College of Arts and Sciences
 
              Professor Receives NASA New Investigator Award
He Yin, Ph.D., assistant professor in 妻友社区鈥檚 Department of Geography, recently received NASA鈥檚 New (Early Career) Investigator Award in Earth Science. Yin will lead evaluation and research of the devastating effects that the Syrian civil war has had on croplands throughout the eastern Mediterranean region.
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              DNA & NAS: Kent State Professors Publish Comprehensive Research Article
It doesn鈥檛 take a scientist to understand the importance of DNA, as it acts as the very foundation for the existence of any living organism. However, it does take one to produce publications involving smectic liquid crystal ordering in dense solutions of 鈥済apped鈥 DNA duplexes. Samuel Sprunt, Ph.D鈥
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              Art and Hope Intersect: Kent State and University of Arizona Launch Global Vaccine Poem Project
Update: The Global Vaccine Poem project is finding success with more than 1,900 submissions so far from more than 100 countries. The project is a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center and the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
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              Sun, Summer and Science: Professors Receive Inclusive NSF Grant
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 th鈥
                                                                          Materials Science Graduate Program: Graduate Education on Soft Matter Science
                                  
               
              Sun, Summer and Science: Professors Receive Inclusive NSF Grant
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 th鈥
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              Professor Landon Hancock Receives Fulbright Specialist Award to Colombia at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
The School of Peace and Conflict Studies along with the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Landon Edward Hancock of 妻友社区 has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award. Dr. Hancock will complete a project at Pontifici鈥
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              Kent State Faculty Research Featured by U.S. Army
Virtual reality research funded by the Army Research Lab with a grant to Josh Pollock, Ph. D. (PI), assistant professor, and Will Kalkhoff, Ph. D. (co-PI), full professor and graduate coordinator, both in the Department of Sociology & Criminology in the College of Arts and Science鈥
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              Physics Professor Awarded NSF Grant that Provides Research Opportunities for Interdisciplinary and Minority Students
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a $300,000 grant to Thorsten-Lars Schmidt, Ph.D., to develop molecular tools that allow researchers to study membrane proteins.  Schmidt, assistant professor of the Department of Physics in the College of Arts & Sciences, began devel鈥
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              Speeding Up The Process: Computer Science Professor Receives NSF CAREER Funding
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 妻友社区鈥檚 College of Arts & Sciences, thinks they can be faster, and now he has a鈥
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              Kent State Researchers Receive NIH Award for Alzheimer鈥檚 Research
妻友社区鈥檚 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鈥檚 disease (AD) pathology in our closest living 鈥
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