Mary Ann Devine is a premier Kent State University professor of cultural foundations of education and disabilities studies. She is also an accessibility expert and one of only two U.S. evaluators on an elite UNESCO World Heritage Oversight sub-committee. Devine recently conducted a high-profile assessment of Mont-Saint-Michel in France to improve inclusion while strictly preserving its historic integrity. Serving her second four-year term on this global body, Devine regularly evaluates iconic world sites by analyzing their physical geography, ancient structures and multimedia materials to comp...

A Kent State University researcher has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for an inaugural Genesis Mission award to develop an artificial intelligence framework capable of locating critical minerals using 50 years of the nation’s water-quality records.David Costello, Ph.D., professor in Kent State’s Department of Biological Sciences, is the principal investigator on “AI-Driven Probabilistic Source Mapping for Critical Minerals at Continental Scale.” The project is one of 278 selected by the DOE to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery. More than 5,000 applications were sub...