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Kent State's Wick Poetry Center to Expand Traveling Stanzas Project With $125,000 in New Funding From Knight Foundation
March 16, 2016
The Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University will expand its successful Traveling Stanzas project with $125,000 in new funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. The Knight Arts Challenge funds ideas that…
Read More »Newly Developed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Material Could Enable Advanced Sensors, Kent State Researchers Say
Dec. 22, 2015
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), essentially rubbers with liquid crystal properties, can do a number of fascinating things, especially in the fields of optics, photonics, telecommunications and medicine.
Read More »Bioretention Cells Reduce Total Runoff by 40 Percent in Study
Nov. 19, 2015
Kent State University and Cleveland Metroparks partnered on study of two Parma neighborhoods near West Creek Reservation Rain barrels, rain gardens, and bioretention cells are increasingly used as green infrastructure to capture and slow storm water runoff before it gets to…
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Kent State’s Jordan Italiano Named Finalist for Campbell Trophy and National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete
Nov. 9, 2015
Kent State University football player Jordan Italiano, a senior safety from Canfield, Ohio, has been selected by the National Football Foundation as a 2015 National Scholar-Athlete and finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy presented by Fidelity Investments. Italiano…
Read More »Kent State Researchers Use Digital Devices to Dispense Medications Safely
Oct. 13, 2015
Organizing prescription medications in a traditional pill dispenser is not effective enough when patients are taking up to 20 different drugs seven to nine times a day. Not taking the medication at the right time or taking too much results in 700,000 emergency room visits…
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Kent State Hosts Groundbreaking for New Integrated Sciences Building
Sept. 28, 2015
The groundbreaking for Kent State University’s new Integrated Sciences Building was held Oct. 2 from 2-5 p.m. The event was free and open to the public. Following the groundbreaking, Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences hosted a showcase of science and technology…
Read More »Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute to Celebrate “50 Years of Innovation”
Sept. 16, 2015
The Glenn H. Brown Liquid Crystal Institute® and the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University will host a 50th anniversary celebration of the institute on Friday, Sept. 25, starting at 10 a.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva on the Kent Campus.
Read More »Kent State to Host International Conference on the Humanities
July 2, 2015
Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences will host a four-day international conference on the humanities at the Kent State Hotel and Conference Center at 215 S. Depeyster St. in downtown Kent, Ohio.
Read More »Kent State Professors Use Satellite Imagery to Better Understand the Landscape of the Cambodian Genocide
June 9, 2015
Kent State University recently received a $330,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to use historical satellite imagery and archival research to study landscapes of mass violence in Cambodia during and after the regime of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979.
Read More »Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute Hosts Chirality Symposium June 4-5
May 26, 2015
Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute® will host a symposium called “Chirality at the Nanoscale” on June 4-5 in the Kent Student Center on the Kent Campus.
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