Expanding University Initiatives
![Torsten Hegmann, director of Kent State's Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, shows the area in the basement of the Integrated Sciences Building where a new X-ray scattering machine will be installed in 2021.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/200827_ISB-Torsten_RD_00723%20%281%29.jpg?VersionId=sqtva2LKl0pyvvDByWc_acEJjHWbtqsS&h=5ded6b27&itok=4iRGp7sU)
Kent State University’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute soon will be home to a new X-ray scattering instrument capable of examining materials in scales from as small as a fraction of a nanometer to as large as several micrometers.
![Torsten Hegmann, director of Kent State's Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, shows the area in the basement of the Integrated Sciences Building where a new X-ray scattering machine will be installed in 2021.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/200827_ISB-Torsten_RD_00723%20%281%29.jpg?VersionId=sqtva2LKl0pyvvDByWc_acEJjHWbtqsS&h=5ded6b27&itok=4iRGp7sU)
Kent State University’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute soon will be home to a new X-ray scattering instrument capable of examining materials in scales from as small as a fraction of a nanometer to as large as several micrometers.
![Kent State professor John Gunstad and his research assistants Hanna Schmetzer and Victoria Sanborn demonstrate using the voice pattern technology that is part of his Alzheimer's disease research.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/KSU-2020-RD-200214-00002_0.jpg?VersionId=25eDi3cSB3hLAj8_QDc8N8XZhw_xsxiq&h=252f27fa&itok=KIo5Kd50)
Kent State University psychology professor John Gunstad, Ph.D., has received at grant of nearly $2.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand his Alzheimer’s disease research into a national study.