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Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute Hosts Chirality Symposium June 4-5

Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ā€™s Liquid Crystal InstituteĀ® will host a symposium called ā€œChirality at the Nanoscaleā€ on June 4-5 in the Kent Student Center on the Kent Campus.    ā€œThis event features internationally renowned scientists presenting cutting-edge research on one of the key central to…

Tags: Liquid Crystal Institute , College of Arts and Sciences , Symposium , Events

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Kent State Biological Sciences Researcher Receives $1.8 Million NIH Grant for Chronic Wound Healing

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ā€™s Min-Ho Kim, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, a $1,842,350 five-year grant. The grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Nursing Research is to develop ā€œnanobombs,ā€ a na…

Tags: Department of Biological Sciences , College of Arts and Sciences , National Institutes of Health , Grants , Research

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Kent State student Lewis Sharpnack studies the structure of smectic liquid crystal phases in Physics Professor Satyendra Kumar’s laboratory in the Science Research Building.

Kent State Physics Doctoral Student to Attend Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

What does it take to become great in your field? Certainly motivation, dedication and creativity are important, but what about inspiration? For young scientists, that inspiration can come from a variety of places, including interactions with colleagues and especially the top scientists in their fiel…

Tags: Department of Physics , College of Arts and Sciences , Student Success , Success Story

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NOCMES to Receive Education Award From the Niagara Foundation

Kent State’s Joshua Stacher and Case Western Reserve’s Pete Moore to accept award The Northeast Ohio Consortium for Middle East Studies (NOCMES) will receive the Education Award at the Niagara Peace and Dialogue Awards ceremony on May 18 at the City Club of Cleveland.  Accepting the award for…

Tags: Department of Political Science , College of Arts and Sciences , Northeast Ohio Consortium for Middle East Studies , Honors and Awards

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Physics Graduate Student Lewis Sharpnack will attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in late June.

Kent State Physics Doctoral Student to Attend Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

What does it take to become great in your field?  Certainly motivation, dedication and creativity are important, but what about inspiration?  For young scientists that inspiration can come from a variety of places, including interactions with colleagues and especially the top scientists in…

Tags: Department of Physics , College of Arts and Sciences , Lindau Meeting , Nobel Laureate , Science , Research , National Science Foundation , Satyendra Kumar , X-ray reflectivity , Liquid Crystals

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Kent State Doctoral Student to Gain Firsthand Experience on Capitol Hill

Lisa Hager’s research focuses on the actions and reactions of Congress and the Supreme Court What is the best way to truly understand the inner workings of the U.S. Congress? Not through watching the news or reading a textbook. Washington, D.C., insiders will tell you that you need to actually be o…

Tags: Department of Political Science , College of Arts and Sciences

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Kent State to Help Akron Students Earn College Credit Without Leaving High School

  Reading, writing and arithmetic are getting a college-styled makeover in two Akron, Ohio, high schools. Through a $480,000 grant from the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation, the partnership called College Today will send Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ instructors into Ellet High Schoo…

Tags: College of Education, Health and Human Services , Division of Institutional Advancement , College of Arts and Sciences

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Kent State faculty, staff, students and campus visitors gather on the Kent State Commons and Blanket Hill for the 45th annual commemoration of May 4, 1970.

Kent State Marks 45th Annual May 4 Commemoration

Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ held its 45th annual commemoration of May 4, 1970, with events April 30-May 4. The annual commemoration, hosted by the May 4 Task Force, provided an opportunity for the university community to gather and remember those who were lost and injured during the tragedy and also …

Tags: May 4 Commemoration , May 4 Task Force , May 4 Visitors Center , College of Arts and Sciences , Success Story

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Kent State’s Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies Receives $225,000 in Grants From Federal Government

Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ professors Brian James Baer, Ph.D., and Theresa Minick of the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies have been awarded two federal government STARTALK grants, totaling $225,000, to support the Regents Foreign Language Academy, a summer language immersion program fo…

Tags: Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies , College of Arts and Sciences , Grants , University News , Featured Story

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Distinguished Student Leadership Awards

College of Arts and Sciences Presents Distinguished Student Leadership, Teacher and Advisor Awards

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2015 Student Leadership and Distinguished Teacher and Advisor Awards, which is sponsored annually by the College of Arts and Sciences. The student award recipients, who are nominated by their departments, have shown leadership in academics, university service…

Tags: College of Arts and Sciences , James Blank , Joseph Struckel , Sara Newman , Vera Camden , award

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