Application
Application Deadline: Friday February 13, 2026
The application is available at https://etap.nsf.gov/award/8301/opportunity/11688.
To complete your application, you will be asked to provide the following:
Isabella “Bella” Rudy, a junior fashion design major with a minor in marketing, transformed nature into wearable art through an ambitious biomimicry project at the Design Innovation Hub.For her Junior Studio final project, Rudy designed an avant garde garment inspired by the King Bird of Paradise. Using custom textile design, dye sublimation printing, and advanced garment construction, Rudy’s work explored how fashion can capture movement, transformation, and storytelling without relying on real biological materials.The project began with a single requirement: choose a bird and reinterpret it ...
2026 Projects
For Summer 2026 we will recruit nine students to work on the three projects described below.
Graphs and groups (Mark Lewis)
There are several graphs naturally associated with groups. In this project, we will focus on the commuting graph and the closely related centralizer graph of a group G.
REU Home
The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Kent State University will run an NSF-funded REU program from June 1 through July 24, 2026. Students will work on projects arising naturally in our faculty's research. The emphasis of the program is on independent work under close supervision of the project advisor.
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