Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, received a fellowship (about $2,000) from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST), to attend the Summer Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems, June 27–July 1, 2016, in Stevenson, Washington.
Lala Hajibayova, School of Library and Information Science
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Mark L. Lewis
Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Kent Campus
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When someone suffers a stroke, traumatic brain injury or brain tumor, one of the common symptoms is aphasia, a disorder that arises from damage to portions of the brain, usually the left side, that are responsible for language. It impairs the expression and understanding of language, as well as reading and writing.
Researchers in Professor Philip Bos’ laboratory at Kent State University's Liquid Crystal Institute® and the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently published the results of their collaborative development of advanced liquid crystal devices that can steer a beam of laser light without physical motion.
Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., associate professor in Kent State University’s School of Information (iSchool), has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach at the University of Zadar in Croatia for the Fall 2017 Semester. She will teach a course she created, Current Issues in Document/ation Studies, guest lecture in other courses, participate in several conferences and advise students.
Did you know the Campus Kitchen at Kent State prepares an average of 350 meals each week for individuals facing food insecurity in our local community? In the past year, more than 3,000 individuals assisted with meal prep and food delivery programs at the Campus Kitchen at Kent State.
On July 1, the Kent State University School of Digital Sciences became the fifth school in the College of Communication and Information, making it the only college in the nation to combine a mix of digital sciences, visual communication design, journalism and mass communication, information sciences and communication studies in its curriculum.
Online final grading for summer 2017 First 7 Weeks (W1) began Thursday, June 29, via FlashFAST. Grading also is now available for any summer 2017 course section that was flexibly scheduled. The deadline for grading submission is midnight on Wednesday, July 5. Any final grades for summer 2017 courses not reported in FlashFAST by the grades processing deadline will have to be submitted using the Grade Change Workflow. These summer 2017 courses will be available in the Workflow on Friday, July 7.
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Fourteen Kent State University students participated in an eight-day, education-abroad trip to Greece sponsored by the university’s School of Theatre and Dance.
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Kent State's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative has received the 2017 Great Places Award in the Place Planning category from the Environmental Design Research Association.
POSTED: Thursday, November 10, 2016 02:45 PM
The Kent State University Board of Trustees today established a comprehensive, national search to recruit and select the university’s 13th president.
The events of May 4, 1970, placed Kent State University in an international spotlight after a student protest against the Vietnam War and the presence of the Ohio National Guard ended in tragedy with four students losing their lives and nine others being wounded. From a perspective of nearly 50 years, Kent State remembers the tragedy and leads a contemporary discussion and understanding of how the community, nation and world can benefit from understanding the profound impact of the event.
