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• Spring 2013 Research Incentive Awards The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce Research Incentive awards for Academic Year 2013-2014.
  
• April 2013: Dr. Jinhui Chen receives prize from APS President at ceremony in Denver  
  
• Summer 2013 Research Experience in Ecology Terrestrial-aquatic linkages in urban impacted ecosystems, Apply by March 25th
  
• Kent State Undergraduate Contributes to Particle Physics Research Effort This summer Kent State undergraduate Ben Stickel helped improve analysis software that reconstructs events occurring within proton-antiproton collisions, like those being studied at the Collider Detector at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois.
  
• 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.  
  
• Kent State University Planetarium Presents “The Skies of Winterâ€
  
• Jinhui Chen Awarded the 2012 George E. Valley, Jr. Prize by APS
  
• Research Incentive Awards The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce Research Incentive awards for Spring 2012.
  
• Kent State Planetarium Presents Cosmic Beginnings: Birth, Death and Rebirth in the Universe
  
• A public lecture on the universe on March 28 See the full announcement at this link
  
• Discover Magazine ranks a discovery co-led by Kent State as the #3 physics/math story for 2011
  
• Kent State Planetarium Presents The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
  
• 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.
  
  
• Kent State Planetarium Presents The Skies of Winter: Holidays in the Planetarium, Dec. 9, 10 and 16
  
• Kent State Researchers Play Lead Role in New Science Discovery Kent State University researchers are part of a team of international scientists who have discovered antihelium-4, the most massive antinucleus known to date.
  
• 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.
  
• Kent State Professor Makes Discovery Linked to the "Big Bang" Professor of Physics Declan Keane has worked at Kent State University for 23 years, extending his passion for research from the classroom into the real world.
  
• 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.
  
• Dr. Anthony Silvidi Leaves Legacy at Kent State Dr. Silvidi died on April 18, 2011 but his legacy at Kent State will continue as future generations of students benefit from his foresight and his generosity.
  
  
• Kent State Researchers Play Lead Role in New Science Discovery Kent State University researchers are part of a team of international scientists who have discovered antihelium-4, the most massive antinucleus known to date. This new discovery is the antimatter partner of the helium-4 nucleus, also called the alpha particle. Helium-4 is the normal form of helium, the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen. 
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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
  
• Kent State's antimatter discovery named as one of "Top 5" at Brookhaven Lab during 2010 The nuclear group in KSU's Department of Physics played a leading role in the 2010 discovery of the heaviest known antinucleus, which was also the first antinucleus with a non-zero strangeness quantum number. In January 2011, this discovery received special recognition from the management of Brookhaven National Laboratory, where the experiments leading to the discovery were carried out.
  
• Professor Peter Tandy Collaborates on Physics Breakthrough Kent State physics professor Peter Tandy is part of a team of researchers that is challenging some established thinking in particle physics. Tandy collaborated with Stanley Brodsky a professor at Stanford University’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Robert Shrock, a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University; and Craig Roberts, a senior physicist at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.
  
  
• 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.
  
• Former Apollo Flight Controller Sy Liebergot to Visit Kent State Oct. 4 As the lead flight controller for all the Apollo space missions, Sy Liebergot was a key player in the U.S. space program. Liebergot was at the focal point of the Apollo 13 crisis and played a prominent role in bringing the crew back to Earth safely.
  
  On Monday, Oct. 4, Kent State University will host three public events with Liebergot. He will offer insight into decision making in the U.S. space program, discuss his role in the aborted Apollo 13 moon mission and sign copies of his autobiography “Apollo EECOM: Journey of a Lifetime.
• Paper with important implications for Dark Energy co-authored by Prof. Peter Tandy "Void that is truly empty solves dark energy puzzle" is the tantalizing title of an article by the science journalist Rachel Courtland in the periodical New Scientist. Courtland's article is based on a refereed paper authored by Kent State's Prof. Peter Tandy and three other scientists. The work has a connection to the Cosmological Constant. The Cosmological Constant was first introduced by Einstein, but was later abandoned by him; he described it as his "biggest blunder".
  
• 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.
  
• Kent State Researchers Take Lead in Significant Physics Discovery Ten Kent State University researchers are part of a team of international scientists who have discovered the most massive antinucleus discovered to date. They are part of an international team of scientists studying high-energy collision of gold ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4 mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y.
  
• Congratulations to graduate student Tanya Ostapenko Congratulations to graduate student Tanya Ostapenko, who has been selected to participate in the 2010 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany.
  
• Top Ten Physics Newsmakers of the Decade A story in this month's issue of APS News (from the American Physical Society) looks back over the "Top Ten Physics Newsmakers of the Decade", and names the discovery of Quark Gluon Plasma as one of these top ten. See our departmental announcements for 2005 and also for 2008 for particulars about the Kent State role in this discovery.
  
• Spring 2010 Physics Programs & Events The most recent scheduled free planetarium show that was open to the public was our ever-popular holiday-season offering Holidays in the Planetarium  and took place in December 2009. The next scheduled free planetarium show that is open to the public is titled The Skies of Winter and will take place on Feb 19, 20 and 26, 2010 (Friday, Saturday and the following Friday) at 8 pm each evening.
  
• Announcements for 2009 Announcements for 2009
  
• Portman collaborating with Carnegie Mellon, MIT on virtual laboratories project December 2009 — Prof. John Portman, and Prof. Laura Bartolo (Director of the Kent State Center for Materials Informatics) are collaborating with faculty from Carnegie Mellon and MIT on an project to develop and implement virtual laboratories for instruction, with funding from the National Science Foundation. Details of this innovative project can be found in an e-newsletter story published in mid-December 2009.
  
• Study: Kent State No. 1 in making physics interesting to non-science majors Fall 2009 — New data on introductory physics class enrollments at universities nationwide have recently been released by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). On the basis of published AIP data averaged over the past decade, a study shows that the Kent State physics department ranks number-one in the US in making physics interesting and attractive to non-science majors. A closely related statistic also demonstrates that we are #1 nationwide in physics instructional productivity.
  
• Announcements for 2008 Announcements for 2008
  
• Announcements for 2007 Announcements for 2007
  
• Wiant PhD Graduation and Lehmann Award Photos One of only two major international dissertation awards in the field of liquid crystal technology, the annual honor recognizes young scientists for outstanding thesis or dissertation work. This is the first time the award has gone to a doctoral candidate in the United States.
  
• Jon Secaur Named Portage County Teacher of the Year by Coleman Foundation In his 35th and final year of teaching, physics teacher Jon Secaur was honored with the title of Portage County Teacher of the Year.
  
• Prof. Satyen Kumar receives his NSF Award Congratulations to Prof. Satyen Kumar, on being honored with a Director’s Award for Excellence from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
  
• Announcements for 2006 Announcements for 2006
  
• Announcements for 2005 Announcements for 2005
  
• Incredibly Exciting Times Physicist discusses future of the universe for Kent State audience
  
• Announcements for 2004 Announcements for 2004
  
• Announcements for 2003 Announcements for 2003
  
• Announcements for 2002 Announcements for 2002
  
• Announcements for 2001 Announcements for 2001