A & S Research

• Spring 2013 Research Incentive Awards The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce Research Incentive awards for Academic Year 2013-2014.
  - Posted Apr. 25, 2013
• Kent State Hosts its Inaugural Neuroscience Symposium on April 29 Kent State University hosts its inaugural Neuroscience Symposium “The Neuroscience of Mental Health†on April 29 from 9:30 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva on the Kent Campus.
  - Posted Apr. 22, 2013
• April 2013: Dr. Jinhui Chen receives prize from APS President at ceremony in Denver  
  - Posted Apr. 21, 2013
• CS Colloquium 4/17/2013 "Mining Complex Graphs and Networks"
  - Posted Mar. 27, 2013
• Honoring Our 2013 Outstanding Research and Scholar Award Recipients Three Kent State University faculty members were recognized during a ceremony on March 19 as the university honored its Outstanding Research and Scholar Award recipients. The recipients of the 2013 award are Michael Loderstedt, School of Art; Katherine Rawson, Department of Psychology; and Carrie Schweitzer, Department of Geology, Kent State University at Stark.
  - Posted Mar. 25, 2013
• Kent State Recognizes Outstanding Research and Scholar Award Recipients on March 19 Three Kent State University faculty members will be recognized during a ceremony on March 19 as the university honors its Outstanding Research and Scholar Award recipients. The recipients of the 2013 award are Michael Loderstedt, School of Art; Katherine Rawson, Department of Psychology; and Carrie Schweitzer, Department of Geology, Kent State University at Stark.
  - Posted Mar. 14, 2013
• 2013 Kent State University Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award Recipients Announced Awards Ceremony and Concert to be held March 19
  - Posted Mar. 13, 2013
• From Cornfields to Kent State: Researcher Demonstrates Fracking Produces Less Wastewater Than Conventional Drilling For Brian Lutz, Ph.D., a native of Lordstown, Ohio, what started out as a curiosity while working on his family farm has led him to where he is now: asking critical research questions on fracking and shale gas issues that can affect millions of people in his home state. 
  - Posted Feb. 25, 2013
• CS Colloquium 3/1/2013 "Bayesian Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning"
  - Posted Feb. 11, 2013
• Kent State Researcher Says Fracking Produces Less Wastewater Than Conventional Drilling For Brian Lutz, Ph.D., a native of Lordstown, Ohio, what started out as a curiosity while working on his family farm has led him to where he is now: asking critical research questions on fracking and shale gas issues that can affect millions of people in his home state.
  - Posted Feb. 7, 2013
• Investigating the Underpinnings of Fear, Trauma, and Depression How does the human brain handle fear? How are our emotions regulated? What role do genes play? Currently, we do not have all the answers to these questions, but neuroscientist Aaron Jasnow, among others, at Kent State University are taking a closer look.
  - Posted Feb. 4, 2013
• KSU Team Maps Recovery to learn how Cities Rebuild from Disaster An Ohio professor is using advanced mapping techniques to examine rebuilding in Joplin for clues that might explain why some neighborhoods recover after a disaster but others don’t.
  - Posted Jan. 29, 2013
• Kent State Research Highlights Biodiversity Hotspot in Fossil Coral Reef Where do many decapod crustaceans such as lobsters, crabs and shrimp live today? One key habitat is coral reefs, even though reefs occupy only a small portion of today’s oceans. A new report based on research conducted at Kent State University indicates that decapod biodiversity was also extremely high in fossilized coral reefs from the Cretaceous period (145 to 66 million years ago).
  - Posted Jan. 23, 2013
• CS Colloquium 2/1/2013 "The Weakening and Delayed Effects of Long Tail Distributions in Big Data Access"
  - Posted Jan. 23, 2013
• All Study Strategies Not Created Equal, According to Kent State Researchers Students everywhere, put down those highlighters and pick up some flash cards! Some of the most popular study strategies – such as highlighting and even rereading – do not show much promise for improving student learning, according to a new report authored in part by two Kent State University researchers.
  Kent State’s John Dunlosky, professor of psychology, and Katherine Rawson, associate professor of psychology, and a team of distinguished psychological scientists review the scientific evidence for 10 learning techniques commonly used by students. Their findings are published in the published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
  
  - Posted Jan. 10, 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
• 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.
  - Posted Dec. 6, 2012
• Peter Tandy's Research Program Receives over 30 Years of Continuous NSF Support Since joining the faculty at Kent State University in 1979, Professor Peter Tandy (Department of Physics) has maintained a research program that has merited continuous funding from the National Science Foundation through Division of Physics programs in Nuclear Theory and Theoretical Physics. Over the past 33 years, Tandy has received 15 grants from NSF.
  - Posted Dec. 5, 2012
• A&S Requests Proposals for 2013 Research Incentives The College of Arts & Sciences invites interested faculty to submit proposals for three Research Incentive programs which are designed to encourage research proposal development, and ultimately increased research expenditures, within the College. Applicants are required to submit preliminary information and an initial budget by January 16, 2013. The final submission deadline is February 6, 2013.
  - Posted Dec. 5, 2012
• A&S Launches Research Directory The College of Arts & Sciences has recently launched a web-based Research Directory which lists information about external funding activity over the last several years including name of sponsor, principal investigator, proposal title, and award amount. The listing may be sorted by any field and some entries link to abstracts.
  - Posted Dec. 5, 2012
• CS Colloquium 12/05/2012 "Tire Modeling at Goodyear"
  - Posted Dec. 3, 2012
• GHH Lab Research Team Surveys Waldo Canyon Wildfire Burn Area in Colorado Springs, CO Research Assistants Adam B Cinderich and Andrea Blanka Szell traveled to Colorado Springs, CO to conduct a recovery survey of the area impacted by the Waldo Canyon Wildfire using spatial video units. This preliminary data collection was part of a new project, recently funded by the Natural Hazards Center Quick Response Grant Program of the University of Colorado - Boulder under Principal Investigator Dr. Jacqueline (Mills) Curtis.
  - Posted Dec. 3, 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
• Research From Old Dominion, Kent State and USC Scientists Provides Better Understanding of Climate Changes A team of scientists from Old Dominion University, Kent State University and the University of Southern California has identified for the first time a clear 1,500-year cycle in the Arctic Oscillation (AO), the surface atmosphere pressure pattern in the far north that greatly influences weather in the Northern Hemisphere.
  - Posted Nov. 14, 2012
• Kent State Researchers Awarded National Science Foundation Grant Researchers from Kent State University’s Department of Geology have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study diversity, evolution and extinction in crabs, lobsters, and shrimps. The $100,000, two-year grant will fund the study of this economically important, diverse group of animals whose geologic history extends back 400 million years.
  - Posted Oct. 23, 2012
• NIH Grant Awarded for Multiple Sclerosis Research Professors Jennifer McDonough (PI) and Ernie Freeman (PI) (Department of Biological Sciences) together with Professor Roger Gregory (co-PI) (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) have been awarded a two-year, $398,682 grant from the National Institutes of Health to support their project "Neuronal Expression of Hemoglobin in Multiple Sclerosis Cortex. - Posted Sep. 29, 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
• Jinhui Chen Awarded the 2012 George E. Valley, Jr. Prize by APS
  - Posted Sep. 21, 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
• Laura Bartolo named member of the National Academies of Sciences BRDI Laura Bartolo, Professor and Director of the Center for Materials Informatics at Kent State University, was recently named by the National Research Council to be a member of the National Academies of Sciences Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI).
  - Posted Sep. 4, 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
• 500 MHz NMR Upgraded with New Electronics and Software The 500 MHz NMR spectrometer in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has recently been upgraded with new, digital control console and new software.
  - Posted May. 29, 2012
• Kent State Researchers Examine Emotional Impact of Acting White Accusation Acting white is an accusation faced by many black adolescents, and it is one of the most negative accusations a black adolescent can receive from another, according to a team of Kent State University researchers.
  
  A recent study published in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders highlights the emotional implications of being on the receiving end of the acting white accusation. Kent State researchers who surveyed African-American adolescents in Northeast Ohio found higher levels of anxiety among those who had been accused of acting white.
  - Posted May. 17, 2012
• Research Incentive Awards The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce Research Incentive awards for Spring 2012.
  - Posted May. 14, 2012
• Sciences Research Activity Since June 2011, faculty research activities in the sciences have included many publications, grant awards, and invited presentations which have contributed to the research mission at KSU. Recent sciences research includes work by Maxim Dzero & Carmen Almasan, Songping Huang & Soumitra Basu, Laura Leff, Jonathan Maletic, Marilyn Norconk, and Alison Smith.
  - Posted May. 14, 2012
• Varga selected as 2012 Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Emeritus Professor Richard Varga (Department of Mathematical Sciences) has been selected as a 2012 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
  - Posted May. 14, 2012
• Department of Geology: Achievements June 2011 – April 2012 Recent research activity conducted by Department of Geology faculty members between June 2011 and April 2012 includes five new grants, five articles, one book chapter, and one invited presentation.
  - Posted May. 8, 2012
• Department of Computer Science: Achievements June 2011-April 2012 Recent research activity conducted by Department of Computer Science faculty members between June 2011 and April 2012 includes five new grants.
  - Posted May. 8, 2012
• Ohio Third Frontier Approves $200,000 in Commercialization Grants to Kent State Researchers The Ohio Third Frontier program recently made three separate grants to Kent State University researchers through the newly established Technology Validation and Start-up Fund, which promotes the commercialization of Ohio technologies developed by the state’s institutions of higher education.
  - Posted May. 2, 2012
• Kent State Awarded $1.25 Million to Help Build Research and Education Network in Bangladesh An international partnership between Kent State University, the Ohio Academic Resource Network (OARnet) and Ireland’s National Research and Education Network (HEAnet) has been selected to provide advanced technical expertise in building the Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN) through an international competition.
  - Posted Apr. 24, 2012
• Kent State Professor Examines Link Between Parental Time Pressure and Depression
  - Posted Apr. 23, 2012
• CS Colloquium 4/20/2012 "Mining High-Throughput Biological Data"
  - Posted Apr. 17, 2012
• Kent State Professor Examines Link Between Parental Time Pressure and Depression A recently published paper by Kent State University Associate Professor Susan Roxburgh examines the association between depression and parental time pressures among employed married parents.
  
  
Roxburgh is a sociologist who has been with Kent State since 1994. The Journal of Family Issues published her paper “Parental Time Pressures and Depression among Married Dual-Earner Parents†in its most recent issue (November, 2011).
  - Posted Apr. 13, 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
• Department of Sociology: Achievements June 2011 – March 2012 Recent research activity conducted by Department of Sociology faculty members between June 2011 and March 2012 includes seven journal articles, one book chapter and two grants.
  - Posted Mar. 27, 2012
• Department of Psychology: Achievements June 2011 – March 2012 Recent research conducted by Department of Psychology faculty members between June 2011 and March 2012 includes two new grant awards; one book; 16 articles published in high impact journals (1-yr impact factor score > 3.0); two new editorships; and eight invited presentations.
  - Posted Mar. 27, 2012
• Department of Political Science: Achievements June 2011 – March 2012 Recent research conducted by Department of Political Science faculty members between June 2011 and March 2012 includes one book; 2 journal articles; and one grant.
  - Posted Mar. 27, 2012
• Department of Geography: Achievements June 2011 – April 2012 Recent research activity in the social sciences conducted by Department of Geography faculty members between June 2011 and March 2012 includes seven presentations.
  - Posted Mar. 27, 2012
• Department of Anthropology: Achievements June 2011 – April 2012 Recent research activity in the social sciences conducted by Department of Anthropology faculty members between June 2011 and April 2012 includes two journal articles, two invited presentations and several special appearances.
  - Posted Mar. 26, 2012
• Social Sciences Research Activity Since June 2011, faculty research activities in the social sciences have included many publications, grant awards, and invited presentations which have contributed to excellence at KSU. Examples include work by: Amoaba Gooden, David Kaplan, Katherine Rawson, John Dunlosky, Mark Seeman, Joshua Stacher, and Tiffany Taylor.
  - Posted Mar. 26, 2012
• Kent State Recognizes Outstanding Research and Scholar Award Recipients on March 28 Six Kent State University faculty members will be recognized during a ceremony on March 28 as the university honors its Outstanding Research and Scholar Award recipients.
  - Posted Mar. 26, 2012
• Self-management of Chronic Conditions: Adherence, behavior, and cognition The collaborative research of Joel Hughes and John Gunstad, both faculty members in the Department of Psychology, addresses issues of how cognitive functioning relates to self-management behaviors such as medication adherence among those with chronic conditions.
  - Posted Mar. 16, 2012
• KSU Foreign Language Academies Receive 2012 Funding from NSA Dr. Brian Baer and Prof. Theresa Minick awarded grant for 2012 KSU Startalk Foreign Language Academies in Russian, Arabic and Chinese.
  - Posted Mar. 14, 2012
• CS Colloquium 3/14/2012 "Big Data in Health Care: The Next Frontier in Clinical Research, Study Trial"
  - Posted Mar. 12, 2012
• Kent State Researcher Announces World Record Find: Oldest Evidence of Lobsters Living Together Discovered in Gas Shale Discovering direct animal behavior from the fossil record can only be done in exceptional circumstances. Such circumstances exist in the German Posidonia gas shale from the Jurassic period in which organic material from fossils is preserved. A treasure trove of fossils found in the Dotternhausen quarry south of Stuttgart, Germany, has now yielded a world record for fossil lobsters living together, according to Kent State University researcher Adiël Klompmaker.
  - Posted Mar. 9, 2012
• Kent State Receives Research Grant to Investigate Neurodegenerative Diseases
  - Posted Mar. 5, 2012
• Faculty from DSCI, CS, and MIS Participate in ACM's Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Kent State University was amply represented at this year's ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2012), with representatives from the School of Digital Sciences, the Department of Computer Science, and the Department of Management and Information Systems in attendance. ACM's premier conference on computer science education, SIGCSE 2012 was held in Raleigh NC and attracted almost 1300 attendees.
  - Posted Mar. 4, 2012
• CS Colloquium 3/9/2012 "Modeling and Computation for Large-scale Air Traffic Flow Optimization"
  - Posted Feb. 29, 2012
• Achievements 2011: Department of Philosophy Recent research conducted by Department of Philosophy faculty members includes one book and four journal articles or book chapters.
  - Posted Feb. 21, 2012
• Achievements 2011: Department of Pan-African Studies Recent research conducted by Department of Pan-African Studies faculty members includes six journal articles or book chapters.
  - Posted Feb. 21, 2012
• Achievements 2011: Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies Recent research activity conducted by Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies faculty members includes two books, six journal articles or book chapters, and three research grants.
  - Posted Feb. 21, 2012
• Achievements 2011: Department of History Recent research activity conducted by Department of History faculty members includes one book, seven journal articles or book chapters, and six research grants.
  - Posted Feb. 21, 2012
• Achievements 2011: Department of English Recent research activity conducted by Department of English faculty members includes three books, three poems, 12 journal articles or book chapters, and three grants.
  - Posted Feb. 21, 2012
• Humanities Research Activity Over the past year, the research activities of humanities faculty have included many publications, grant awards, and invited presentations which have enhanced the reputation of Kent State University.
  - Posted Feb. 21, 2012
• Hemingway Letters co-edited by Robert W. Trogdon The first volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon (Department of English), is receiving national and international attention
  - Posted Feb. 17, 2012
• Coeus Training Available for Spring 2012 Training sessions on Coeus, Kent's web-based proposal development system, will be offered beginning in February 2012.
  - Posted Feb. 14, 2012
• Discover Magazine ranks a discovery co-led by Kent State as the #3 physics/math story for 2011
  - Posted Feb. 13, 2012
• Prof. Jonathan I. Maletic awarded grant from ABB Inc. Prof. Jonathan I. Maletic was awarded a grant for $120K from ABB Inc.
  - Posted Feb. 3, 2012
• Prof. Ye Zhao Receives Google Faculty Research Award Prof. Ye Zhao has recently received a Google Faculty Research Award.
  - Posted Feb. 3, 2012
• Research Support Now in A&S The College of Arts & Sciences has established a research support function within the College office.
  - Posted Jan. 25, 2012
• Research Support Website To recognize research accomplishments and facilitate activity, the College of Arts and Sciences’ website has expanded to include a section dedicated to A&S Research. 
  - Posted Jan. 25, 2012
• A Thriller of a Discovery: Fossil Hermit Crab Named after Michael Jackson A Kent State University researcher was part of an international team of paleontologists that recently made a significant discovery in northern Spain. The group discovered a new family, genus and species of fossil hermit crab – one that lived 100 million years ago.
  - Posted Jan. 18, 2012
• Kent State Students Study Ancient Papyrus Four ambitious Kent State students have the rare opportunity to study an ancient Greek papyrus as part of an innovative program designed to mentor undergraduate students in the research and publication of ancient texts.
  - Posted Nov. 29, 2011
• Green Scholars papyrus story aired on WKSU WKSU interviews Dr. Larson and students about a publishing project for an unpublished Greek papyrus.
  - Posted Nov. 7, 2011
• A&S Research Incentives To support faculty research, the College of Arts & Sciences has initiated two research incentive programs, the A&S Research Advance Program, which is directed at mid-career faculty, and the A&S Resources & Tools Program, which will support travel to collections and the purchase of research tools and materials. The College will accept an initial round of applications at the beginning of Spring 2012 term.
  - Posted Oct. 31, 2011
• CS Colloquium 11/2/2011 "Rubik's Cube in Twenty Moves or Less" Rubik's Cube in Twenty Moves or Less -- Dr. Morley Davidson -- Mathematical Sciences Department -- Kent State University -- 3:45 pm, 2 November 2011, 228 MSB
  - Posted Oct. 29, 2011
• Rizal Mohd Nor and Mikhail Nesterenko Win Best Student Paper Award Rizal Mohd Nor, Mikhail Nesterenko (both of Kent State University) and Christian Scheideler (University of Padeborn) were awarded "best student paper" at the 13th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS) for their paper "Corona: A Stabilizing Deterministic Message-Passing Skip List".
  - Posted Oct. 26, 2011
• Kent State and Carnegie Mellon Receive $250,000 NSF Grant to Advance Computational Research The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a collaborative research grant to Kent State University and Carnegie Mellon University for a project to advance computational research. The $250,000 grant is part of the NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce program (CI-TEAM).
  - Posted Oct. 24, 2011
• 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
• Brasch Group Awarded NIH Grant to Study the Reactions of Vitamin B12 with Reactive Oxygen Species The Brasch group in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has been awarded $219 K from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the NIH to study the reactions of vitamin B12 with reactive oxygen species.
  - Posted Oct. 14, 2011
• Scholar Conducts Research at Kent State to Enhance Food Security in West Africa Nigerian scholar Moses Abiala is conducting research at Kent State University on molecular identification of soil microorganisms that can help develop indigenous biological fertilizer to enhance the growth of corn and other major cereal crops in West Africa.
  - Posted Oct. 10, 2011
• CS Colloquium 10/14/2011 "From Open-Loop Sensing to Closed-Loop Sensing and Control: Challenges to Embedded Wireless..." From Open-Loop Sensing to Closed-Loop Sensing and Control: Challenges to Embedded Wireless Networking --
  Dr. Hongwei Zhang --
  Computer Science Department --
  Wayne State University --
  4:00 pm, 14 October 2011, 228 MSB
  - Posted Oct. 7, 2011
• CS Colloquium 10/5/2011 "Computational Modeling Towards Two-Dimensional Annotation of Genomes" Computational Modeling Towards Two-Dimensional Annotation of Genomes -- Dr. Xuewen Chen -- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science -- University of Kansas -- 3:45 pm, 5 October 2011, 228 MSB
  - Posted Oct. 3, 2011
• What’s happening in the Middle East? Syndicated columnist gives an insider’s perspective for Cleveland audiences Recent Arab uprisings in the Middle East raise questions about the region’s stability and future. The editor-at-large for the Beirut-based Daily Star, and internationally syndicated columnist and author, Rami Khouri will engage Cleveland-area audiences in a discussion and dialogue about these events when he gives two free, public talks as the guest speaker in the new series, sponsored by the Northeast Ohio Consortium for Middle East Studies.
  - Posted Sep. 28, 2011
• CS Colloquium 9/30/2011 "Integrative-omics Identification of Signaling Pathway Networks..." Integrative-omics Identification of Signaling Pathway Networks and Clinical Associations in Cancer --
  Dr. Gurkan Bebek --
  Case Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics --
  Case Western University --
  3:45 pm, 30 September 2011, 228 MSB
  
  
  - Posted Sep. 26, 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
• Professors Awarded Grant to Develop New MRI Contrast Agents Professors Songping Huang (PI) and Soumitra Basu (co-PI) (both of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) have received a research grant from the National Cancer Institute at the NIH to develop a new generation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents.
  - Posted Aug. 26, 2011
• Professors Baker, Farrell and Nesterenko Awarded NSF/Intel Parallelism Curriculum Grant Professors Johnnie W.Baker, Paul A. Farrell, and Mikhail Nesterenko received an award inducting them into the NSF/TCPP Fall 2011 Early Adopter program.
  - Posted Aug. 24, 2011
• Researchers Receive NIH Grant Professor Soumitra Basu (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Professor Hamza Balci (Department of Physics) have recently received a $284,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to support their project, "A Conserved G-Rich Region Within Human TH Promoter Regulates Its Activity. - Posted Aug. 22, 2011
• Kent Biology Faculty Appointed as Associate Editor of the journal Chemistry and Physics of Lipids Dr. Edgar E. Kooijman, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Kent State, was recently appointed as new associate editor for the professional journal Chemistry and Physics of Lipids published by Elsevier.
  - Posted Aug. 19, 2011
• Prof. Mikhail Nesterenko Wins Best Paper Award Prof. Mikhail Nesterenko (Kent State University) and Sebastien Tixeuil (University of Paris) were awarded "Best Paper" at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2011) in Singapore.
  - Posted Aug. 9, 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. 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
• MCLS Students Attend Slavic Conference A delegation of MCLS undergraduate Russian majors and minors recently participated in the Midwest Slavic Conference at The Ohio State University in Columbus.
  - Posted May. 4, 2011
• 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. 
  - Posted Apr. 26, 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
• Weight Loss Improves Memory, According to Kent State Researcher John Gunstad, an associate professor in Kent State University’s Department of Psychology, and a team of researchers have discovered a link between weight loss and improved memory and concentration. The study shows that bariatric surgery patients exhibited improved memory function 12 weeks after their operations.
  
  - Posted Apr. 12, 2011
• Today’s Students Help Publish an Ancient Greek Work Kent State University students will soon have the chance to analyze and decipher an original Greek papyrus from antiquity, as part of a research project through the Green Scholars Initiative.
  - Posted Apr. 12, 2011
• Jakli receives 2010 Luckhurst-Samulski Prize
  - Posted Apr. 11, 2011
• CS Colloquium 4/1/2011 "STREAMIT: Dynamic Visualization and Interactive Exploration of Text Streams" Time: Friday, 1 April 2011, 3:45 - 5:00 PM --
  Place: MSB 228 --
  Speaker: Ye Zhao, Kent State University
  - Posted Mar. 17, 2011
• Professor Jaroniec is Named Among Top Materials Scientists in World Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor Mietek Jaroniec was named among the top 100 scientists in the area of materials science worldwide.
  - Posted Mar. 9, 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
• 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.
  - Posted Jan. 31, 2011
• Researchers Receive NSF Grant to Study Biomembrane Signaling Events Dr. Arne Gericke (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry) and Dr. Edgar E. Kooijman (Department of Biological Sciences) have received a $442,467 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the physicochemical foundations of lipid phosphomonoester group mediated signaling events.
  - Posted Jan. 26, 2011
• Professor Receives NSF Grant Supporting International Collaboration Dr. Hanbin Mao has received a three-year NSF award, Investigation of Novel Telomeric Structures and Their Effects on Human Telomerase (CHE 1026532).
  - Posted Jan. 26, 2011
• Department Receives NSF Grant to Improve 500 MHz NMR Spectrometer The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has received a $327,753 grant from the National Science Foundation (CHE-1048645) to improve its Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy facilities.
  - Posted Dec. 23, 2010
• Research Provides Better Understanding of Changes in Climate System For more than a decade, Dr. Joseph Ortiz, associate professor of geology at Kent State University and part of an international team of National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded researchers, has been studying long-term climate variability associated with El Niño.
  - Posted Dec. 2, 2010
• Professors Study Oldest Fossil Shrimp Preserved With Muscles Rodney Feldmann, professor emeritus, and Carrie Schweitzer, associate professor, from Kent State University’s Department of Geology report on the oldest fossil shrimp known to date in the world.
  - Posted Nov. 9, 2010
• 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
• Researchers from Kent State Say Practice Tests Improve Memory Although most people assume that tests are a way to evaluate learning, a wealth of research has shown that testing can actually improve learning, according to two researchers from Kent State University. Dr. Katherine Rawson, associate professor in Kent State’s Department of Psychology, and former Kent State graduate student Mary Pyc publish their research findings in the Oct. 15, 2010, issue of the journal Science.
  - Posted Oct. 14, 2010
• Kent State Receives $1 Million Grant from Department of Energy Three Kent State University professors recently received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a molecular analysis of carbon consumption. The three-year grant, awarded by the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research, will provide funding of $1,075,638 for the project.
  - Posted Oct. 7, 2010
• 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".
  - Posted Sep. 27, 2010
• Kent State Professor Helps Solve Rubik’s Cube Problem A long-standing problem behind one of the world’s most popular and addicting puzzles has been solved. A team of researchers, including Dr. Morley Davidson, an associate professor of mathematical sciences at Kent State University, has unveiled new research that finds that every position of the Rubik's Cube™ can be solved in 20 moves or less.
  - Posted Aug. 18, 2010
• Owen Lovejoy Helps Introduce a New Early Hominid Skeleton Meet “Lucy’s” Great-Grandfather. Kent State University Professor of Anthropology Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy helps introduce a new early hominid skeleton that confirms human-like walking to be surprisingly ancient.
  - Posted Jun. 21, 2010
• NIH Awards $2.7-Million Grant to Kent State The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $2.7-million grant to Kent State University for a collaborative research project with Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing, Summa Health System in Akron and University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland to study cognitive impairment in heart failure patients. The four-year grant from NIH’s National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute runs through Jan. 31, 2014.
  - Posted May. 6, 2010
• John Updegraff awarded NIDCR grant to improve oral health 2-year grant will develop strategies to improve adherence to oral health behaviors.
  - Posted Apr. 16, 2010
• Celebration of Scholarship, March 23-25 Events Schedule Kent State University hosts Celebration of Scholarship, an event that showcases the creative activity and exploratory nature of university scholars, on March 23 to 25. This year’s theme is “A Century of Curiosity: Local Collaborations That Have a World Impact.” The three-day event acknowledges, rewards and supports the culture of research at Kent State.
  - Posted Mar. 17, 2010
• Developing Cognitive Technology Katherine Rawson and John Dunlosky (pictured in the Research Center of Educational Technology) are developing cognitive technology to promote the efficiency and durability of student learning.
  - Posted Dec. 10, 2009
• EARS Kent State Receives $2.7 Million NSF Training Grant for Environmental Aquatic Resource Sensing
  - Posted Nov. 5, 2009
• Research Program on Mother-Child Relationships A graduate student from the Department of Psychology conducts an interview with a mother and her child, as part of Dr. Josefina Grau's research program on mother-child relationships among Puerto Rican adolescent mothers.
  - Posted Oct. 30, 2009
• A & S Translation Professor and Graduate Student Participate in a Mammography Teaching Project to Jinotepe, Nicaragua Radiology Mammography International, an Akron-based non-profit organization, recently completed a successful teaching project in the Regional Hospital Santiago in Jinotepe, Nicaragua, with the collaboration of a Kent State University’s translation faculty member and student.
  - Posted Oct. 25, 2009
• 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