Research
Kent State Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence
Ā鶹¹ū¶³ researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.
Kent State Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth
According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017.
These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it.
An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by Ā鶹¹ū¶³ researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.
Kent State Epidemiologist Studies Best Practices for Helping Cardiac and Respiratory Patients Heal
Ā鶹¹ū¶³ scholar Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., is all heart, an academic who lives and breathes research, almost literally. Zullo, an associate professor of epidemiology in Kent Stateās College of Public Health, has spent a significant portion of her professional and academic career studying thā¦
Scholar Gets Students, Kent State on the Move
Ā鶹¹ū¶³ās Scholar of the Month for December would prefer that you read this standing up, or even doing some calisthenics. Go on, get moving. Jacob Barkley, Ph.D., is an associate professor of exercise science in Kent Stateās College of Education, Health and Human Services. During hiā¦
November Scholar Puts Communication on Display
Scholar of the Month
Jessica Barness
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design
College of Communication and Information
2012-present
The word ācommunicationā likely makes you think of language, but Novemberās Scholar of the Month has spent her entire career researching design as a language of its own.
Across various media, Jessica Barness, an assistant professor in Ā鶹¹ū¶³ās School of Visual Communication Design, creates her own design-based research model that merges the making of artifacts with critical inquiry.
Kent State Researchers to Study the Effects of Probiotics on Brain Health
University partners with i-Health and Stow-Glen Retirement Village Ā鶹¹ū¶³, in partnership with the Stow-Glen Retirement Village in Stow, Ohio, recently received an industry-funded grant of $430,000 from i-Health Inc., a subsidiary of DSM Nutritional Products, to examine whether takinā¦
Scholar Gets Students, Kent State on the Move
Ā鶹¹ū¶³ās Scholar of the Month for December would prefer that you read this standing up, or even doing some calisthenics. Go on, get moving. Jacob Barkley, Ph.D., is an associate professor of exercise science in Kent Stateās College of Education, Health and Human Services. During hiā¦
Kent State Chemistry Professor Awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal in Poland
Mietek Jaroniec, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences at Ā鶹¹ū¶³, was recently awarded the Medal of Marie Sklodowska-Curie by the Polish Chemical Society for his scientific achievements. The prestigious medal isā¦
November Scholar Puts Communication on Display
Scholar of the Month
Jessica Barness
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design
College of Communication and Information
2012-present
The word ācommunicationā likely makes you think of language, but Novemberās Scholar of the Month has spent her entire career researching design as a language of its own.
Across various media, Jessica Barness, an assistant professor in Ā鶹¹ū¶³ās School of Visual Communication Design, creates her own design-based research model that merges the making of artifacts with critical inquiry.
āIām interested in the multiple facets of design,ā she said. āDesign is social, and itās a professional practice as well as a scholarly discipline. Weāre designing artifacts and experiences, but weāre also building the new knowledge necessary to inform and lead those activities. Research through design can be used to better understand people, phenomena, theories or technologies. By approaching design as a sort of hybrid practice, our students learn how to adapt to future needs within our society.