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Thijs Heus, NOAA, U. Wisconsin Team on Atmospheric Research
Dr. Thijs Heus, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, has been awarded $216,875 over three years via the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program. Dr. Heus will partner with Dr. David Turner from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) and Dr. Tim Wagner from the University of Wisconsin’s Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC). Their project is titled “Characterizing Land-Atmosphere Interactions Using ARM SGP Observations.”
Dr. Heus studies cloud formation and atmospheric flow by developing high-resolution computer models known as large eddy simulations (LES). For this project, he will run highly detailed numerical model simulations of the weather over the Southern Great Plains measurement site and, by comparing the simulated data with observed data, will develop improvements for weather and climate research models.
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Meet CSU's New Faculty
Hiram López, Mathematics and Statistics
Dr. Hiram López joined CSU as an assistant professor in the department of Mathematics and Statistics in January 2019. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN) in Mexico City. During his Ph.D. studies, he received a Swiss Excellence Scholarship Award at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, and he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Clemson University from 2016 to 2018.
Dr. López’s research focuses on two main areas: mathematics and computer science. In mathematics, he studies coding theory from an algebraic point of view as well as network coding. For coding theory, he uses mainly commutative algebra tools. In network coding, he uses results of combinatorics, optimization, graph theory and algebraic geometry, and in computer science, he is interested in the theory and the applications of pattern recognition of images. Click here to see a list of his publications.
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Featured Research Video
Food Safety Research
Research to reduce contamination by pathogens such as E. coli, Salmonella, and Listeria during food processing is the subject of this month’s featured research video. The multidisciplinary team includes Dr. Chandra Kothapalli from the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and Drs. Daniel Munther and Parthasarathy Srinivasan from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
The team’s goal is to provide the food industry with better data on how wash systems can be improved to reduce cross contamination and make cleaning systems more effective without increasing chemical use.
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Research Rankings
CSU Research Expenditures Maintain Record Level
Research expenditures at CSU remained level at $84 million in 2018, tying the largest annual total in our history, as reported in the recently released NSF Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey.
The high caliber of research performed at Cleveland State occurs because of our outstanding faculty, who are dedicated to teaching, research, and service to the University. This is reflected in CSU ranking #166 nationally in total R&D expenditures, and remaining #5 among Ohio institutions. In terms of federal expenditures, CSU's $55 million ranked #145 nationally and also #5 in Ohio.
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CSU Scholar News
Gwendolyn Majette, Law
Gwendolyn Roberts Majette is an associate professor in the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and a member of the Center for Health Law and Policy (CHLP). Professor Majette’s scholarship focuses on patient rights, delivery system reform, health disparities, global health, and health care reform. Her scholarship has real-world impact, having been used by the United States Commission for Civil Rights, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the World Health Organization, and leading health law texts.
She recently published “Controlling Health Care Costs under the ACA – Chaos, Uncertainty and Transition with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and the Independent Payment Advisory Board”in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethic. This interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal has the second highest impact factor in the world for health law journals.
Prof. Majette’s forthcoming work includes a chapter in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Health Law Opinions, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. The chapter considers Linton v. Commissioner of Health and Environment, a class action lawsuit brought by two elderly women against the Tennessee Commissioner of Health alleging violation of the Medicaid Act and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Her opinion considers the intersectionality of race, gender, class and age on a patient’s admission to nursing homes. It also evaluates the state’s regulatory policies from an economic justice perspective.
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Inspired Creativity
Cleveland State University Jazz Showcase @ BOP STOP
An evening of jazz featuring small combos and large ensembles from Cleveland State University is on tap at BOP STOP at the Music Settlement on December 2 at 7:30 pm. The Cleveland State University Jazz Showcase will include original arrangements as well as plenty of jazz standards.
The bands are led by Joe Miller, a Cleveland State University alum and the lead trumpet chair at Playhouse Square; bassist Alfredo Guerrieri, a CSU alum and applied faculty member in the School of Music; and saxophonist Dr. John Perrine, associate professor and director of the School of Music, Coordinator of Jazz Studies, and Director of Jazz Ensembles at CSU. BOP STOP is located in the Ohio City neighborhood at 2920 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44113. Tickets can be purchased here.
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News from the Technology Transfer Office
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Commercialization Updates
The joint Cleveland State / Kent State TeCK Fund held its Selection Committee Meeting October 15th, 2019. CSU’s Dr. William Matcham, an assistant professor in the School of Nursing, was selected for funding for his project titled Improved Health Outcomes of Populations through Engagement (I-Hope) Community Services: A Community Health Worker Mobile Productivity Application. Dr. Matcham’s business plan focuses on providing a front line system to community health workers to allow them to assist medically underserved communities more efficiently.
Contact Jack Kraszewski for information regarding the TeCK Fund and technology transfer.
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2020 I-Corps@Ohio RFP
The I-Corps@Ohio program has announced the release of the 2020 Request for Proposals for the sixth year of the program. I-Corps@Ohio incorporates Lean Startup, Customer Discovery and Business Model Canvas methodologies to accelerate the commercialization of technologies from Ohio universities, colleges, and research institutions while expanding the business acumen and networks of faculty and students across the state.
Applications are now being accepted via the I-Corps online portal. Applications must be submitted by January 21, 2020.
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Research Events
Public Health and Health Disparities Faculty Meetup December 6
As part of our mission to enhance collaboration across the University and promote engaged research activities, the Office of Research launched a new series of faculty meetups for the 2019-2020 academic year. Meetup topics can be found here.
On December 6 at 12:00 p.m., Dr. Beth Domholdt, a professor and Director of the School of Health Sciences, will lead the meetup discussion on the topic of public health and health disparities. All meetups are held in PH-200, the Office of Research conference room.
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Digital CSU’s Student Digital Research Showcase
November 26, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in the Berkman Hall Atrium, First Floor
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Seminars are held at 11:30 a.m. in Washkewicz Hall 405
December 12: Lydia Kisly, Case Western Reserve University
Mathematics Colloquiums are held at 3:00 p.m. in Rhodes Tower 1516
November 15: Phuong Ngo, Cleveland State University
November 22: Felice Manganiello, Clemson University
RCN-SEES: Predictive Modeling Network for Sustainable Human-Building Ecosystems Preparation and Network Sustainment Meeting
December 9, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Washkewicz Hall 405
Ohio Archaeology Symposium hosted by the Department of Criminology, Anthropology, and Sociology (CAS)
November 21, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Berkman Hall Auditorium
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College Highlight Series
Scholarship in the College of Education and Human Services
Cleveland State University’s faculty members are highly regarded scholars who are influential in their fields, and this new feature in our newsletter will periodically highlight faculty accomplishments across CSU’s academic colleges. This month, we are highlighting faculty in the College of Education and Human Services (CEHS), who have recently written a number of peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals.
- Dr. Kelly Yu-Hsin Liao (Department of Counseling, Administration, Supervision, and Adult Learning, or CASAL), had an article titled “The Misunderstood Schema of the Strong Black Woman” published in Psychology of Women Quarterly.
- Dr. Laura Northrop (Teacher Education) was published in two journals. Her article “Who Gets to Read What?” appeared in Reading Research Quarterly, and the article “AYP Status, Urbanicity, and Sector: School-to-School Variation in Instruction” appeared in Urban Education.
- Drs. Grace Huang (Teacher Education), Ron Abate (Teacher Education), and Adam Voight (Curriculum & Foundations) co-authored the paper “School-wide teacher choice driven action research,” which appeared in the International Journal of Education and Development.
- Dr. Joanne Goodell (Teacher Education) co-authored the article "Decisions to Enter and Continue in the Teaching Profession" with Dr. Michael Horvath (Psychology) and Dr. Bill Kosteas (Economics), which was published in Teaching and Teacher Education.
Congratulations to all!
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Please share with us important news or updates on your research, scholarly, or creative activities. Updates may be related to a paper that has been accepted for publication in a high-impact journal, a book you've just published, your work that will be exhibited at a prominent institution, or other updates you wish to share with our office. Send details to j.yard@csuohio.edu and d.j.simon@csuohio.edu.
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