The development of liquid crystal technology in Northeast Ohio - and specifically at Kent State University - is an important part of the region’s and university’s legacies and ongoing global impact. Capturing the innovations and the university’s part in these discoveries is the goal of a new grant. Matthew Crawford, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of History at Kent State, was awarded an Ohio History Fund grant of $16,000 for the Liquid Crystal Oral History Project. Crawford is the project director and will be working with the Department of Special Collections and Archives at K...
Kent State University celebrated its 112th birthday on May 19 by launching its first-ever Day of Giving and raising $65,000 from more than 350 alumni, friends and partners in 24 hours to support a variety of scholarships. The blue and gold community came together as part of the university’s Forever Brighter comprehensive campaign. The giving day featured more than 25 scholarship funds and an opportunity to match individual gifts up to $500 until the $15,000 in matching funds were exhausted. The gifts made on the Day of Giving will help students on all Kent State campuses focus on their educ...
Congratulations to Drs. Metin Eren, Department of Anthropology, Angela Neal-Barnett, Department of Psychological Sciences, and Mietek Jaroniec, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, who are 2022 recipients of the President’s Faculty Excellence Award. The annual award is granted to faculty who have demonstrated extraordinary achievement in research, service, or teaching which has led to national or international recognition. It is a distinct honor to receive this award. Among this year’s winners: Angela Neal-Barnett, PhD, Department of Psychological Sciences Professor Angela Nea...
Kent Blossom Music at the Museum
Join us on Sunday, July 31 for the Kent Blossom Music Festival - Young Artist Concert Series at the KSU Museum. This series features the accomplished Young Artists who attend Kent Blossom Music Festival each summer hailing from schools of music and concervatories worldwide.
Young Artists Concert 5*
Beethoven, Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola in D Major, Op. 25
Devienne, Quartet for Bassoon, Violin, Viola and Cello in C Major, Op. 73, No. 1
Bliss, Quintet for Oboe and String Quartet
Kent Blossom Music at the Museum
Join us on Sunday, July 17 for the Kent Blossom Music Festival - Young Artist Concert Series at the KSU Museum. This series features the accomplished Young Artists who attend Kent Blossom Music Festival each summer hailing from schools of music and concervatories worldwide.
SPCS faculty member Molly Merryman was selected to join the inaugural class of Kent State University's Design Innovation (DI) Faculty Fellows program. The fellowship is based in the DI HUB, where Molly will focus on her project “Queering Academic and Scholarly Space: Theoretical, Pedagogical and Applied Work,” while supporting Design Innovation Hub outreach and teaching, as well as building meaningful connections between DI and Peace and Conflict Studies. This project continues to build on Merryman's work as research director for Queer Britain, the United Kingdom's national LGBTQ+ museum. ...
School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kent State University Visiting Researcher/Visiting Practitioner Program: Call for Applications The Visiting Researcher (VR)/Visiting Practitioner (VP) Program provides funding for an expert in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies to spend up to three months at the School of Peace and Conflict Studies (SPCS), to undertake research. The funding will support the costs of travel to Kent State as well as accommodation and subsistence whilst located at SPCS. During their time at SPCS the VR/VP will be expected to (i) undertake research that wi...
Everyone expects Death Valley in July to be "hot" and Minneapolis in February to be "cold", right? Much research has been done to study the extreme temperature events that take place in these and other regions. But, what about 81 degrees in Anchorage in July or 2 degrees in Dallas in February? Such events are often called "relative" extreme temperature events – relative to the time of the year and how acclimatized the local population is to them. Less studied, though potentially more impactful, relative temperature extremes are a topic that two Kent State University geography p...