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Kent State's team focused on diverting food waste from the landfill stream and converting it into electricity

Kent State Team Captures "People's Choice" Vote in International Competition

Tags: College of Arts and Sciences, Mission Life VI, Student Research, sustainability

Kent State Professor Emerita Elected as 2017 Fellow of Prestigious Scientific Society

Tags: Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Awards and Honors, AAAS

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Cameron Lee, Ph.D., (left) and Scott Sheridan, Ph.D., (right) from Kent State University’s Department of Geography have teamed up to secure two research grants to study climate change and weather patterns.

Kent State Geographers Receive Two Research Grants to Study Climate Change and Weather Patterns

Tags: Department of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences, Research, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs

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Dark crustacean shell fragment embedded in fossilized dinosaur feces.

Fossils Reveal a Secret in the Diets of Plant Eating Dinosaurs

The discovery of fossilized dinosaur feces has scientists rethinking the eating habits of certain dinosaurs.

Tags: Research & Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Featured Story

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Kent State University Geology Professor Joseph Ortiz, Ph.D., and student Andrew Congdon take a few moments between collecting measurements of surface reflectance in Sandusky Bay this summer. (Photo credit: Sunny Dickerson, Bowling Green State University)

Kent State Professor Collaborates With NASA Glenn and University Researchers to Study, Improve Lake Erie’s Water Quality

Tags: Department of Earth Sciences, NASA, College of Arts and Sciences, Research, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, Research & Science

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Mary Beth Spitznagel, Ph.D. (right), a clinical neuropsychologist and associate professor at Kent State University, talks with a pet owner.

When Caring for a Sick Pet Becomes Too Much

Tags: Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Research

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Kent State researchers use EEG caps to study the brain activity of monks during a debate.

Mapping the Brain Activity of Buddhist Monks

Electroencephalogram (EEG) caps are helping Kent State University researchers unlock the secrets of the mind.

Tags: Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Research & Science, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, Featured Story

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Kent State University researchers use indents and boarders on plates to study how optical illusions help people choose smaller portions.

Kent State Study Shows How Optical Illusions May Help Fight Obesity

Kent State researchers build optical illusions into plates to see how they can help us choose smaller portions and ultimately lose weight.

Tags: Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Research, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, Health, Featured Story

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Kent State Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger examines new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Walk This Way

Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger helps develop new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Tags: Liquid Crystal Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Research, Success Story

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Eindhoven University of Technology researcher Anne Hélène Gélébart shows the walking device. This small device is the world’s first machine to convert light directly into walking, simply using one fixed light source. (Photo credit: Bart van Overbeeke)

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Professor Robin Selinger of Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute^® helps develop new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Tags: Liquid Crystal Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Research

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