By Leah GrahamNational Campus Sustainability Day is devoted to recognizing successes, challenges and innovations of sustainability in higher education across campuses nationwide. The theme for this year's Campus Sustainability Day is "Empowering Change on Campus and in the Community." Kent State University's Office of Sustainability has coordinated events for the day, including a virtual campus sustainability tour via Twitter l@kentstatesusly) and partnering with other sustalnability related groups working to empower change on campus and in the community.Stud...
Kent State University will host its second annual Water Research Symposium on Friday, Oct. 31, from 8 a.m. to S:30 p.m. at the Kent State Hotel and Confenmce Center, located at 215 Depeyster St in Kent, Ohio. This symposium will showcase leading-edge research and innovative practices on water issues, including the ecology of water, water policy, green design and urban infrastructure, and stonn water management. Keynote speaker, David L. Sedlak, Ph.D., the Malo7.Cllloff Professor in Mineral Engineering, co-director of the Berkeley Water Center and director of the Institute for Environmenta...
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Kent State University on Thursdaywill formally launch a two-year, $33.5 million construction project involving renovation and new construction that will bring its visual arts program under one roof for the first time since 1960. The Center for the Visual Arts will be the new home for KSU's School of Art, and it will include the renovation of Van Deusen Hall and the Art Annex, formerly the university's heating plant. Both existing buildings will be linked with new construciton. The new art complex is a series of projects at KSU including a new architecture building.In all, the new visual a...
By Cindy Weiss Over the vast expanse of Lake Erie, sampling the water to test for potentially toxic algal blooms may seem like using a medicine dropper in an ocean. It takes days to collect enough data from enough spots to determine if the algae pose a danger. To cover a larger area more efficiently and better predict future algal blooms, Joseph D. Ortiz, Ph.D., professor of geology in Kent state University's College of Arts and Sciences, is gathering data from an instrument on board the International Space Station - a hyperspectral imager. From space, it can image the entire lake in...