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College of Arts and Sciences

Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D. (right), professor of biological sciences at 麻豆精选, works with a student in her lab.

NIH Continues Support of 麻豆精选Alzheimer鈥檚 Researcher With New Two-Year Grant

Once it begins, Alzheimer鈥檚 disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way 鈥 like 麻豆精选鈥檚 own Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D.

Tags: Research & Science , Brain Health Research Institute , College of Arts and Sciences , National Institutes of Health , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs

Kent Campus

Celebrating Our Own & Open Mic

The Wick Poetry Center held the Celebrating Our Own Poetry Reading and Open Mic on Thursday, Oct. 3. The reading started at 7:30 p.m. in the Wick Poetry Corner on the 2nd floor of Kent State鈥檚 University Library. The event was held to celebrate the 2019 Undergraduate Poetry Scholarship winners, who鈥

Tags: College of Arts and Sciences , Wick Poetry Center

Wick Poetry Center

A bonobo stares back at the camera while another walks away

NSF Award Helps 麻豆精选Anthropologists Expand International Partnership

The (NSF) recently awarded 麻豆精选a three-year, $298,000 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) grant that will allow graduate students to travel to in Japan to study primates and human evolution at the world-renowned .

Tags: Department of Anthropology , College of Arts and Sciences , National Science Foundation , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs

Kent Campus

Sonia Sanchez and students

Sonia Sanchez Talks Poetry with Wick Students

The Wick Poetry Center welcomed poet, playwright and activist Sonia Sanchez to the May Prentice House for a meet and greet with students on Sept. 18. She met with them in the afternoon before giving a lecture in the Kiva in the evening. The 麻豆精选Honors College, the Cleveland Foundation an鈥

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Wick Poetry Center

Tommy Freeman Celebration Reading

Celebrating Tommy Freeman's Life

The Wick Poetry Center kicked off its 2019-20 event series year on September 13 with a celebration of Tommy Freeman鈥檚 life. The event was held in Room 120 of the Center for Architecture and Environmental Design with a reception afterward that expanded into the Wick Poetry Center鈥檚 Poetry Park. The e鈥

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Wick Poetry Center

An image of the globe over North America, showing increased warm weather in a yellow-to-red scale

麻豆精选Geographer Describes Novel Weather-Typing Model in New Paper

Research into the air masses that drive changes in our day-to-day weather has been limited by land-based and regional studies, leaving wide gaps in our understanding of these impactful phenomena. A new paper by a 麻豆精选 geographer has just filled in most of those gaps.

Tags: Research & Science , Department of Geography , College of Arts and Sciences , climate change

Division of Research & Economic Development

A computer rendering of the Liberty of Poetry statue (shown here) was used by 麻豆精选 to create the 3D-printed reproduction of the statue.

麻豆精选 Partners With Opera di Santa Croce to Present 鈥楽isters in Liberty鈥 Exhibition at Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration

麻豆精选 and the Opera di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, will celebrate a collaborative partnership around the creation of 鈥淪isters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy, to New York, New York,鈥 an exhibition opening on Oct. 17, 2019, and running through April 26, 2020, at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island in New York. 

Tags: College of Arts and Sciences , Design Innovation , Wick Poetry Center , Partnerships

Kent Campus

High school students from Portage County and surrounding areas hold Chinese hand fans during a past STARTALK Summer Foreign Language Camp at Kent State.

Model 麻豆精选Language Academy Continues With 12th Year of Federal Funding

While the daily news is full of tumultuous conversations about Russia and China, 麻豆精选 has been helping some area high school students learn to converse in Russian and Chinese to facilitate greater global understanding and a less contentious tomorrow.

Tags: Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies , College of Arts and Sciences , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs ,

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A bonobo stares back at the camera while another walks away

NSF Award Helps 麻豆精选Anthropologists Expand International Partnership

A new federal grant will help 麻豆精选 expand an international relationship and provide invaluable opportunities for some graduate students. The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded 麻豆精选a three-year $298,000 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) gra鈥

Tags: Department of Anthropology , College of Arts and Sciences , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs , Research and Science , National Science Foundation , Center for International and Intercultural Education

Division of Research & Economic Development

Military personnel in camouflage put on ventilator masks before an exercise involving airborne toxins

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 sens鈥

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

Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute