Dear Kent State University Faculty and Staff,
The Ohio Latino Affairs Commission and Kent State will host the 2023 Ohio Latino Affairs Summit from
9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 15, at the university’s Kent Campus. Attendance is free, but registration is required.
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 ...
A new study led by Archaeologist Michelle Bebber, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Kent State University’s Department of Anthropology, has demonstrated that the atlatl (i.e. spear thrower) functions as an “equalizer,” a finding which supports women’s potential active role as prehistoric hunters. Bebber co-authored an article “Atlatl use equalizes female and male projectile weapon velocity,” which was published in the journal Nature: Scientific Reports. Her co-authors include Metin I. Eren and Dexter Zirkle (a recent Ph.D. graduate) also in the Department of Anthropology at Kent State, Brigg...
