Goal: To elevate the profile of neuroscience and bring together people from different disciplines to expand discoveries in preventing and treating brain disease.
“This has been a great opportunity to do research, and I plan on having my own research lab once I graduate.”
—Nathan Ritchey, BS ’22, mathematics and neuroscience major, Brain Health Research Institute fellow, capstone project: “Increasing Quality of Life for Spinal Cord Injury.”
Design Innovation
The Design Innovation (DI) initiative focuses on developing solutions by reaching across academic fields and partnering with industry to enhance collaboration, communication skills and creativity.
Design Innovation is an ecosystem of physical, human and intellectual resources to help students become creative, intersectional problem-solvers. Coursework and co-curricular projects, competitions, hackathons and grand challenges bolster this “challenge-based innovation” strategy.
Kent State was recognized in Newsweek’s 2021 list of the Best Maker Schools in Higher Education, an international list that includes some of the most prestigious universities in the world.