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�������� Athletics is no stranger to a deep run in the NCAA Tournament.   The Kent State women’s basketball team recently won the Mid-American Conference Tournament championship for the first time since 2002. That same year, the men’s hoops team reached the Elite Eight in March Madness. According to a bracket by Inside Higher Ed, the student-athletes on the 2023-24 women’s team are championship caliber. The publication’s Academic Performance Tournament, which pits NCAA Tournament basketball teams against each other based on academic success, shows why Kent State is ...

Priyanka Kumari, Bijaya Basnet, Maxim Lavrentovich, and Oleg Lavrentovich have published an article in the journal Science on chiral ground states of ferroelectric liquid crystals.  An object is considered chiral if it can be distinguished from its mirror image. Chirality is a characteristic of living organisms and is usually caused by chiral chemical structure of constituent molecules. The work by Priyanka Kumari, Bijaya Basnet and others, published in Science on March 22, describes structural chirality in a recently discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal formed by polar molecul...

What does it mean to be Jewish in the modern world? This is the philosophical question that Senior Lecturer Chaya Kessler, the esteemed retiring director of ��������’s Jewish Studies Program (JSP), has woven into almost all aspects of her work of fostering dialogue and understanding in an increasingly polarized world.On the evening of May 16, �������� will celebrate and honor the career of Kessler, with a special event held at the �������� Hotel and Convention Center. With a theme of “Getting to Now – Now More Than Ever,” friends, colleagues and community...

 The �������� College of Podiatric Medicine (KSUCPM) community is deeply saddened by the passing of its long celebrated and adored alumni, former faculty and hall of fame member, Allan M. Spencer, DPM. Born November 17th, 1930, Dr. Spencer passed away on Sunday, March 17, 2024 at the age of 93. After graduating valedictorian from the Ohio College of Chiropody’s class of 1958, Dr. Spencer began his teaching career at the College and Cleveland Foot Clinic from 1958-1997.  A much admired and respected professor and clinician who taught orthopedics, biome...

All eyes have been on Northeast Ohio the past several weeks as the �������� and the University of Akron’s men’s and women’s basketball teams battled it out for the MAC championship title.While the Golden Flashes women’s basketball team has moved on to the NCAA tournament, the men’s team’s journey is complete for this season. And now, it feels a bit like Sports Illustrated (SI) is rubbing salt in our wounds, as the national sports publication has named UA’s Zippy as the No. 1 mascot in the men’s NCAA tournament field. Really, SI? Both our men's and women's basketball team...