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Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2022
By Lisa Abraham, photos by Rami Daud, BA ’20
Imagine a day when Ohio’s environment is unable to sustain native trees like the sugar maple, which produces the sap distilled into…
SURVIVAL OF THE TREES; Kent State Magazine; Spring/Summer 2022
Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2022 By Lisa Abraham, photos by Rami Daud, BA ’20 Imagine a day when Ohio’s environment is unable to sustain native trees like the sugar maple, which produces the sap distilled into…Image

Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2022
By Jillian Kramer, BA ’06
In their shared Biogeochemical Oceanography and Soil Science (or BOSS) laboratory at McGilvrey Hall, married couple Timothy Gallagher, PhD, and Allyson “…
ON LAND AND AT SEA; Kent State Magazine; Spring/Summer 2022
Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2022 By Jillian Kramer, BA ’06 In their shared Biogeochemical Oceanography and Soil Science (or BOSS) laboratory at McGilvrey Hall, married couple Timothy Gallagher, PhD, and Allyson “…Image

Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2022
By Jan Senn, photo by Greta Bell, BS '22
Let Our Powers Combine!” If you’re a millennial—or watched children’s TV shows in the early 1990s—that expression may ring a…
TAKING ACTION TO PROTECT THE PLANET; Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2022
Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2022 By Jan Senn, photo by Greta Bell, BS '22 Let Our Powers Combine!” If you’re a millennial—or watched children’s TV shows in the early 1990s—that expression may ring a…Image

Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2022
By Kat Braz and Jan Senn
GLOBAL CHALLENGE; Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2022
Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2022 By Kat Braz and Jan SennImage

Terms describing severe weather patterns like “El Niño” and “polar vortex” get bandied about on the nightly news without much context or definition. Understanding climates and how extreme weather and climate variability manifest and affect life on Earth helps put rising…
ANOMALOUS WEATHER PATTERNS; Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2022
Terms describing severe weather patterns like “El Niño” and “polar vortex” get bandied about on the nightly news without much context or definition. Understanding climates and how extreme weather and climate variability manifest and affect life on Earth helps put rising…Image

Kent State continues to establish itself as a leader in sustainability and environmental stewardship with solar installations—to attract students in environmental studies and research, to help our planet and to save money.
KENT STATE EXPANDS SOLAR INSTALLATIONS; Kent State Magazine; Spring/Summer 2022
Kent State continues to establish itself as a leader in sustainability and environmental stewardship with solar installations—to attract students in environmental studies and research, to help our planet and to save money.Image

Daffodil Hill, on Kent State University’s Kent Campus, is part of the May 4, 1970 site, which was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2016.
The cascade of flowers on the hill overlooking Kent State Commons was part of a concept by Kent State Professor Emeritus…
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE? MAINTAINING THE LIVING MEMORIAL OF DAFFODIL HILL; Kent State Today; May 6, 2022
Daffodil Hill, on Kent State University’s Kent Campus, is part of the May 4, 1970 site, which was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2016. The cascade of flowers on the hill overlooking Kent State Commons was part of a concept by Kent State Professor Emeritus…Image

The central component of the Grind2Energy systems at Kent State University are larger versions of the in-sink garbage disposals found in many homes. The difference is that at Kent State, these units aren’t disposing of food waste, but processing it with a purpose - as the first…