating seniors.
05/15/2020
Miami University's Center for Chemistry Education helps create Coronavirus Learning Companion
Miami University’s Center for Chemistry Education was part of a collaboration that created the Coronavirus Learning Companion. The goal of the web-based resource, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to help community members better understand the purpose and science behind the COVID-19 public health recommendations.
05/15/2020
Preaching Goes Viral: COVID-19 prompts students to collaborate on a religious response initiative
When classes transitioned online at Miami University in March as a result of COVID-19, Hillel Gray, an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Comparative Religion, initiated a special research initiative called Preaching Goes Viral. Students from his REL 101-Introduction to Religion and REL 286-Global Jewish Civilization classes began compiling and analyzing data to understand the religious responses to the pandemic.
05/14/2020
Miami making hundreds of face shields to help health care workers
Karl Reiff, mechanical and manufacturing engineering laboratory coordinator, injection-molds a headband for a face shield."I am so proud to be part of this team of talented engineers who came forward with ways to manufacture a large number of face shields that can be used by first responders, health care workers, front line staff members or the general public,” Oris said.
05/12/2020
Reframe: Episode 73
How Esports Now Parallel Traditional Sports
05/11/2020
CAS Faculty Tenure and Promotions
The College of Arts and Science proudly announces faculty who have received tenure and/or promotions this spring.
05/11/2020
Abbott named 2020 OAGE Researcher of the Year by the Ohio Association of Gerontology and Education
Katherine (Katy) Abbott, PhD, MGS named 2020 Researcher of the Year by the Ohio Association of Gerontology and Education (OAGE)
05/08/2020
Dr. Lei Kerr loans machinery to local hospital
In March, the hospital began to reach out to the university, asking for any materials, like gloves, masks or lab coats, that could be donated. Following the outreach, Dr. Kerr and her colleagues began to think of ways they could help.