College of Arts and Sciences

President’s Medal Recipient

Kent Campus

Todd Diacon, Kent State’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, places the President’s Medal on Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy as Kent State President Beverly Warren watches.

Educator, pioneering scientist and visionary Owen Lovejoy receives the highest Kent State University honor.

University Commemorates May 4, 1970, Tragedy

Kent Campus

A student stands vigil on the spot where one of four students was shot on May 4, 1970.

College of Arts and Sciences Honors its Distinguished Student Leaders, Teachers and Advisors

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Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center Creates Science Stanzas, Participates in Inaugural March for Science

Kent Campus

David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, guides a poetry workshop. Hassler and other Wick Poetry Center staff will lead March for Science participants in a poetry-writing exercise.

At the inaugural March for Science, a global demonstration centered in Washington, D.C., a special edition of the Wick Poetry Center's Traveling Stanzas titled Science Stanzas will provide an opportunity for participants to discover the intersection of expressive writing and scientific inquiry.

Researcher Receives Five-Year Grant From the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health

Kent Campus

Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor in Kent State’s Department of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.

Kent State's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's.

Kent State University’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center Hosts 31st Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference

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Kent State's Ohio Employee Ownership Center Office is located in McGilvery Hall.

Kent State Prof Weighs in on Liberal Arts Degrees and a Future Career as CEO

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GoodCall talked with professors around the country about the use of liberal arts degrees and the skills that students use as a springboard to the next step in their education and career path.

Kent State Student Proves Height and Weight Do Not Determine Strength

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Kent State student Brooke Mullins stands in front of the Lordstown Fire Department – Station 36 in the Village of Lordstown, Ohio, where she serves as a volunteer firefighter.

Kent State Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

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Kent State Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

Kent State University researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

Kent State Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

Kent Campus

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017.

These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it.

An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by Kent State University researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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