Newsletter, March 2018

Fundamentally, liquid crystals are all about chemistry … just like the human body. A trio of new patents secured by a Kent State University researcher shows how a novel application of this ever-evolving technology may soon yield answers to some of the world’s most pressing medical dilemmas.

Researchers in Soumitra Basu’s chemistry lab cut open the balls to examine the cores using a thermogravimetric analysis (TGA).
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Photo Caption:
A Kent State University baseball pitcher hurls a ball toward the plate.

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While wearable technology is all the rage among high school and college-aged Americans, the average student may not know much about the science behind their high-tech apparel.

A grant from the National Science Foundation will help a Kent State physics professor make progress on both fronts.

A recent publication by Kent State geographers sheds more light on the causes of the Cambodian genocide that wiped out roughly a quarter of the country’s population in the late 1970s.

Research always begins with a question.
In Metin Eren’s archaeology lab at Kent State University, that question seems to be “why did they make it that way?” and the answers often seem to defy conventional wisdom.