More than two decades of research on a project led by a Kent State University professor has resulted in a new discovery in nuclear physics that is being celebrated nationally. The breakthrough came from work done by Brookhaven National Laboratory’s STAR Collaboration, an international group of hundreds of scientists and engineers who conduct nuclear research using the laboratory’s Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Zhangbu Xu, Ph.D., Kent State physics professor in the College of Sciences and Humanities, is the leader of th...

Kent State University’s School of Fashion welcomes two new faculty members whose experience spans fashion entrepreneurship, sustainability, supply chains, textile education, biomaterials and emerging technologies. Ashley Chenn joins the School of Fashion with experience in communications, technology, marketing, sourcing and fashion entrepreneurship. Chenn earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communications and began her career in technology, working in social media and content marketing for Adobe Marketing Cloud. She later led marketing for a Shanghai-based supply chain sustainabilit...