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Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 09:30am
For most, the craft known as flintknapping is a skilled hobby or art form that was thought to occasionally require bandages or stitches. However, new research suggests flintknapping is far more dangerous than previously understood.
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 09:46am
Please join us in congratulating Master's student Michael Bliss on his recent award from The Explorers Club. The Explorers club, started in 1904, is housed in New York City and is a multidisciplinary, professional society that is…
Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 03:19pm
Our archaeologists collaborated with Steve Rinella and the crew at Meateater to find out how well the Ice Age stone toolkit would work to butcher a bison. Watch the episode here: …
Friday, January 27, 2023 - 07:57am
Gessiane Pereira joined the Takeshita lab at Kent State University in 2022 as a visiting scholar to work on part of her PhD dissertation entitled: “Monitoring senescence and stress levels in neotropical primates”. Gessi has a Bachelor's degree in veterinary medicine and a Master…
Monday, January 23, 2023 - 09:22am
Researchers from Kent State University and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center were recently awarded a two-year National Institute on Aging grant (1R21AG080216-01) for $625,478. Supported by the National Institutes of Health’s Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative funds,…
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 - 12:01pm
Emilee Hart, Doctoral Candidate in Human Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biomedical Sciences won Second Place in the Three Minute Thesis Competition. Her presentation on 'The Color Changing Gibbon" outlined her dissertation research that she is conducting in Dr. Rafaela…
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 - 03:50pm
Monday, October 10, 2022 - 03:24pm
This summer, 21 Kent State faculty and staff members and 144 students embarked on journeys abroad. On these impactful faculty-led education abroad programs, students were able to deeply explore their course content in context with their faculty experts.
Archaeology of Ireland…
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022 - 11:02am
Kent State University’s newest anthropologist, Assistant Professor Aldo Cimino, Ph.D., has made it his life’s work to understand the causes and consequences of hazing, including the possible generation of solidarity. He and his co-author recently published an…
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Friday, July 29, 2022 - 02:05pm
Sometimes it just takes a small spark to ignite a fire within you.