When the topic is career choices for women in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math) the job of fashion designer may not immediately come to mind.  But it should, says Tameka Ellington Ph.D., Kent State University associate professor of fashion. From the geometry needed to design, measure and cut dress patterns to the math needed to crunch sales figures and retail data, Dr. Ellington recently explained to WKYC’s Betsy Kling how fashion is very much a STEM career. “The business of fashion has a lot to do with retail math,” Dr. Ellington said. “Also, when yo...

Yanhai Du, Ph.D, acquired the largest grant award in Kent State’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering (CAE) history when the U.S. Office of Naval Research invested in his “Laser-Sintering System for Research on Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Fuel Cells.” The $485,000 award came in the summer of 2017 for CAE’s associate professor, but only recently has his vision for the funding been put into motion. A new laboratory with safety elements to house a 3D metal printing machine is currently under construction. This equipment complements the college’s Stratasys Objet260 Connex3 3D polymer ...

Dr. Mietek Jaroniec, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences and one of the most highly cited scientists in the fields of chemistry and materials science, recently received two more significant honors. He was appointed to the editorial board of the journal Science Advances, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which also publishes the journal Science. In addition, he accepted an invitation to attend an award ceremony in his native Poland to receive Doctor Honoris Causa from ...

This semester, Kent State University’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising, an Ohio Center of Excellence, added a new graduate-level educational experience to its highly nationally and internationally ranked offerings. The new program, a Master of Fashion Industry Studies (M.F.I.S.), is the first of its kind in the academic world.  While other graduate degrees can be applied to many specialties, the Master of Fashion Industry Studies is exclusively focused on the fashion industry. This two-year initial master’s-level degree is designed for the academic advancement of individuals...