Events


Upcoming Events 


May 7, 2013
NSF CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop

  • Workshop web page
  • To be held in the Kent Student Center, Room 310 AB

 

Past Events


April 29, 2013

Annual Symposium on The Neuroscience of Mental Health

  • Event web site
  • The symposium was held in the Kent Student Center, Kiva, on the Kent State University, Kent Campus.  The event was free and open to the public.   
  • Featured keynote addresses by:
    • Kevin Guskiewicz, Kenan Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and 
    • Randy Nelson, Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at The Ohio State University

April 22-23, 2013
Meta-Analysis Workshop


April 23, 2013 (1:00 - 5:00 PM)
Panel Discussion on NIH Funding Programs

Research and Sponsored Programs hosted a Panel Discussion on NIH Funding Programs to familiarize KSU researchers with the NIH programs and strong proposal writing techniques. A panel of four experts, who have a track record of a decade or more of continuous extramural federal funding and have served on NIH Study Sections, discussed all different aspects of the NIH funding process including:
  • The types of NIH grant programs (e.g., RO1, RO3, R15, R21)
  • NIH requirements and proposal submission
  • The process of collecting/organizing required information and preparation of proposal components
  • Strategies for success
  • Techniques for writing winning proposals: Project Summary and Project Description
  • Avoiding common and fatal mistakes
  • Review Criteria: intrinsic scientific significance, preparation of investigators, innovations, technical approach, and institutional environment, and impact on society
  • Understanding reviewers' critiques and how to benefit from them 
The panel also discussed what transpires in a Study Section; how various criteria are applied and the merits of the proposal judged, the types of questions/concerns likely to be raised and how to preempt them, etc.

 

April 17, 2013

2nd Annual Symposium on Advances in Organic Photovoltaics

April 5, 2013
Regional Research Roundtable

  • Event held at the Twinsburg Campus from 8:30 a.m - 4:30 p.m.
  • Organized by the Kent State University Regional Campuses Research Committee which was formed to explore shared opportunities for research at the university's regional campuses and locations
  • This one-day roundtable was held to facilitate communication among faculty at Kent State and its regional campuses to improve research, funding and collaboration.

March 20, 2013

Switch

Switch, a film about the future of energy will be playing in the Kiva on Monday March 18 and Wednesday March 20 at 7:15 p.m.  This screening is free. 

Press release about Switch

 

March 19, 2013

2013 Kent State University Outstanding Research and Scholarship Awards

Event held at the Music and Speech Building to honor three Kent State University outstanding researchers and scholars.  The 2013 award recipients are:
  • Professor Michael Loderstedt, School of Art
  • Professor Katherine Rawson, Department of Psychology
  • Professor Carrie Schweitzer, Department of Geology, Kent State University at Stark

A welcome reception was held in the Roe Green Center Lobby in the Music and Speech Building at 5:15 p.m., followed by an awards ceremony at 6 p.m. in the Ludwig Recital Hall. A special performance by members of the Cleveland Orchestra and Kent State's Professor of Music Donna Lee took place at 6:30 p.m.
 

February 28, 2013

Human Performance Workshop: "New Frontiers in Human Performance

  • Workshop home page
  • The workshop was held at Kent State University, Kent Student Center, Room 204, from 12:30-6:00 PM.
  • For more information, contact Dr. Michael Bloom (mbloom11@kent.edu).
  • The workshop provided a forum for participants to share critical paths in research, seek collaborators, and identify new frontiers in human performance.
  • Supported by Case Western Reserve University and Kent State University.
  • Workshop Flyer [PDF]

February 26, 2013

Corporate Research Forum - "From the Ground Up" - on the Detection and Prevention of Diabetic Foot Ailments

  • An event summary will be posted soon.

Liquid Crystal Day 2012:  "What's Beyond the Horizon"

  • The Liquid Crystal Day, a biennial one-day symposium was held November 8, 2012 in the Kent State Student Center, Kent Campus.  The event was free and open to the public.
  • The symposium consisted of invited talks and contributed poster presentations. 
  • Industrial exhibitors included Kent Displays, Sigma-Aldrich, HANA Microdisplay Technologies, and AlphaMicron.

Seminar by Prof. George Whitesides, Harvard University, on October 9, 2012: "Simplicity as a Component of Invention"

  • Seminar was held October 9, 2012 in the Kent Student Center, Kiva Auditorium. Whitesides Research Group home page
  • Abstract: "Complexity" is relatively simple to think about (at least for academics); "simplicity" is more complex.  This seminar will consider "simplicity" (together with an idea we call "stackability") as a parameter in research, using two examples--one from ongoing large-scale technology, and one from our own research.
  • Related video:  Professor Whitesides TED talk (Feb. 2010) on "Toward a Science of Simplicity"

Symposium on Flexible Liquid Crystal Devices

  • Symposium was held September 26-27, 2012 in the Kent Student Center, Kiva Auditorium
  • Symposium home page

Symposium on "Advances in Organic Photovoltaics" - Featuring a Keynote Presentation by Dr. Alan Heeger (2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry)

  • Symposium was held April 17, 2012 at Kent State University, Kent Campus, Kiva Auditorium
  • Symposium home page

2012 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Awards

  • Award recipients were announced on the Kent State University home page on March 26. 
  • The event (ceremony and reception) was held on March 28 at 5:30 PM in the Cartwright Hall lobby (atrium).
  • Dr. John Harris, (Yale University) gave a public lecture "An Odyssey Through Our Universe" at 7 PM in the Cartwright Hall Auditorium following the Awards Ceremony.  Both events were free and open to the public.

Celebration of Scholarship

Research Partnerships Forum

Workshops

 

(pictured above)  Dr. Alan Heeger, professor of physics and professor of materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara was the keynote speaker at the Symposium on Advances in Organic Photovoltaics on April 17, 2012.  A Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2000), Heeger is widely known for his pioneering research in and the co-founding of the field of semiconducting and metallic polymers.

 

 
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