Departmental News
Kent State Scientists Help Measure Primordial Matter at Trillions of Degrees
Oct. 14, 2025
UPTON, N.Y. — October 14, 2025 — An international team of researchers has directly measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) — the superhot primordial matter that filled the universe just millionths of a second after the Big Bang. Among the leaders of this…
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US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY GRANTS PRESTIGIOUS RESEARCH AWARD TO PHYSICS PHD STUDENT
Sept. 2, 2025
US Department of Energy grants graduate student research award (SCGSR) to Physics PhD student Maci Kesler at Kent State University
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Kent State University physics alumna Dr. Dekrayat Almaalol receives 2024 Leona Woods Lectureship Award
April 22, 2024
Kent State University Physics alumna Dr. Dekrayat Almaalol receives 2024 Leona Woods Lectureship Award from Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Kent State University hosts total eclipse events
April 8, 2024
Kent State University hosts the total eclipse events.
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Kent State University Department of Physics hosts eclipse planetarium shows and more
March 31, 2024
Kent State University Department of Physics hosts eclipse planetarium shows and more.
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Dr. Oleg Lavrentovich and collaborators publish an article in Science on ferroelectric liquid crystals
March 22, 2024
Dr. Lavrentovich, professor of Physics at Kent State University, and collaborators publish an article in Science.
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Lecture Hall, Event Space, or Night Sky?
March 19, 2024
Did you know we have a planetarium? Well, we do. Smith Hall at Kent State University is home to this versatile room that can be used for classes, events and can even replicate an easier-to-see version of the night sky.
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Dr. Zhangbu Xu joins the Kent State University Department of Physics faculty
March 18, 2024
The Kent State University Department of Physics is proud to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Zhangbu Xu.
Read More »Physics professor receives a DOE topical collaboration grant to study heavy-quark physics
Jan. 23, 2023
Dr. Michael Strickland's group will participate in a new Topical Theory Collaboration funded by DOE’s Office of Nuclear Physics to explore the behavior of heavy flavor particles. The collaboration will receive $2.5 Million from the DOE Office of Science, Office of Nuclear…
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Research Update: Studying neutron stars with gravitational waves
Oct. 11, 2022
Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the universe, and as such, the conditions at the cores of these extreme objects are impossible to reproduce on Earth. However, we can use data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo…
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