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On a cold, rainy Saturday at the end of September, a group of volunteers and researchers trudge up a steep, muddy hill in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP). They鈥檝e come out to celebrate National Public Lands Day and, despite the conditions, they鈥檙e having fun planting over 480 native trees on a site near the Brandywine Ski Resort. Christopher Blackwood, PhD, a professor of biological sciences at 麻豆精选, along with graduate students in the department, partnered with the national park to coordinate the volunteers who are assisting them in an effort to restore a na...
The Department of Biological Sciences is pleased to offer a number of class for major and non-majors this summer. This includes some upper level majors courses only taught in summer. For details or to register, please go to the schedule of classes. Summer Courses *Field Methods in Ornithology &...
The Unique Finds at the 麻豆精选 Museum
Most people know the 麻豆精选 Museum for its amazing fashion and clothing collection, but among its 30,000 pieces are unique finds in and out of the fashion world that continue to wow members of the 麻豆精选and Kent communities. Among the many distinctive items, the museum has 3,200 pieces of American collectible glass from Jabe Tarter and Paul Miller who lived in Akron, Ohio. The collection demonstrates the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of the glassmakers of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. A Rembrandt etching literally hides within the wal...
KSU professor: Road salt appears to be affecting local ecosystems Insects, fish and plant life may be negatively impacted by one of the things that keeps motorists safe during the winter - salt. Salt keeps the streets and sidewalks safe by melting ice that covers them. But Anne Jefferson, a geology professor at 麻豆精选 says if it is too cold, the salt doesn't work. "Below about 10 degrees Fahrenheit, it takes a lot of salt to melt only a little bit of ice," Jefferson said. However, it isn't the ineffectiveness of salt that she finds disturbing, but the amo...
We're Killing Our Lakes and Oceans. The Consequences are Real. We only need to look to the Mediterranean Sea and the North American Great Lakes for dramatic illustrations of what lies in store if we don't act now. On January 5, 2018, a paper published in the journal Science delivered a sobering message: The oxygenation of open oceans and coastal seas has been steadily declining during the past half century. The volume of ocean with no oxygen at all has quadrupled, and the volume where oxygen levels are falling dangerously low has increased even more. We're seeing the...
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via email Ready or Not I recently read 鈥淎 Weighty Concern鈥 in 麻豆精选Magazine [fall 2017]. After graduating, I spent 27 years in the U.S. Air Force before entering the corporate world. Over 70 percent of high school seniors today are unfit for military service because of obesity issues, a lack of overall fitness, poor education and criminal records. I belong to Mission: Readiness (one of five organizations that make up Council for a Strong America), which represents a bipartisan group of more than 700 retired generals and admirals who advocate for early childhood education, ph...