Students work in the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

The average person spends about three hours on their smartphone a day. In that time spent scrolling, do you ever stop to wonder what materials your phone screen is made of or why it works? These screens are made from nematic liquid crystals, the most common form of the fourth state of matter that exists between liquid and solid. Four Kent State University professors, Antal Jakli, Ph.D., professor of materials science; Robert Tweig, Ph.D., professor of chemistry; and Samuel Sprunt, Ph.D., and James Gleeson, Ph.D., both professors of physics, are among the first to investigate how ferroele...

Kent State Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center filled with fans for basketball season.

Kent State (28-6) will play Indiana on Friday, March 17, in the first round of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament in Albany, New York. Tickets will be available here starting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. Tipoff will be at 9:55 p.m. on Friday and will be aired on TBS and on the Kent State Radio Network.  ...

Women's basketball team

Kent State will travel to Syracuse for a 2023 Postseason WNIT first round contest on Wednesday, March 15. Tip inside the JMA Wireless Dome is scheduled for 7 p.m. ...

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