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Demonstrations on our color vision, sweet receptors on your tongue and laboratory rats’ blood pressure are just a few tactics John Johnson, Ph.D., biology professor at Kent State University, uses in his classroom to keep his students engaged. And it works.
John Johnson, Department of Biological Sciences, Kent Campus is among the finalists for the distinguished teaching award. Ten faculty finalists were chosen from a group of more than 250 nominations for this year’s 47th Annual Kent State University Alumni Association…
BSCI Information Fair on Tuesday, October 21st, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center rooms 306A-C and 310.
Aggressive behavior in animals may result in posturing, teeth baring or challenges related to protecting territory, offspring or food. In humans, it can lead to violence and death, and the causes are not always readily apparent. But where does it originate?
The University Fellowship is awarded annually to advanced doctoral students to recognize excellent scholarship and research potential. University Fellowship recipients are able to commit their time to dissertation research or writing. Approximately 15 University…
DR. JULIO MORALES-MEDINA SELECTED TO ATTEND THE "EUROPEAN PAIN SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SIENA"
Dr. Julio Morales-Medina, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Heather Caldwell’s laboratory in the Biological Sciences Department, was selected to attend the "European Pain School at…
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Imagine two lab rats in their cages – one fat, one thin. The larger rat pads around slowly or rests on the floor of wood shavings. She expends as little effort as possible to reach her water spigot, maybe even lying on her back and gripping it with her little pink paws so that…
Kent State University undergraduate student Jean Wilson Mutambuze and Jean Engohang-Ndong, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological sciences at Kent State University at Tuscarawas, are conducting a research project that has found a promising new alternative to manage a…
The scientific review panel of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings has selected Jennifer Remus from Kent State University's Biological Sciences Department's graduate program to participate in the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, to be held from 29 June to 4…
A Kent State University neurobiologist is one of four researchers in the U.S. awarded grants by the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation for projects to improve cognition in individuals with Down syndrome.