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  As seventh graders, 15 local students were directed to the Rising Scholars program (formerly known as the Rural Scholars program) because their teachers detected something special in each of them. Now, six years later, they are each ready to move onto the next phase of their lives: college, trade school, the workplace following completion of the Kent State Columbiana County Rising Scholars program. A graduation celebration was held on the Salem Campus to recognize members of the Rising Scholars program who are each graduating from their respective high schools this spring. Because o...

Computers are fast. They benefit humanity because of their ability to process data much faster than a human can. But Gokarna Sharma, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science in ��������’s College of Arts & Sciences, thinks they can be faster, and now he has additional funding to teach computers - and students - how to make that happen. Sharma recently received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research and technological advancement. This award is primarily given to early-career faculty within the first 6 years of their aca...

The Integrated Design Studio is a forum that synthesizes four years of architectural education into one project. The course tests the student’s ability to bring a variety of issues to bear; placing concepts, technical systems, material construction, and formal ambition into integrated relationships. Design work from the 2021 IDS class is exemplary of the richness possible when architecture is engaged across its broad disciplinary and cultural range. The high-quality design work from this year’s class is a testament to each student’s education and the fortitude of each group. They transfor...

��������’s Mary Ann Raghanti, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology, and Melissa Edler, Ph.D., are part of a team of researchers who received a five year National Institutes of Health (NIH) award to examine Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology in our closest living relative, the chimpanzee.  The team includes researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Dr. William Hopkins), The George Washington University (Dr. Chet Sherwood), Duke University (Dr. Elaine Guevara), and Emory University (Dr. Sanjeev Gumber). The total award is $3,77...

The Massillon Museum is currently showing a solo exhibition titled “Suspended Animations” featuring Rebecca Cross, M.F.A. ’07, on view through June 16. The exhibition, which is on view in the museum's Studio M gallery, includes a series of drawings on silk and a sculptural installation.  “My recent sculptural work, three iterations of the Biotracings series (2018–2020), is a collection of futuristic, natural history objects, or “exprints” of imagined, extinct plant species, which considers a plausible future, where what is familiar now exists only as skins and traci...

Michael Tubergen, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry and Torsten Hegmann, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry as well as the Materials Science Graduate Program and Director of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI), may be working in different fields of research, but they have been continuously collaborating with one another to achieve their like-minded goal: Help shape and prepare the next generation of researchers and scientists, regardless of what school they attend. Hegmann and Tubergen received a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant that sup...

Art history professor emerita Carol Salus was interviewed for a new ideastream documentary about artist Roy Lichtenstein and his wife, Isabel. Salus was a family friend of the Lichtensteins. The documentary centers around the couple's time living in Cleveland and Isabel's successful career as an interior decorator, by which she financially supported her family in the 1950s. "Roy Lichtenstein's impact on the art world is well documented, but the story of his pre-Pop days in Cleveland and the woman who supported him as he developed his signature style is largely unknown," stated a summary o...

Omid Tavakoli, M.F.A. '19 Print Media and Photography, was interviewed about his life and art for ideastream in April. The article “Equity in Art: Balancing Biracial Identity" centers around about his experience being a biracial artist. He also talks about his time studying at Kent State.  Read the interview now on ideastream's website. ...