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Wick Poetry Center Welcomes Two-time U.S. Poet Laureate
April 3, 2014
Celebrate National Poetry Month at Kent State University with the third annual U.S. Poet Laureate Reading featuring two-time U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser on April 10.
Read More »The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Construction of the Virginia Kendall Reserve, 1933-1939
April 1, 2014
edited by Kenneth J. Bindas Professor and Chair, Department of History, Kent State University Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Happy Days Lodge, 500 W. Streetsboro Road Peninsula, Ohio 44264 Lecture by Kenneth J. Bindas begins at 7:00 p.m. Book Signing and Dessert…
Read More »New Book Traces Local History of the New Deal’s Civilian Conservation Corps
March 31, 2014
Public lecture by historian Kenneth Bindas on April 8 at Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Read More »"Cancer is Nuts" Kent State Relay for Life, Sat April 5, 2014
March 29, 2014
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Read More »Department of Pan-African Studies to Hold Africa and the Global Atlantic World Conference
March 24, 2014
Kent State University’s Department of Pan-African Studies will host the Africa and the Global Atlantic World Conference on April 10 and 11 at Ritchie Hall on the Kent Campus. This second biannual conference is themed “Revisiting Black History, Identities, Sexualities and…
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In an Age of Obesity, Why Do Some Remain Thin?
March 24, 2014
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…
Read More »Kent State Student and Professor Find Effective Alternatives to Current Antibiotic Therapy of Skin Infection
March 17, 2014
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…
Read More »Kent State Holds Symposium on “The Neuroscience of Obesity”
March 13, 2014
Researchers will present findings on the prevention and treatment of obesity and the brain’s role in food intake and physical activity Kent State University’s second annual neuroscience symposium will cover the latest research findings on “The Neuroscience of Obesity” on April…
Read More »Kent State Researchers Map How Place and Space Shape Urban Crime
March 10, 2014
Researchers at Kent State University will investigate urban neighborhood crime hotspots in Northeast Ohio over the next two-and-a-half years, funded by a $474,000 Department of Justice grant.
Read More »BSCI Graduate Student selected to participate in the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
March 9, 2014
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…
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