Fraction arithmetic is a foundational skill in mathematics education, and identifying effective ways to assess and enhance this skill is crucial to promoting student success. Three Kent State University professors have been awarded a grant to develop an advanced machine learning tool to assess children's proficiency in fraction arithmetic. The team behind the project includes Karl Kosko, Ph.D., and Rick Ferdig, Ph.D., both from the Kent State School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies; and Qiang Guan, Ph.D., from the Kent State Department of Computer Science. This collabo...

This summer, Kent State University senior Delonte Goodman was a first-time participant in the SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience), which allowed him to further his research skills and knowledge while nurturing important relationships with mentors in the laboratory.  Goodman spent the summer working under the direction of mentor Tony Jakli, Ph.D., professor at the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, whose graduate student, Alex Adaka, was conducting dielectric measurements for ferronematic liquid crystals. These liquid crystals are a new type that has spurr...

Kent State University Assistant Professor Sarah Black, Ph.D., has been awarded a prestigious three-year grant of $426,610 from the National Institute of Health (NIH) for research on "Exploring Parent-Child Synchrony in Depressed and Non-Depressed Dyads."  The primary objective of Black's research is to shed light on the complex interplay between parental mental health and the quality of parent-child interactions. With a specific focus on depressed and non-depressed parental groups, Black's study seeks to understand how parental depressive symptoms may influence parent-child interaction...

Kent State University Professor Mei-Chen Lin, Ph.D., from the School of Communication Studies and her co-PIs (Mina Choi, Ph.D., Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea and Jihyun Kim, Ph.D., University of Central Florida), and Matthew Craig (doctoral candidate, Kent State University) have been awarded a one-year grant of $11,588 from the National Communication Association (NCA) to support her research project focused on investigating the effects of Virtual Reality (VR) contact on American domestic students' attitudes toward international students.  Lin's research is at the ...

Penn & Teller’s The Foolers materializes at the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University - Tuscarawas on Tuesday, September 26 at 7:30 p.m. Curated and endorsed by the celebrated duo, Penn & Teller, The Foolers is a new interactive live production that brings four of the world’s best illusionists together on stage for an interactive and irreverent evening of mind-bending magic. Regarded as some of television’s trickiest magicians, the four featured illusionists - Alex Ramon, Jessica Jane Peterson, Matt Donnelly, and Vinny Grosso – achieved the difficult task of impressing ...