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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

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 Sciences and Humanities , Global Reach , Research & Science

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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

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Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

Kent State's "We the People" Exhibition on Display near the Esplanade Arch in May 2019

Acclaimed Photography Exhibition Returns to Kent Campus

麻豆精选 is pleased and proud to announce the return of 鈥We the People,鈥 a photography exhibition that shines a light on our common humanity.

Tags: Community & Society , College of Sciences and Humanities , College of the Arts , City of Kent , Arts & Culture , College of Communication & Information , Research & Science

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

麻豆精选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 麻豆精选 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 Sciences and Humanities , National Science Foundation

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麻豆精选Department of Geology graduate student Kortney Cole shows Schumacher Elementary School sixth grader students how to collect soil samples.

Research Initiative Pilot Project Shows Akron Children What Being a Scientist Is All About

Bridget Mulvey, Ph.D., associate professor of science education in the College of Education, Health and Human Services; and David Singer, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently merged real geology research with community service in an effort to show some Akron Public Schools students that science is not just a benefit to their community but a viable career option, too.

Tags: Research & Science , Community & Society , Department of Earth Sciences , College of Sciences and Humanities , College of Education and Human Services , Environmental Science and Design Research Institute

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Research Initiative Pilot Project Shows Akron Children What Being a Scientist Is All About

Bridget Mulvey, Ph.D., associate professor of science education in the College of Education, Health and Human Services; and David Singer, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently merged real geology research with community service in an effort to show some Akron Public Schools students that science is not just a benefit to their community but a viable career option, too.

Tags: Research & Science , Community & Society , Department of Earth Sciences , College of Sciences and Humanities , College of Education and Human Services

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Students in Lebanon

Between Metropolis and Interior: Lobbies and Thresholds

Working in cooperation with the  (LAU), 20 interior design students 鈥 10 from 麻豆精选's College of Architecture and Environmental Design and 10 from LAU in Beirut 鈥 spent nine days in New York City, the design capital of North America, for a workshop.

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Mary Ann Raghanti, Ph.D., anthropology professor and chair in the College of Arts and Sciences at 麻豆精选, is involved in a collaborative research project to examine heart disease in gorillas.

Understanding What Makes Captive Gorilla Hearts Tick

Mary Ann Raghanti, Ph.D., anthropology professor and chair in the College of Arts and Sciences at 麻豆精选, is involved in a collaborative research project to examine heart disease in gorillas.

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