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Now ACCEPTing Students: Kent State Professors Receive HRSA Funding
Nov. 10, 2021
Whether you are attempting to master the art of cooking or trying your hand at DIY home improvement, chances are books, blogs and articles have been written by many qualified experts to help guide the way. Scholars spend countless hours reading page after page - chapter after…
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New Collaboration to Provide Real-Time Data Exchanges for Astrophysicists
Sept. 21, 2021
What happens when two neutron stars collide? What extreme densities and temperatures are reached? What new states of matter exist within the core of a neutron star? One Kent State College of Arts and Sciences theoretical astrophysicist, Veronica Dexheimer, associate professor in…
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Quality of Life: Researchers Exploring Treatments for Spinal Cord Injured Patients
Sept. 7, 2021
A research group in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University is searching for potential treatments for men who have suffered spinal cord injuries and hope to regain bladder control and sexual functions.
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Researchers Take a Closer Look at Nitrogen in the Chihuahuan Desert, New Mexico
Aug. 17, 2021
Researchers from Kent State University and the University of New Mexico determined how nitrogen-fixing plants and soil microbes contribute to the overall nitrogen availability in the Chihuahuan desert in New Mexico.
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Art and Hope Intersect: Kent State and University of Arizona Launch Global Vaccine Poem Project
June 23, 2021
Update: The Global Vaccine Poem project is finding success with more than 1,900 submissions so far from more than 100 countries. The project is a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center and the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
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Patterns, Populations And Podcasts: Computational Ecologist Receives Prestigious Early-Career Award from NSF
May 12, 2021
Recent funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has given interdisciplinary researchers the opportunity to help drive our understanding of patterns in nature when bringing together big data sources collected in different ways.
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Chemistry Professor Continues ‘Highly Cited Researcher’ Streak
April 20, 2021
There are just a handful of chemists worldwide with h-indices above 200. The h-indices of chemists awarded the Nobel Prize during the last five years range from about 30 to 160. Mietek Jaroniec, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has an h-index of 125,…
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Kent State Awarded $3.5 Million Choose Ohio First Grants
April 5, 2021
The state of Ohio and the Ohio Department of Higher Education announced that Kent State University has been awarded Choose Ohio First grants totaling $3.5 million to support students in the critical fields of science (including health professions), technology, engineering and…
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Alcohol Consumption Increases During Pandemic
Nov. 19, 2020
While it's no secret that many college students drink alcohol, how COVID-19 affected these behaviors and patterns is the focus of recent research published in the journal Addictive Behaviors by the collaboration of William Lechner from the Department of Psychological…
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Kent State’s Contributive Legacy to the Assessment of Psychopathology
Nov. 17, 2020
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, MMPI, is a standardized psychometric test that was first published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1943 and quickly became the gold standard for assessing psychopathology. Kent State University has played a key role…
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