College of Arts and Sciences
NSF Award Helps Kent State Anthropologists Expand International Partnership
A new federal grant will help Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ expand an international relationship and provide invaluable opportunities for some graduate students. The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded Kent State a three-year $298,000 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) graā¦
NSF Supports Inter-institutional Project to Develop Chemical Sensor Technology
Toxic air pollutants such as chlorine and ozone are hazards for civilian workers and public service employees like firefighters, police and military personnel. Some airborne chemicals can be difficult to detect at low levels with high specificity, though, and relevant technologies like wearable sensā¦
Acclaimed Photography Exhibition Returns to Kent Campus
Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ is pleased and proud to announce the return of āWe the People,ā a photography exhibition that shines a light on our common humanity.

Kent State Hosts Innovative International Translation Boot Camp
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages (MCLS), in Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ās College of Arts and Sciences, recently hosted the Second MEMENTO Boot Camp 2019 ā a one-month research camp gathering 20 interdisciplinary researchers from 10 countries and regions, who worked together on the innovatā¦
NIH Continues Support of Kent State Alzheimerās Researcher with New 2-Year Grant
Once it begins, Alzheimerās Disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way ā like Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ās own Dr. Gemma Casadesus Smith. Since 2016, Casadesus Smith, an associate professor of biologiā¦
New Methodologies Developed in Kent State Geology Professor's Lab Improve Monitoring of Lakes and Oceans
After years of remote sensing work, Joseph Ortiz, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Āé¶¹¹ū¶³, and his research team recently shared their development of new cost-efficient methodologies that may lead to much safer drinking water for people in Ohio and other municipalities affected by harmful algal blooms (HAB).

NIH Funds Kent State Psychologistās Project to Teach Children Food Allergy Safety Skills
A Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ researcher with a background in safety training models ā and a very personal motivation ā has devised a method to help some children with food allergies stay safe, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) just granted him the funding to test it.

Kent State Researcher and Professor Elected to the European Academy of Sciences
One of Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ās 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 memberā¦
NSF Awards Kent State Researchers $1.3 Million to Nourish Childrenās Minds, Fill Their Bellies
Science is complex, and itās difficult to discuss it with children under the best circumstances; itās even more difficult when they are hungry. Two Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ researchers may have cooked up a way to solve both of those problems, and the National Science Foundation just awarded them a three-year, $1.3 million grant to determine if their recipe works.

Kent State Biological Sciences Researchers to Lead Study on the Effects of the Spreading Eastern Red Cedars
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $914,000 grant to Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ to lead a collaborative research project to study how and at what rate the geographically most widespread native conifer in the eastern United States, the Eastern Red Cedar tree species (Juniperus virginiana), spreads across the landscape.