Looking for information about Kent State University’s men’s basketball team and the 2023 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament? The Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has launched a 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament page to assist Golden Flashes fans. The page includes information about tickets, a pregame reception for Golden Flashes who are making the trip to Albany, New York, and how to listen to the team’s tournament games. Fans can also find a tournament bracket. Watch Parties For those who cannot travel and attend the games in person, watch parties are available so that ...

Bob Rader’s path to becoming a Golden Flash was anything but traditional.  In 2018, the retired chemical engineer needed prostate cancer surgery. He had been treated with radiation for the cancer before, but newly elevated PSA levels signaled that it was time for surgery to stem the cancer’s recurrence.   The surgery, at Cleveland Clinic Akron General, went well. Yet something was wrong.  “I wasn’t coming out of the anesthesia well,” he recalled.  Rader was disoriented and could not answer simple questions or recognize people he knew. He had trouble fee...

The average person spends about three hours on their smartphone a day. In that time spent scrolling, do you ever stop to wonder what materials your phone screen is made of or why it works? These screens are made from nematic liquid crystals, the most common form of the fourth state of matter that exists between liquid and solid. Four Kent State University professors, Antal Jakli, Ph.D., professor of materials science; Robert Tweig, Ph.D., professor of chemistry; and Samuel Sprunt, Ph.D., and James Gleeson, Ph.D., both professors of physics, are among the first to investigate how ferroele...