Bob Rader’s path to becoming a Golden Flash was anything but traditional. In 2018, the retired chemical engineer needed prostate cancer surgery. He had been treated with radiation for the cancer before, but newly elevated PSA levels signaled that it was time for surgery to stem the cancer’s recurrence. The surgery, at Cleveland Clinic Akron General, went well. Yet something was wrong. “I wasn’t coming out of the anesthesia well,” he recalled. Rader was disoriented and could not answer simple questions or recognize people he knew. He had trouble fee...
The average person spends about three hours on their smartphone a day. In that time spent scrolling, do you ever stop to wonder what materials your phone screen is made of or why it works? These screens are made from nematic liquid crystals, the most common form of the fourth state of matter that exists between liquid and solid. Four Kent State University professors, Antal Jakli, Ph.D., professor of materials science; Robert Tweig, Ph.D., professor of chemistry; and Samuel Sprunt, Ph.D., and James Gleeson, Ph.D., both professors of physics, are among the first to investigate how ferroele...
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Kent State (28-6) will play Indiana on Friday, March 17, in the first round of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament in Albany, New York. Tickets will be available here starting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. Tipoff will be at 9:55 p.m. on Friday and will be aired on TBS and on the Kent State Radio Network. ...
Kent State will travel to Syracuse for a 2023 Postseason WNIT first round contest on Wednesday, March 15. Tip inside the JMA Wireless Dome is scheduled for 7 p.m. ...