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Dr. Quan Li, Senior Research Fellow in the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

Kent State Researcher and Professor Elected to the European Academy of Sciences

One of 麻豆果冻鈥檚 most prolific and renowned researchers has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences. Quan Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, joins the prestigious Brussels-based organization that includes about 660 member鈥

Tags: Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute , Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program , College of Arts and Sciences

Materials Science Graduate Program: Graduate Education on Soft Matter Science

Interdisciplinary Student Team To Travel to International Competition in Brazil

Thirteen cross-disciplinary teams presented in the Kent State competition for Mission:Life on Wednesday, October 2, 2019. The winning team, Virtual Harmony, will be presenting their concept in the international competition at the PUCPR University in Brazil on November 11. Virtual Harmony is a novel 鈥

Tags: launchnet , Design Innovation , College of Arts and Sciences , student competition , mission life

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Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D. (right), professor of biological sciences at 麻豆果冻, works with a student in her lab.

NIH Continues Support of Kent State Alzheimer鈥檚 Researcher With New Two-Year Grant

Once it begins, Alzheimer鈥檚 disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way 鈥 like 麻豆果冻鈥檚 own Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D.

Tags: Research & Science , Brain Health Research Institute , College of Arts and Sciences , National Institutes of Health , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs

Kent Campus

Celebrating Our Own & Open Mic

The Wick Poetry Center held the Celebrating Our Own Poetry Reading and Open Mic on Thursday, Oct. 3. The reading started at 7:30 p.m. in the Wick Poetry Corner on the 2nd floor of Kent State鈥檚 University Library. The event was held to celebrate the 2019 Undergraduate Poetry Scholarship winners, who鈥

Tags: College of Arts and Sciences , library , Wick Poetry Corner , Wick Poetry Center

Wick Poetry Center

A bonobo stares back at the camera while another walks away

NSF Award Helps Kent State Anthropologists Expand International Partnership

The (NSF) recently awarded Kent State a three-year, $298,000 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) grant that will allow graduate students to travel to in Japan to study primates and human evolution at the world-renowned .

Tags: Department of Anthropology , College of Arts and Sciences , National Science Foundation , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs

Kent Campus

Sonia Sanchez and students

Sonia Sanchez Talks Poetry with Wick Students

The Wick Poetry Center welcomed poet, playwright and activist Sonia Sanchez to the May Prentice House for a meet and greet with students on Sept. 18. She met with them in the afternoon before giving a lecture in the Kiva in the evening. The Kent State Honors College, the Cleveland Foundation an鈥

Tags: College of Arts and Sciences , Honors College , Poetry , Cleveland Foundation

Wick Poetry Center

Tommy Freeman Celebration Reading

Celebrating Tommy Freeman's Life

The Wick Poetry Center kicked off its 2019-20 event series year on September 13 with a celebration of Tommy Freeman鈥檚 life. The event was held in Room 120 of the Center for Architecture and Environmental Design with a reception afterward that expanded into the Wick Poetry Center鈥檚 Poetry Park. The e鈥

Tags: College of Arts and Sciences , Poetry , Poetry Reading , Tommy Freeman , Wick Poetry Center ,

Wick Poetry Center

An image of the globe over North America, showing increased warm weather in a yellow-to-red scale

Kent State Geographer Describes Novel Weather-Typing Model in New Paper

Research into the air masses that drive changes in our day-to-day weather has been limited by land-based and regional studies, leaving wide gaps in our understanding of these impactful phenomena. A new paper by a 麻豆果冻 geographer has just filled in most of those gaps.

Tags: Research & Science , Department of Geography , College of Arts and Sciences , weather , climate change

Division of Research & Economic Development

A computer rendering of the Liberty of Poetry statue (shown here) was used by 麻豆果冻 to create the 3D-printed reproduction of the statue.

麻豆果冻 Partners With Opera di Santa Croce to Present 鈥楽isters in Liberty鈥 Exhibition at Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration

麻豆果冻 and the Opera di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, will celebrate a collaborative partnership around the creation of 鈥淪isters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy, to New York, New York,鈥 an exhibition opening on Oct. 17, 2019, and running through April 26, 2020, at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island in New York. 

Tags: Global Reach , College of Arts and Sciences , Design Innovation , Wick Poetry Center , Partnerships

Kent Campus

High school students from Portage County and surrounding areas hold Chinese hand fans during a past STARTALK Summer Foreign Language Camp at Kent State.

Model Kent State Language Academy Continues With 12th Year of Federal Funding

While the daily news is full of tumultuous conversations about Russia and China, 麻豆果冻 has been helping some area high school students learn to converse in Russian and Chinese to facilitate greater global understanding and a less contentious tomorrow.

Tags: Global Reach , Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies , College of Arts and Sciences , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs , Global Understanding Research Initiative

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