Kent State University architecture students partnered with officials from the city of Sandusky, Ohio, for an opportunity to create new theoretical designs for some of downtown Sandusky’s vacant buildings and empty sites. Sixty-four architecture majors, enrolled in a fourth-year senior design studio, were tasked with researching and developing a building program to rejuvenate parts of the downtown area. “The assignment asked students to develop their own building program, which included hotels, museums, music venues, urban agriculture and lake research, and transform them into use for existin...

For Robert Twieg, Ph.D., a professor in Kent State University’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the recent news of his longtime collaborator William E. Moerner winning the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was actually no surprise at all. In fact, he believes that “he’s deserved it for a while.” On Oct. 8, Moerner, a professor at Stanford University, was one of three researchers to win the prize for “the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.” These researchers developed new techniques that give microscopes much sharper vision than was originally thought possible, and...