Chemical Physics News

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program News & Announcements

• World-Renowned Scientist Ron Mallett to Keynote College of Nursing's “Driving the Future 2013†Kent State University’s College of Nursing presents “Driving the Future 2013,†an event focused on inspiration and innovation and their roles in the education, science and healthcare of the future. The event will take place on Monday, March 4, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., and will feature a series of TED TALK-style presentations. The event will take place at the Kent Student Center with morning sessions at the Kiva. Registration is required by Wednesday, Feb. 27.
  - Posted Feb. 22, 2013
• Ohio Third Frontier Funding Could Lead to New Kent State Spin-Off Technology Companies The State of Ohio’s Third Frontier Program announced on Dec. 13 that Kent State University was awarded three of the nine Phase I awards given through its Technology Validation and Start-Up Fund (TVSF). The goal of the TVSF is to create greater economic growth in Ohio-based start-up companies that commercialize technologies developed by Ohio institutions of higher education and other Ohio not-for-profit research institutions.
  - Posted Dec. 17, 2012
• Inaugural Internal Postdoctoral Seed Program to support 14 postdoctoral research fellows The Division of Research and Sponsored Programs would like to congratulate the recipients of the inaugural Internal Post-doctoral Seed Program. In this initial round, 12 proposals were selected which resulted in awards for the support of 14 post-doctoral associates for one year. In addition, each of these awards was augmented by the investigators’ departments and/or colleges to provide a total of two years of post-doctoral support.  
  - Posted Nov. 28, 2012
• Whitesides Seminar Scheduled for Oct. 9 Kent State University will host a seminar by Harvard Chemistry Professor George M. Whitesides at the Kent Student Center, Kiva on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. The seminar, "Simplicity as a Component of Invention" is free and open to all faculty members, staff, students, and the public.
  - Posted Sep. 24, 2012
• Kent State’s Symposium on Flexible Liquid Crystal Devices to Showcase Digital Research, Sept. 26-27 Kent State University will host a two-day symposium on Sept. 26-27 to showcase cutting-edge university research and industry innovations in flexible liquid crystal devices such as displays, e-writers, eyewear, photovoltaics, sensors and biomedical devices.
  - Posted Sep. 18, 2012
• Symposium on Flexible Liquid Crystal Devices to be held Sept. 26-27
  - Posted Aug. 13, 2012
• Ohio Third Frontier Awards $3 Million to Kent State University The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has approved a $3 million award to Kent State University. The award is part of the more than $21 million in grants recommended by the commission through the Ohio Third Frontier Open Innovation Incentive and the Ohio Third Frontier Innovation Platform Program to support innovation activities in the state.
  - Posted Jul. 27, 2012
• Liquid Crystal Research Earns Kent State Professor Outstanding Research and Scholar Award Antal Jakli, Ph.D., Kent State faculty member in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program since 2004 and a member of the Liquid Crystal Institute® staff since 1999, recently received an Outstanding Research and Scholar Award for his work in electro-optical, electro-mechanical and rheological properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals.
  - Posted Jun. 11, 2012
• Kent State University Invests in Flexible Electronics Research to Bolster Regional Economic Development
  - Posted May. 30, 2012
• Research Incentive Awards The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce Research Incentive awards for Spring 2012.
  - Posted May. 14, 2012
• Kent State’s John L. West Named Trustees Research Professor The Kent State University Board of Trustees recently named John L. West, Ph.D., an internationally respected researcher and the university’s former vice president for research, to a five-year term as Trustees Research Professor, effective July 1.
  - Posted Mar. 29, 2012
• Kent State University Gets Atomic Force Microscope Lab When Hiroshi Yokoyama became director of Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute, he was determined to set the laboratory apart from others.
  - Posted Mar. 26, 2012
• Kent State to Host STEM Project Fair on Feb. 11 Science, technology, engineering and math – commonly referred to as STEM fields – will be in spotlight when Kent State University hosts the Hudson STEM Project Fair on Saturday, Feb. 11, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
  
  - Posted Feb. 3, 2012
• MEDIA ADVISORY: New Liquid Crystal-Based Technology that Rapidly Detects Multiple Pathogens in Food to be Introduced On Oct. 26, Crystal Diagnostics will introduce a new technology using liquid crystals to detect multiple harmful pathogens in food in a single test. Crystal Diagnostics is the exclusive licensee of fundamental liquid crystal biosensor technologies developed jointly by a research partnership between Kent State University and Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED).
  - Posted Oct. 20, 2011
• New Grant funded to LCI Theory Group Professors Robin Selinger and Jonathan Selinger have been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research. The project is entitled, "Topological Defects, Curved Geometries, and Shape Evolution in Soft Matter.- Posted Sep. 20, 2011
• Partnership for Innovation (PFI) The National Science Foundation has announced its support for a new Partnership for Innovation (PFI) in Northeast Ohio, focused on liquid crystal - polymer interfaces, starting on Sept. 15th, 2011.
  - Posted Sep. 6, 2011
• JobsOhio’s Mark Kvamme Visits Kent State University’s Centennial Research Park Kent State University received Mark Kvamme, the newly installed interim chief investment officer and president of JobsOhio, on Tuesday, July 26. JobsOhio is the private economic development agency established by Gov. John Kasich and the Ohio legislature. Kvamme visited the university’s Centennial Research Park and three Portage County manufacturing firms that are all licensees of technology developed through research at Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute®.
  - Posted Jul. 26, 2011
• Kent State Researchers Solve Geometry Problem That Assists Drilling Industry Two Kent State University researchers recently found out that solving an abstract geometry problem can yield unexpected benefits.
  - Posted Jun. 21, 2011
• Kent State Plans Exciting New Liquid Crystal Research Investments Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute®, the most comprehensive research and educational center in the field of liquid crystals, has been demonstrating value with exciting new liquid crystal science initiatives since its creation in 1965.
  - Posted Jun. 20, 2011
• Kent State Plans Exciting New Liquid Crystal Research Investments Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute®, the most comprehensive research and educational center in the field of liquid crystals, has been demonstrating value with exciting new liquid crystal science initiatives since its creation in 1965. The applications of breakthrough findings at the institute have had an impact on the world, from liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions to computer monitors to new electronic devices, like the iPad.
  - Posted Jun. 7, 2011
• Global Technology Leader to Visit Kent State to Discuss Liquid Crystal Research Samsung Electronics Corporation is a leader in the global market of high-tech electronics manufacturing and digital media, and the largest producer of liquid crystal displays in the world. On Friday, May 20, Dr. Sung Tae Shin, senior vice president of Samsung’s LCD Center in South Korea, will visit Kent State University on to discuss the university’s groundbreaking research involving new applications for liquid crystal display technologies.
  - Posted May. 19, 2011
• Lu receives an SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics CPIP student Lu Lu has been awarded an SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics.
  - Posted May. 10, 2011
• Kent State Liquid Crystal Researcher to Speak at Ohio Innovation Conference Kent State University researcher and chemistry professor John West from the university’s Liquid Crystal Institute will be among the top business leaders, government officials and university representatives who will speak at the “Building the Ohio Innovation Economy†conference in Cleveland, on April 25 and 26.
  
  - Posted Apr. 22, 2011
• Increasing Scarcity of Mineral Based Materials Education and Research Seminar by James D. McGuffin-Cawley, Thursday, April 21, 2011, 11:00am, KSU Samsung Auditorium Liquid Crystal & Materials Science Building
  - Posted Apr. 13, 2011
• Jakli receives 2010 Luckhurst-Samulski Prize
  - Posted Apr. 11, 2011
• President Obama Honors Kent State Alum and Former LCI Researcher Kent State University alumnus Dr. Ivan Smalyukh was recently honored at the White House, receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Barack Obama. Smalyukh, who earned his doctorate in chemical physics from Kent State in 2003, was also a researcher and adjunct assistant professor at Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI).
  - Posted Feb. 28, 2011
• President Obama praises Kent Displays, Inc. in Northeast Ohio stop President Barack Obama hosted the “Winning the Future†forum in Cleveland yesterday to meet with the Northeast Ohio business community, including Albert Green, CEO of Kent Displays, Inc., a local spin-off company of the Liquid Crystal Institute that employs about 100 people.
  - Posted Feb. 23, 2011
• Researchers Discover New Phenomenon Involving Liquid Crystals A team of researchers at Kent State University have discovered a new version of a widely used scientific technique. The technique is electrophoresis — in which an applied electric field is used to move particles dispersed in a fluid — and the new idea is to use a liquid crystal as the carrier fluid. The result is increased versatility, which may lead to new uses in display technologies, microfluidic devices and other applications.
  
  Oleg Lavrentovich, director of Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute, collaborated with Kent State graduate student Israel Lazo and Oleg Pishnyak, a former Kent State graduate student who is now a senior scientist at Kent Displays, Inc. Their findings are published in the Oct. 21 edition of Nature, an international weekly journal of science.
  - Posted Oct. 20, 2010
• Liquid Crystal Day 2010 Takes Place Oct. 8 Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program invite you to attend Liquid Crystal Day 2010, “Liquid Crystals With Biological Relevance” on Friday, Oct. 8, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
  - Posted Oct. 4, 2010
• U.S. SBA Funding Supports Kent State-based Flexible Electronics Cluster Northeast Ohio’s emerging flexible electronics industry recently received a boost in the form of a $499,514 contract from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Innovative Economies initiative. The funding was awarded to NorTech, a regional nonprofit economic development organization, leading efforts to develop regional innovation clusters in Northeast Ohio. NorTech will use the funds to focus on small business growth and job creation in the region’s flexible electronics industry.
  - Posted Sep. 21, 2010
• 2010-2011 Provost’s Fellows Announced The Provost’s Fellowship is designed to develop faculty leaders by providing opportunities for mid-career and senior faculty to serve half-time for one semester in an administrative role in the Office of the Provost.
  - Posted May. 13, 2010
• Governor Announces Kent State as a Center of Excellence Gov. Ted Strickland has named Kent State as a Center of Excellence in Enabling Technologies: Advanced Materials and Sensors for the state of Ohio. Kent State joins four other universities throughout the state to receive this distinction.
  - Posted Apr. 19, 2010
• Hicks Receives IGERT Grant to Study Liquid Crystal Elastomer Biological Sensors Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program (CPIP) Student Sarah Hicks recently received a one-year, IGERT (Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeships) grant from the National Science Foundation.
  - Posted Sep. 9, 2009