College of Sciences and Humanities
Â鶹´«Ã½ Honors 2016 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award Recipients
Three Â鶹´«Ã½ faculty members were honored with the 2016 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Awards at a ceremony that took place on April 5 in the University Library. This year’s recipients were selected from a large number of nominees by the University Research Council chaired by…
College of Education and Human Services
Â鶹´«Ã½ Researchers Publish Breakthrough in Leading Scientific Journal
Senior Research Fellow Quan Li, Ph.D., and his research group at Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Liquid Crystal Institute®, in the College of Arts and Sciences, have published a research article in the March 17 issue of Nature that could lead to a variety of breakthrough device applications and other indust…
Kent Campus
Â鶹´«Ã½'s Wick Poetry Center to Expand Traveling Stanzas Project With $125,000 in New Funding From Knight Foundation
The Wick Poetry Center at Â鶹´«Ã½ will expand its successful Traveling Stanzas project with $125,000 in new funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. The Knight Arts Challenge funds ideas that engage and enrich Akro…
Kent Campus
Brain Waves of Tibetan Monks Could One Day Help Students in the West
Since the time of the early Buddhist kings, Tibetan monks have practiced analytic meditation - where they memorize a Buddhist text and then attempt to deepen their understanding of this material by joining in debate pits lead by a senior monk, known as the challenger. “The challenger is s…
Kent Campus
Â鶹´«Ã½ Board Votes to Establish Unified Student Government Across All Â鶹´«Ã½ Campuses
Â鶹´«Ã½ Board of Trustees approved establishing a unified student government across all campuses – Ashtabula, East Liverpool, Geauga, Kent, Salem, Stark, Trumbull and Tuscarawas – during its March 9, 2016, board meeting.Each campus’ Undergraduate Student Government is recognized as the…
Kent Campus
Â鶹´«Ã½ Student Liz Schmidt Writes About Compassion to End Injustice, Takes Top Honors
When you first meet Liz Schmidt, an instant friendship emerges, filled with conversation illuminated with respect and kindness. Her friendly disposition and welcoming nature, coupled with her sense of adventure, reflects the social responsibility she lives by: “foster relationships and value people …
Kent Campus
Â鶹´«Ã½ Student Liz Schmidt Writes About Compassion to End Injustice, Takes Top Honors
When you first meet Liz Schmidt, an instant friendship emerges, filled with conversation illuminated with respect and kindness. Her friendly disposition and welcoming nature, coupled with her sense of adventure, reflects the social responsibility she lives by: “foster relationships and value people …
Kent Campus
Â鶹´«Ã½ Professor, Wick Poetry Center Earn University’s Diversity Awards
Molly Merryman, Â鶹´«Ã½ associate professor of sociology and founding director of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Women’s Center, has been awarded the university’s 2016 Diversity Trailblazer Award. The annual Diversity Trailblazer Award recognizes diversity pioneers associated with Â鶹´«Ã½ who have …
Kent Campus
Newly Developed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Material Could Enable Advanced Sensors, Â鶹´«Ã½ Researchers Say
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), essentially rubbers with liquid crystal properties, can do a number of fascinating things, especially in the fields of optics, photonics, telecommunications and medicine. They can curl up, bend, twist, wrinkle and stretch when exposed to light, heat, gases and other…
Kent Campus
Bioretention Cells Reduce Total Runoff by 40 Percent in Study
Â鶹´«Ã½ and Cleveland Metroparks partnered on study of two Parma neighborhoods near West Creek Reservation Rain barrels, rain gardens, and bioretention cells are increasingly used as green infrastructure to capture and slow storm water runoff before it gets to nearby urban waterways, …
Kent Campus