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Students visiting Mummies of the World

An instructor from Kent State at Geauga gave her students a unqiue opportunity to study the anatomy of mummies.

Student researchers at work in a laboratory at Kent State University.

With more than six months at the helm of Kent State University’s research division, Vice President Douglas Delahanty, Ph.D., has been hard at work making sure the university is sharply focused on its collaborations with business and industry and maintaining its R1 research status. He recently sat down with Kent State Today to talk about his first year and changes in the division.

2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium

April 17-21 is National Undergraduate Research Week

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Kent State researchers presented their findings in the RASP Spring Research and Innovation Forum. 

Bradley Morris delivering his presentation at R&I Forum Spring 2023

Engaging young students in cooking activities can promote lifelong learning in science and math.

Image of young student thinking.

Building a "sense of belonging to math" in underrepresented students.

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Researcher using the virtual injection training prototype.

Researchers use mixed reality and haptic technologies to develop teaching tools.

Presenters at the February 2023 R & I Forum

Forum highlights on-campus research in new ways of teaching in nursing, math and STEM.

Study examines the relationship between hazing severity and group solidarity in an anonymous U.S. fraternity.

Kent State University’s newest anthropologist, Assistant Professor Aldo Cimino, Ph.D., has made it his life’s work to understand the causes and consequences of hazing, including the possible generation of solidarity. He and his co-author recently published an article on this question in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.