Schools
University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, OH·Public
2 labs on PI Pages. It spends $25M a year on research and awards 75 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 15,195: 12,664 undergraduates, 2,531 graduate
- Postdocs
- 8
- Faculty
- 488 full-time
- Campus
- Residential
Labs here
Farhina Haque
Engineering
Model the dielectric (insulating) properties of the interphase layer around nanoparticles in polymer nanocomposites as a function of interphase thickness and nanoparticle volume fraction.
Jae-Won Choi
Materials Science
Explain how silica-filled rubber in tire tread compounds performs by modeling the complex heterogeneous dynamics inside these filled materials.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.
Engineering$11M
Physical sciences$10M
Life sciences$2M
Outside science$823K
Psychology$329K
Earth sciences$269K