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Jean Engohang-Ndong, Ph.D., associate professor of biology at �������� at Tuscarawas, has been closely following the development of vaccines for COVID-19. He credits advances in science for helping researchers to develop vaccines in a short period of time. “We can do things that we would not have been able to do 50 years ago,” Engohang-Ndong said in an interview with The Bargain Hunter. “Because of the technology we have today, you have companies that are specialized in reading the genetic sequence of the virus, which we didn’t have many decades ago. So scientifically, it’...

The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) awards The John Elliot Center for Architecture and Environmental Design the ‘Green Building Legacy Award’ as a part of the 2020 USGBC Ohio Leadership Awards. The Weiss Manfredi / Richard L. Bowen designed home for Kent State’s Architecture, Interior Design and Construction Management programs was LEED Platinum certified for Building Design and Construction in April 2018. From its geothermal and energy management systems to its daylighting strategy, green roof and gray water recycling, orientation, daylighting strategy and use of locally sourc...

��������’s College of Arts and Sciences would like to congratulate three faculty members in the Department of Biological Sciences who recently co-authored a 384-page hardcover book, “Problem Plants of Ohio,” published by the �������� Press and available on Amazon.com. Adjunct Professor Megan E. Griffiths-Ward, Ph.D., collaborated on the book with (her husband) Professor David Ward, Ph.D. and Melissa A. Davis, a botany instructor and the horticulture facilities director at Kent State’s Herrick Conservatory and collections manager of the Tom S. and Miwako K. Cooperride...

Richard Feinberg, Anthropology, presented "Non-instrument Navigation and Inter-island Voyaging in the Pacific Islands" at Down by the Water: Global Conversations in Maritime Archaeology,” an online webinar sponsored by the University of Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland, on December 7, 2020. ...

  Dr. Marc Hoffrichter, (left) president of the East Liverpool Fawcett Community Foundation, presented a check for $4,500 to Dr. David Dees, dean and chief administrative officer of the Kent State East Liverpool Campus, that is earmarked for scholarships to benefit students enrolled in the occupational therapy assistant program. The funds came from the estate of the late M. Patricia Burnett who created the endowed scholarship through the Fawcett Community Foundation. Kent State East Liverpool annually awards the M. Patricia Burnett Scholarship to a student from the occupational thera...