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Kent State Florence Program Featured in the News in Italy
July 28, 2021
Our Education Abroad program was featured in the national news in Italy to represent the return of students to Florence, and Italy in general, following Covid 19 shutdowns. Kent State offers programs in Florence during the Spring and Fall semesters. Students take a鈥
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Professor Receives NASA New Investigator Award
July 19, 2021
He Yin, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kent State University鈥檚 Department of Geography, recently received NASA鈥檚 New (Early Career) Investigator Award in Earth Science. Yin will lead evaluation and research of the devastating effects that the Syrian civil war has had on croplands鈥
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DNA & NAS: Kent State Professors Publish Comprehensive Research Article
June 23, 2021
It doesn鈥檛 take a scientist to understand the importance of DNA, as it acts as the very foundation for the existence of any living organism. However, it does take one to produce publications involving smectic liquid crystal ordering in dense solutions of 鈥済apped鈥 DNA duplexes.
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Art and Hope Intersect: Kent State and University of Arizona Launch Global Vaccine Poem Project
June 23, 2021
Update: The Global Vaccine Poem project is finding success with more than 1,900 submissions so far from more than 100 countries. The project is a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center and the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
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Lighting a fire(fly): Biological Sciences Researcher Helps Teachers Get Messy with Data
June 9, 2021
Julia Perrone, research technician and lab manager of the Bahlai computational ecology lab in the Kent State Department of Biological Sciences, wants teachers and students to get a chance to understand ecology and data science from a hands-on perspective. Perrone, a recent鈥
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Kent State Faculty Research Featured by U.S. Army
June 7, 2021
Virtual reality research funded by the Army Research Lab with a grant to Josh Pollock, Ph. D. (PI), assistant professor, and Will Kalkhoff, Ph. D. (肠辞-笔滨),鈥
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Physics Professor Awarded NSF Grant that Provides Research Opportunities for Interdisciplinary and Minority Students
May 27, 2021
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a $300,000 grant to Thorsten-Lars Schmidt, Ph.D., to develop molecular tools that allow researchers to study membrane proteins.
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Speeding Up The Process: Computer Science Professor Receives NSF CAREER Funding
May 20, 2021
Computers are fast. They benefit humanity because of their ability to process data much faster than a human can. But Gokarna Sharma, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science in Kent State University鈥檚 College鈥
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Kent State Researchers Receive NIH Award for Alzheimer鈥檚 Research
May 20, 2021
Kent State University鈥檚 Mary Ann Raghanti, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology, and Melissa Edler, Ph.D., are part of a team of researchers who received a five year National Institutes of Health (NIH) award鈥
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