Office of Research Newsletter

September 2024

Dr. Prabaha Sikder, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MCE), has received has received $3.2 million in funding over five years from the National Institutes of Health for a project titled, “Multi-functional 3D Printed Dental Implants for Preventing Peri-implantitis.” The research focuses on developing a unique multi-functional 3D printed dental implant that will effectively minimize peri-implantitis, i.e., dental implant-related infection incidences for patients needing artificial tooth/teeth. This unique infection-resistant and bioactive dental implant can also be tailored according to patient defects and will relieve patients from the aftermaths of infections, such as surgical pain, repeated clinic visits for treatment, prolonged recovery time, reliability on antibiotics, and added therapy costs. Read More »

Undergraduate Summer Research Award Poster Session – September 19

The Office of Research is pleased to invite you to visit CSU undergraduates as they present their research and scholarly activity at our annual Undergraduate Research Poster Session taking place on Thursday, September 19 from 12:00-3:00 pm in the Student Center Atrium.

This event is the culmination of the 2024 Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA) programs, and 72 Cleveland State undergraduate students, including McNair scholars, will share their research and creative activity through print posters and discussions. Read More »

CSU Physics/EE Honors Alum Earns PhD, Joins LANL

Marie Blatnik ‘15 (BS Physics Honors, BS Electrical Engineering Honors) has successfully defended her PhD thesis in Physics, titled “Creating the Electric and Magnetic Fields for the nEDM@SNS Experiment” at the California Institute of Technology. She has joined Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) as a postdoctoral scholar, where she will develop a technique to use ultracold neutrons as an actinide surface probe.

CSU's Honors Physics and Math Major Doing Research at CERN /EE

Double Honors Physics and Math major, Grace Miller, spent the last summer at the NSF’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in Nuclear and Particle Physics at Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory/Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

As a part of the REU program, Grace spent 6 weeks of the summer in Switzerland working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), the home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In her research, Grace was measuring spin and orbital angular momentum entanglement in top quark decays produced by proton-proton collisions at the LHC.

Marie and Grace both participated in CSU’s Undergraduate Summer Research Award program.

Call for Submissions from NEO Businesses to "Reverse Pitch" Challenge at Innovation Day

The Northeast Ohio Public Universities Research Alliance is accepting requests from businesses across the region to bring some of your pressing challenges to present as part of a selected group of companies at Innovation Day 2024.

The "Reverse Pitch" approach is designed to allow companies to build awareness of your business to and potentially forge productive connections with a diverse audience comprising of faculty, staff and students from each of the NEO public universities and representatives from various industries. To submit a brief proposal, please follow this link.