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Kathryn Owens continues her studies at Kent State University after she and her fiancé Caleb Frost walked through waist-high water to escape the flood left behind from Hurricane Harvey.

Kent State students continue to feel the impact of Hurricane Harvey on their education and families.

Kent State researchers use EEG caps to study the brain activity of monks during a debate.

Electroencephalogram (EEG) caps are helping Kent State University researchers unlock the secrets of the mind.

Kent State University researchers use indents and boarders on plates to study how optical illusions help people choose smaller portions.

Kent State researchers build optical illusions into plates to see how they can help us choose smaller portions and ultimately lose weight. 

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Kent State Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger examines new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger helps develop new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

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Eindhoven University of Technology researcher Anne Hélène Gélébart shows the walking device. This small device is the world’s first machine to convert light directly into walking, simply using one fixed light source. (Photo credit: Bart van Overbeeke)

Professor Robin Selinger of Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute® helps develop new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Ideastream talks with Kent State University Professor Angela Neal-Barnett about the relationship between racial stress and infant mortality.

Ideastream® talks with Kent State University Psychology Professor Angela Neal-Barnett about the relationship between racial stress in black women and ways to reduce the stress before it affects pregnancy.

Kent State University’s Center for Applied Conflict Management is transforming into a new School of Peace and Conflict Studies.

Kent State University’s Center for Applied Conflict Management is transforming into a new School of Peace and Conflict Studies this month.

WKYC-TV talks with Kent State researchers about the Acting White Accusation.

Kent State Professor Angela Neal-Barnett shares her Acting White Accusation research with WKYC-TV and Anxiety.org.