Brain Health Research Institute

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Kent State’s Brain Health Research Institute recently welcomed 94 fourth-grade students from the I PROMISE School in Akron, Ohio, for a day of activities aimed at sparking their interest in science and technology. These young “Brainiacs” were immersed in a variety of activities to learn about career opportunities that are available in t...

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Kent State University’s Brain Health Research Institute sponsored a Research Skills Workshop, to allow students and faculty to learn how to operate the state-of-the-art technology located in the Integrated Sciences Building.  The workshop was a lead-in event to the institute’s 11th Annual Neuroscience Symposium, held Oct. 26-2...

Leigh Hochberg, M.D., Ph.D., gives the keynote address at the 11th Annual Neuroscience Symposium at Kent State University.

Imagine a tiny microsensor implanted in someone’s brain, allowing that person to transfer their thoughts through the sensor and into a computer where they would appear as text on screen – opening a world of communication that previously had been cut off for patients with paralysis or other diseases.  Those types of innovations and ...

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Engineers from Leica install the new NLO microscope in the Integrated Sciences Building on the Kent Campus in June 2023.

Kent State University researchers are beginning to use a new high-tech microscope that will allow them to view the structure of cell tissue on a more intense level.  A new multimodal nonlinear optical microscope, or NLO, capable of various image scattering techniques using lasers, was installed in the Integrated Sciences Building o...

Engineers from Leica install the new NLO microscope in the Integrated Sciences Building on the Kent Campus in June 2023.

Kent State University researchers are beginning to use a new high-tech microscope that will allow them to view the structure of cell tissue on a more intense level.  A new multimodal nonlinear optical microscope, or NLO, capable of various image scattering techniques using lasers, was installed in the Integrated Sciences Building o...

Brazilian educators at Cleveland sign

On May 15, a group of educators from Brazil arrived on the Kent Campus of Kent State University to begin a two-week program, designed to help them explore models of education in Northeast Ohio and determine how they might implement them in their schools and throughout Brazil’s network of educational institutions. The program, called the...

From Kent State University's Division of Research & Economic Development Kent State University is pleased to announce the two winners of both the Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award and Excellence in Graduate Research Mentorship Award. As part of the nomination process, each nominee received a s...

Kent State graduate student Thywill Ettey, a third-year doctoral student in the School of Biomedical Sciences, conducts laboratory research.

Kent State University’s Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI) will be welcoming a bevy of accomplished alumni back to the Kent Campus when it hosts the 10th Annual Neuroscience Symposium on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 27 and 28.  The two-day program will celebrate Kent State’s unique contributions to our understanding of the brain a...

Benjamin Campbell, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, speaks at Kent State as part of its ongoing Brain Health Research Institute's Seminar Series.

Kent State University’s Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI) hosted Benjamin Campbell, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, as part of its ongoing BHRI Seminar Series.  Campbell spoke on Sept. 27, at the Integrated Sciences Building on the Kent Campus, on the topic o...

An image of a purple line drawing of a brain on a black background

Min-Ho Kim, Ph.D., associate professor of Biological Sciences, and Woo-Yang Kim, Ph.D., associate professor of Biological Sciences, have been awarded an NIH grant, a $1,876,627 five-year grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Aging, for their research in “Magnetothermal brain stimulation towards the rescue of beta-amyloid pathology”. ...