Over the last year, hundreds of children’s books were collected on the Kent State East Liverpool Campus that were intended to be handed out during the city’s annual holiday parade. When the parade was canceled this year because of the COVID pandemic, however, campus employees decided to find another way to distribute the books to local youngsters. Through a project known as Season’s Readings, Kent State East Liverpool recently donated nearly 1,500 new books combined to East Liverpool’s North Elementary School, Beaver Local elementary students and to the East Liverpool Head Start program.&...
The Royal Society of Chemistry has accepted a new publication worked on by an interdisciplinary team, including five members of the AMLCI ( Senay Ustunel, Marianne E. Prévôt, Grace A. R. Rohaley, Torsten Hegmann, and Elda Hegmann ). Abstract: Considering the range of properties that various materials offer for tissue engineering it has come clear that no one size fits all, as no one material can be fully effective for all types of cell and ensuing tissues. Scaffolds need to address the delicate balance between cell-scaffold interactions and the particular requirement...
BHRI Seminar Series - Linguistic Processing in Autism: Challenges in Studying a Neurodevelopmental Disorder
Linguistic Processing in Autism: Challenges in Studying a Neurodevelopmental Disorder
Diane Williams, PhD, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University
Jean Engohang-Ndong, Ph.D., associate professor of biology at Kent State University at Tuscarawas, has been closely following the development of vaccines for COVID-19. He credits advances in science for helping researchers to develop vaccines in a short period of time. “We can do things that we would not have been able to do 50 years ago,” Engohang-Ndong said in an interview with The Bargain Hunter. “Because of the technology we have today, you have companies that are specialized in reading the genetic sequence of the virus, which we didn’t have many decades ago. So scientifically, it’...
The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) awards The John Elliot Center for Architecture and Environmental Design the ‘Green Building Legacy Award’ as a part of the 2020 USGBC Ohio Leadership Awards. The Weiss Manfredi / Richard L. Bowen designed home for Kent State’s Architecture, Interior Design and Construction Management programs was LEED Platinum certified for Building Design and Construction in April 2018. From its geothermal and energy management systems to its daylighting strategy, green roof and gray water recycling, orientation, daylighting strategy and use of locally sourc...
Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences would like to congratulate three faculty members in the Department of Biological Sciences who recently co-authored a 384-page hardcover book, “Problem Plants of Ohio,” published by the Kent State University Press and available on Amazon.com. Adjunct Professor Megan E. Griffiths-Ward, Ph.D., collaborated on the book with (her husband) Professor David Ward, Ph.D. and Melissa A. Davis, a botany instructor and the horticulture facilities director at Kent State’s Herrick Conservatory and collections manager of the Tom S. and Miwako K. Cooperride...
Richard Feinberg, Anthropology, presented "Non-instrument Navigation and Inter-island Voyaging in the Pacific Islands" at Down by the Water: Global Conversations in Maritime Archaeology,” an online webinar sponsored by the University of Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland, on December 7, 2020. ...
NEOMED Anatomy and Neurobiology Seminar Series - Effective Strategies for Teaching During a Pandemic
Effective Strategies for Teaching During a Pandemic
Bridget Mulvey, PhD, Department of Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum Studies, Kent State University
The NEOMED Anatomy and Neurobiology Seminar Series generally meets on Thursdays at 4:00pm-5:00pm.
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