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5 Years Back 25 Years Forward

Join us on Thursday, October 27 for a Society 5.0 event: 5 Years Back 25 Years Forward, a transdisciplinary whirlwind of new ideas from your classmates across the university to flip the way you see the world.

Learn more:
https://csuohio.presence.io/event/60-seconds-lecture

Levin Podcast - Society 5.0

Society is rapidly approaching a fifth stage of development that includes emerging disruptive technologies, such as artificial intelligence, multi-sensory transfer, augmented and virtual realities, advanced robotics, and synthetic forms of life. In this episode we are joined by Dr. Nicholas Zingale of the Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs and Dr. Sasa Drezgic from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Rijeka, Croatia to discuss implications for how the role of technology will continue to shape our everyday experiences as well as aspirational hopes for a better and more prosperous, fair, and equitable future.

EDT Conference, Rijeka - June 24, 2022

Dr. Nicholas Zingale, Associate Professor at Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs, Co-Director of CSU’s TECH Hub, and Co-Director of Human Fusions, recently made a presentation on University activities and work around Society 5.0.

Society 5.0 is a society in which advances in technology will push the limits of our understanding of human experience, reality, intelligence, and consciousness, while confronting the future of work, travel, relationships, governmental systems, legal applications, health care, education, access, equity, and life in general. Learn more. »

Cleveland State University Teams Awarded $225,000 for Technology-based Initiatives for Public Interest

The New America Foundation has selected three faculty-led teams at Cleveland State University (CSU) to fund projects totaling nearly $225,000. These projects will expand next-generation technologists, advocates and policymakers using technology and related expertise to proactively and transparently address critical problems in the public interest. The CSU group is among 31 teams to receive funding in the 2021 Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Challenge. Learn more. »

Graduate Student Roundtable - April 20, 2022

Dr. Nicholas Zingale, Associate Professor at Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs, Co-Director of CSU’s TECH Hub, and Co-Director of Human Fusions, recently discussed University activities and work around Society 5.0 to a group of graduate students.