The Clinical Health Sciences and Wellness (CHSW) facility will comprise three wings connected by a wellness ribbon, the main corridor connecting three academic programs, including a new masters of medical science/physician associate studies program, and three clinics.
Now in her third year at Miami, geneticist and computational biologist Meixia Zhas has a recent grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a new major publication published this week, and a new baby.
The Myaamia Center's National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages was recently awarded a $349,442 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant.
$6 million from the Governors Emergency Education Relief (GEER) fund will support the Ohio School Wellness Initiative to aid mental health and substance use supports for Ohios K-12 students and staff. The project team is led by Cricket Meehan, director of Miami's Center for School-Based Mental Health Programs.
The total extramural funding received in FY 2020 was $26,951,278, an increase of more than 10% over FY 2019, according to Mike Crowder, interim vice president for research and innovation.
"Zombie fires" and burning of fire-resistant vegetation are new features driving Arctic fires with strong consequences for the global climate warn international fire scientists in a commentary published this week in Nature Geoscience. "We need new approaches to wildland fire fighting to save the Arctic there's no time to lose."
Alicia Knoedler will become Miami Universitys vice president for research and innovation (VPRI) on Nov. 1. She is the former executive associate vice president for research and executive director of the Center for Research Program Development and Enrichment at the University of Oklahoma.
"To my mind, the best way to mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment is to continue to fight for universal voting rights and voter access to make it easier, not harder, for all citizens to cast their ballots," says Kimberly Hamlin, whose new book "Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener" tells the remarkable true story of the fallen woman who reinvented herself and helped secure Congressional passage of the 19th Amendment.
Crustacean genes might shed light on the origin of wings in insects, a new study by Yoshi Tomoyasu and Courtney Clark-Hatchel (Miami '12, Ph.D. '18) finds.
