It’s been nearly three decades since Rob Senderoff walked around downtown Albany, New York, with the same eyes as the young men he now coaches.   “I’m having a blast. I’m really having a blast,” Senderoff said as he prepares his Kent State team to play in the NCAA Tournament in a city he knows so well.    A 1995 graduate of the University at Albany, Senderoff spent his college days as a student assistant on the Great Danes’ staff on his way to a career in coaching. “I tried out for the junior varsity team here at Albany – it was a Division III school at...

Abstract: In external fields wide range of surface instabilities can be observed in fluids, like the Rosensweig instability in ferrofluids in presence of magnetic field or the Rayleigh-Taylor cone instability in electric field. After the recent discovery of polar nematic materials [1], which have a ferroelectric nematic phase, an obvious question arises: Can an electric field driven surface instability be observed in these materials? We studied the liquid crystal RM734 that exhibits both a ferroelectric and a normal dielectric nematic phase. We investigated the response of RM734 droplets to...

The Kent State University community gathered Wednesday at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center to send off the Golden Flashes to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament. In addition, city of Kent community members also cheered for the men’s basketball team as the team bus went through downtown Kent on its way to the airport. Go Flashes! Kent State will play Indiana University on Friday, March 17, in the first round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament in Albany, New York. Tipoff will be at 9:55 p.m. Friday. The game will be aired on TBS and on the Kent State Ra...