1, 2, 3, 4 – PC power settings to save you more. 5, 6, 7, 8 – Don’t forget to activate! Did You Know? More than 3,000 businesses and organizations have pledged to activate power management settings on their computers. These users save an estimated 2 billion kilowatt hour each year! Actions You Can Take Make sure the computer power management features are activated, both at work and at home. IT teams: Learn how activating computer power management settings universally at your company can reduce your environmental footprint and utility costs at www.energystar.gov/lowcarbonIT. ...
It’s that nagging question you ask yourself every Thanksgiving after you have piled the food sky-high on your plate and savored every last morsel: “What happened? Were my eyes bigger than my stomach?” For many years, doctors and dieticians have focused on overeating as part of the reason for the obesity epidemic in America. There is sound science behind the predisposition to fill our plates with what we think is a reasonable portion, only to find ourselves overeating anyway. However, a new study by Kent State University researchers aims to help us use the tricks that our eyes play on us to c...
Collaboration is anything but virtual between Kent State University at Stark and Kent State University at Tuscarawas. In fact, the computer design, animation and game design partnership has been a reality for nearly a decade. This fall, Kent State Stark will host students in a newly designed classroom and Virtual Reality Room in Main Hall. “What is it we need to do to accommodate this growing program? That was our first question,” says A. Bathi Kasturiarachi, Ph.D., associate dean for academic affairs at Kent State Stark. “Prior to this point, the program had been based at Kent Stat...
Herb Page, Kent State University’s director of golf and head men’s golf coach, has been selected to serve as one of the head coaches of the International team at the 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup on July 6-8 at Evian Resort Golf Club in France. Page will team with Stanford University head women’s coach Anne Walker as the top college golfers from around the world take on the top college golfers in the United States. The 2018 event expands the Ryder Cup-style team format that previously featured college players from Europe battling the USA. It is also the only major tournament in the world that will...
The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, Sept. 13. The Board is scheduled to convene at 2:45 p.m. in the Timken Active Learning Classroom (Room 190) in the new Integrated Sciences Building. Adjacent to the Student Green and Williams Hall, the Integrated Sciences Building is located at 1175 Lefton Esplanade in Kent, Ohio. Trustees will retire into executive session from 7:30-9 a.m. in Room 251G to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” Board committees will meet as follows: Committee of the Whol...
Kent Campus
Electroencephalogram (EEG) caps are helping Kent State University researchers unlock the secrets of the mind. David Fresco, Ph.D., professor and director of Kent State’s Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation Laboratory (PERL) and co-director of the Kent Electrophysiological Neuroscience Laboratory (KENL), returned to the Sera Jey Monastery in Bylakuppe, India, to better understand what goes on in the brains of monks as they hold a debate. The researchers are studying brain activity, specifically what happens when neurons synchronize. “Are they activating the same parts of their brain...
1, 2, 3, 4 – PC power settings to save you more. 5, 6, 7, 8 – Don’t forget to activate! DID YOU KNOW? More than 3,000 businesses and organizations have pledged to activate power management settings on their computers. These users save an estimated 2 billion kilowatt hour each year! ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE Make sure the computer power management features are activated, both at work and at home. IT teams: Learn how activating computer power management settings universally at your company can reduce your environmental footprint and utility costs at www.energystar.gov/lowcarbonIT. ...
College of Arts & Sciences
Below is the schedule for the Fall Colloquium series, starting with the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality's Director, Dr. Molly Merryman. · Molly Merryman, “Red Umbrella Rights: An Ethnographically-Based Documentary About Sex Worker Activism.” September 29, 3-4, with reception after (See attached flyer.) · Carla Goar, “Title: TBA.” October 20, 3-4, with reception after · Mathew Guest, “Title: TBA.” November 10, 3-4, with reception after ...