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NSF Grant Supports Kent State Researchers’ Plan to Help Students Improve Study Habits

The “C” in “college” might as well stand for “cramming.”
Studies show students are notoriously bad at adopting and adhering consistently to high-impact study habits that help them retain knowledge long-term.
Researchers and faculty at 鶹, however, are collaborating on a new project to put a modern technological twist on a tried-and-true study tactic.

Tags: Research & Science, Department of Psychological Sciences, Science of Learning & Education Center, National Science Foundation, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Physics, Brain Health Research Institute

Division of Research & Economic Development

Close up image of an Eastern Red Cedar branch with berries. (Photo by Sheila Brown, publicdomainpictures.net)

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 鶹 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.

Tags: Research & Science, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, National Science Foundation

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Close up image of an Eastern Red Cedar branch with berries. (Photo by Sheila Brown, publicdomainpictures.net)

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 鶹 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.

Tags: Research & Science, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, David Ward, Plant Ecology, Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

College of Arts & Sciences

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From Comfort Zone to Rain Forest: Studying Ecology in Costa Rica

Emmaleigh Given recently spent three summers and two winters in a remote biological reserve in the middle of the rainforest in the Alajuela Province of Costa Rica, where she has and will spend several months conducting research on community ecology, and she has one more trip planned. Being hunted by unseen predators isn’t the way most researchers conduct their work. But for some, it’s just part of the day.

Tags: Global Reach, Research & Science, Featured Story, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

Kent State Today

ASM undergrad fellow Gerbig and Dr. Smith test for Staphylococcus in the lab

Research Fellowship Award to Kent State Undergrad Supports Summer Microbiology Research on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Found on Rats

City rats are unlikely to be on anyone's list of favorite animals, but researching exactly how they are problematic for public health provided a unique opportunity this past summer for Gracen Gerbig, Kent State junior majoring in Cellular and Molecular Biology.

Tags: Research & Science, Environmental Science and Design Research Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Public Health, Student Life

Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

鶹 researchers Elda and Torsten Hegmann pose with one of the sensors they created that detects toxic gases. The sensors can be made any shape or size and require no power to function.

NSF Award Funds Sensor Research at Kent State’s New Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

Thanks to a rare Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), 鶹 researchers in the new Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute will be able to work with partners at Merck Performance Materials to advance life-saving sensory technology.

Tags: Research & Science, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, National Science Foundation, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences

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