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Roland Anglin Awarded Funding by Robert Wood Johnson Fdn.
Dr. Roland Anglin, professor and Dean of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, has been awarded a two-year, $250,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) under RWJF's Policies for Action: Research on Housing Policies That Promote Equity program. He will work with members of CSU's Center for Economic Development (CED) to address equity and health in middle neighborhoods. The project is titled, “Investing in the Middle: A New Approach to Deliver on the Promise of Equitable Neighborhood Development.”
Middle neighborhoods are areas in legacy industrial cities like Cleveland that have long been home to middle-class and working-class residents. They are opportunity-rich with place-based resources, but risk falling into a distressed state because of lack of investment. Dr. Anglin and his team will perform actionable research in the areas of strategic investments and policy innovations that have the potential to increase housing affordability and neighborhood stability. Their research and learning will inform the work of policymakers, funders, and community development practitioners across America's industrial heartland.
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Meet CSU's New Faculty
Mehdi Rahmati, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dr. Mehdi Rahmati joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Cleveland State University in August 2020 as an assistant professor. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Rutgers University, New Jersey. His research interests lie primarily in the areas of communications and networking, distributed and connected vehicles, and Internet of Things (IoT) in dynamic and uncertain environments. At Rutgers, his research included the development of a network of autonomous vehicles for water quality monitoring in the Raritan River.
Dr. Rahmati was previously a full-time faculty member in Iran and is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has won several awards, including the best demo award at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON) and the best paper award at 2017 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS). More information about his research can be found here.
Besides his professional duties as a faculty member, he enjoys visiting museums of art and historical places, and reading books. He is particularly inspired by Persian poetry and classics.
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Featured Research Video Series
Team hBN Sunscreen
This month's featured research video highlights CSU's Team hBN Sunscreen, led by Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Geyou Ao and supported by four CSU undergraduate students.
The team is applying the customer discovery process to determine the commercial viability of a novel sunscreen comprised of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) nanosheets in solvents at high concentrations. The nanosheets have enhanced biocompatibility and the high mass potency needed to produce emulsified products at lower material costs while remaining environmentally friendly relative to current products.
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Internal Funding News
Change to USRA Mentor Eligibility
After review by the University Research Council (URC), the eligibility rules for serving as a mentor for a project funded by the Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA) program have been updated. The USRA program provides undergraduate students with a summer learning experience that involves intellectual inquiry and faculty mentoring.
Previously restricted to tenure-track faculty, now USRA projects can be submitted/mentored by any full time faculty member (including lecturers and professors of practice) who can serve as effective research mentors and can offer a meaningful, engaged learning experience for students.
The proposal deadline for most internal funding programs is February 1:
Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA)
Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA)
Faculty Research and Development (FRD)
Faculty Scholarship Initiative (FSI)
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CSU Scholar News
Hanz Richter, Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Hanz Richter is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MCE) and a founding member of the CSU Center for Human-Machine Systems (CHMS). He joined CSU in 2004 after a post-doctoral fellowship at NASA Stennis Space Center. Dr. Richter's research interests are in the broad fields of Dynamic Systems and Control, both for their theoretical aspects and cross-discipline applications.
Dr. Richter's research in energy-aware robotics, cyber-physical systems, biomechatronics and aerospace propulsion has been funded primarily by the NSF and NASA. His work has been published in Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and IEEE Transactions on Robotics. He is also the author of Advanced Control of Turbofan Engines, published by Springer. His students have gone on to pursue rewarding careers at NASA, Case Western Reserve University, Intuitive Surgical, Bendix and Rockwell Automation, among others.
Dr. Richter and his students are currently working on robot motion control systems and hardware that can achieve significant savings in energy consumption, smart exercise and rehabilitation machines, and energy-efficient methods to operate hybrid aeronautical propulsion systems.
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Inspired Creativity
Matt Jackson-McCabe: Jewish Christianity
Dr. Matt Jackson-McCabe, a professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Comparative Religion, has published a new book tracing the development of the concept of a Jewish Christianity from its origins in the English Enlightenment to early twenty-first-century scholarship. In the book, titled Jewish Christianity: The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide, he demonstrates that Jewish Christianity is a modern concept that is the legacy of Christian Apologetics, a branch of theology focused on the intellectual defense of the Christian religion. Created by Christian freethinkers of the Enlightenment era, the concept has functioned to isolate a Christian religion from the Jewish culture of Jesus and the apostles. Dr. Jackson-McCabe argues that the concept of Jewish Christianity should be left behind, as it creates problems in the historical study of Jewish and Christian antiquity.
He has also published a recent column on the Yale University Press blog discussing shifting paradigms in the study of Christian origins.
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News from the Technology Transfer Office
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Commercialization Update
The CSU Research Corporation held a Board Meeting on December 1, 2020, during which two new directors were elected to the board. Mark T. Czaja, Chief Innovation Officer at the Parker Hannifin Corporation, and Todd E. Kooken, Director of Machine R&D at The Lincoln Electric Company, were unanimously elected to serve on the CSURC Board. Jeff Brancato, Executive Director of the Northeast Ohio CyberConsortium (NEOCC) and Carlos Grodsinsky, Chief Operating Officer and Sr. Vice President of Technology at ZIN Technologies, were re-elected to the Board. It was also announced that CSURC will be supporting a new position as part of the recent EDA Build to Scale award received by CSU. The new position will manage the Entrepreneurial Manufacturer Digitization Support (EMDiS) Center of Excellence and will also lead outreach and engagement efforts to faculty and industry partners. |
I-Corps@Ohio Info Sessions
Are you considering an application to compete for the $12,500 grant and participating in the 2021 I-Corps@Ohio cohort? Maybe you are just curious what I-Corps@Ohio is all about.
You have until February 1, 2021 at 11:59 PM to submit your application for funding provided by the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) to be selected to participate in the 2021 cohort. Information sessions will be held in December and January.
December 16, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
January 7, 2021 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
January 20, 2021 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The RFP can be viewed here, and Jack Kraszewski, Director of the Technology Transfer Office, can assist with forming an I-Corps team.
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Scholarship of Note
Research and Scholarship News from Across Campus
| Ping Deng and Vickie Gallagher's Article Recognized as a Highly Cited Paper |
A recent article by Dr. Ping Deng and Dr. Vickie Gallagher was ranked as a Highly Cited Paper by Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), putting it in the top 1% of the academic field of Economics & Business worldwide. Both faculty are professors in the Department of Management and Dr. Deng is also the Monte Ahuja Endowed Chair of Global Business. The paper, titled “International Strategies of Emerging Market Multinationals: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective,” was co-authored by Professor Yang Liu (Zhejiang University) and Professor Xiaojie Wu (Guangdong University of Technology), who were visiting scholars at CSU during the 2016-17 academic year.
| Katie Clonan Roy's Migration Narratives |
Dr. Katie Clonan-Roy, an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Foundations (C&F), has co-authored a new book titled Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions. Migration Narratives presents an ethnographic study of an American town that recently became home to thousands of Mexican migrants, with the Mexican population rising from 125 in 1990 to slightly under 10,000 in 2016. The book documents the complexities that migrants and hosts experience and suggests ways in which policy-makers, researchers, educators and communities can respond intelligently to politically-motivated stories that oversimplify migration across the contemporary world.
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The Office of Research wishes all faculty, staff, and
students a peaceful and joyful holiday season. |
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