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Graphene, considered the most exciting new material under study in the world of nanotechnology, just got even more interesting, according to a new study by a group of researchers at the Â鶹ӰԺ.

Fourteen graduate students from the Engineering for Developing Communities program at the Â鶹ӰԺ traveled abroad this summer to gain field experience in community development.

A new Â鶹ӰԺ study indicates a major climate oscillation in the Southern Hemisphere that is expected to intensify in the coming decades will likely cause increased wildfire activity in the southern half of South America.

In 1991, when Punam Chatterjee was 20 months old, a drunk driver careened into her parents' car. Her leg was shattered, as was her father's. Her mother lost an eye. Although she was too young to remember it, she has since learned that while her parents convalesced, nurses volunteered to comfort her and read to her.

Researchers at the Â鶹ӰԺ are helping develop the next generation of the Internet -- a more mobile version -- and the campus's Office of Information Technology is using this new technology to provide wireless service on campus buses and in some labs and classrooms.

Bacteria from fecal material -- in particular, dog fecal material -- may constitute the dominant source of airborne bacteria in Cleveland's and Detroit's wintertime air, says a new Â鶹ӰԺ study.

A kitchen bustling with chefs trained in knife skills and soup making, preparing foods to perfection in large rotisseries and using sous vide -- a French technique for gently cooking vacuum-packed edibles in a water bath -- could easily be part of the famous Cordon Bleu culinary institute as it is Housing and Dining Services at the Â鶹ӰԺ.

A woman returning home a little after 11 p.m. on Aug. 16 told Â鶹ӰԺ Police that she had been robbed at gunpoint as she was gathering items out of her car in a parking garage at 2301 Pearl St. in Â鶹ӰԺ.

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has named Douglas Duncan as the 2011 recipient of the Richard H. Emmons Award for excellence in college astronomy teaching.

The Â鶹ӰԺ's newest residence hall, Williams Village North, is welcoming students this week for the first time, many of whom will be learning about the building's sustainable design through two new Residential Academic Programs, or RAPs, that are housed in the residence hall.