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Turning Dogs into Therapists, Kent State Leads the Pack

The Dogs on Campus Pet Therapy Program® at Kent State University serves as a model to bring certified therapy dogs to stressed out college students.

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Kent State's Rick Ferdig, Ph.D., served as lead investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to develop a new learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes.

ParkApps: Using Technology to Learn About a National Park

Educators, scientists, and technologists from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Kent State University and Cleveland Metroparks have partnered to develop a new learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes. 

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The Glove That Speaks Sign Language

 This might look like an ordinary glove, but it is anything but ordinary. The glove talks. It is in the early stages of helping those who use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate with those who do not.

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Kent State Art Professor Embraces Alter Ego As "Mushroom Hunter"

When Don King, a part-time faculty member in Kent State's School of Art, goes into the woods for a walk, his eyes are trained to see much more than the average hiker.  "I was watching a TV show where a couple of chefs went out into the woods and brought back a huge basket of m…

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WKYC TV Gets a Bird’s-Eye View of Drone Technology at Kent State

What started as a hobby a decade ago has turned into a promising future for Kent State University senior Alex Flock. WKYC TV featured Flock for a story on the growing interest in drones and Kent State’s minor in unmanned aircraft systems. Along with Blake Stringer, Ph.D., assistant professor in Ken…

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Scholar Supplies Global Technology Knowledge to Students

Scholar of the Month Pratim Datta Associate Professor of Management and Information Systems and Director of the Ph.D. Program College of Business Administration 2007-present Pratim Datta is an associate professor in the Department of Management and Information Systems and director of the Ph.D…

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Kent State Blackstone LaunchPad Explores Wearable Technology Industry With First Ever Collegiate Fashion/Tech Hackathon

24-hour event open to all college students attending a U.S. university Product innovation around the growing wearable technology industry will be the focus of the Kent State University Blackstone LaunchPad’s second annual “Innov8athon” event running Jan. 31 through Feb. 1 at Kent State’s Rockwell H…

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Kent State Approves Work to Begin on New Building for the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology

Last September, the Kent State University Board of Trustees approved construction of new facility for the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology, as a prioritized project within the “Foundations of Excellence: Building the Future” initiative. Since that time the programmi…

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Kent State University at Ashtabula Students Earn Top Honors at Information Technology Conference

Kent State University at Ashtabula students who are members of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) won honors and awards at the association’s National Collegiate Conference that took place recently in St. Louis, Mo. Special awards also went to two Kent State faculty member…

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Kent State Tuscarawas Marks Tolloty Technology Incubator Groundbreaking

Kent State University at Tuscarawas and the Tuscarawas County Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) celebrated a milestone on June 4 with the groundbreaking ceremony for the Tolloty Technology Incubator, the gateway facility to the Tuscarawas Regional Technology Park on Tech Park Drive in New Phil…

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