Dr. Joseph D. Ortiz, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Geology at Kent State University, was part of an international team of researchers that co-authored an article about a deadly tsunami that occurred about 1,000 years ago in Tanzania. The study suggests that the tsunami risk in East Africa could be higher than previously thought. Ortiz processed and interpreted the grain size data using a multivariate statistical analysis method, demonstrating the deposit was composed of sediment from both terrestrial and marine origin, which supports the tsunami in...
Scientists report that nearly 14,600 years ago marine-based regions of the Eurasian Ice Sheet melted rapidly, contributing to a major sea-level rise. Does this rapid collapse of massive ice give us clues as to the vulnerability of Earth’s remaining ice sheets? Joseph D. Ortiz, Ph.D., professor and assistant chair in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Geology at Kent State University, recently authored a “News and Views” article in Nature Geoscience that discusses research carried out by another research team that reassessed the melt history and timing of the collapse of the Eur...
By Allie Vugrincic, Reporter Tribune Chronicle avugrincic@tribtoday.com Nonprofit Rock4Reason is thinking of local cancer patients during the pandemic and has decided to support them by donating 50 stress-relief bags to the Hope Center for Cancer Care. “People are already stressed out, and for those folks who are going through treatment, it is probably even more stressful for them,” Rock4Reason co-founder Frank Lindsay said. The Rock4Reason team delivered stress-relief bags with candles, tea, socks, stress balls and lotion, among other items, to the Hope Center in Howland. Half...
The Integrated Design Studio is a forum that synthesizes four years of architectural education into one project. The course tests the student’s ability to bring a variety of issues to bear; placing concepts, technical systems, material construction, and formal ambition into integrated relationships. Design work from the 2020 IDS class is exemplary of the richness possible when architecture is engaged across its broad disciplinary and cultural range. The high-quality design work from this year’s class is a testament to each student’s education and the fortitude of each group. They transformed c...
Kent State University has been recognized by the American Council on Education (ACE) for the university’s creation of a “one-stop shop” COVID-19 website, call line and email address, including its telemedicine and telehealth information for students. In the recently released report, Mental Health, Higher Education and COVID-19, Strategies for Leaders to Support Campus Well-Being, ACE also lauded the accessibility of Kent State’s resources for students living alone or in adverse situations. The report illustrates a picture of Kent State’s Merrill Hall in the introduction. "More institu...
We would like to congratulate former CPIP student Greta Babkhanova, Director of AMLCI and CPIP Professor Torsten Hegmann, and CPIP Professor Oleg Lavrentovich for being the recipients of the ILCS Honors and Awards 2020. Former student Greta Babakhanova recieved the Glenn H. Brown prize for her outstanding work on nematic elastomer coatings demonstrating the ability to program different surface profiles to the elastomer coating via its nematic director. It highlights general principles underlying this design mechanism by directly relating surface topography to the bend and sp...
The stay-at-home order for Ohio left a lot of parents struggling with how to supplement their children’s schooling and free time with fun, but educational activities. Adjunct Professor at Kent State University Geauga in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design Judson Kline recently went above and beyond when he created the Virtual Kids’ Home Architecture Camp. Kline currently serves on two committees of the American Institute of Architects: the Center for Leadership and the Inspire Architecture Group. During both committee’s conference call meetings in early March, Kline ha...
CAED and Honors College Alumnus Dr. Michael Abrahamson (B. ARCH 2007, General Honors) won the Society of Architectural Historians 2020 Founder’s Award for his article “’Actual Center of Detroit’: Method, Management, and Decentralization in Albert Kahn's General Motors Building”, published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians in 2018. The SAH Publication Awards honor excellence in architectural history, urban history, landscape history and historic preservation scholarship as well as architectural exhibition catalogues. Established in 1970, the...
Social media assistant Olivia here! Whether it’s creating a simple graphic for yourself or making a logo for a new company, I’m here to help give you a few tips and tricks to get you started! From simple apps to general rules of design, I will be covering all of the basics. Here are the five general rules to help you create a strong design. 1) Keep it Simple When creating graphics, I believe it’s important to recognize that less is more. Overwhelming your audience can quickly push them away from enjoying and engaging with your content. Your graphics should highlight your message witho...
Students graduating this spring from the Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) program at Kent State East Liverpool did not have the traditional pinning ceremony and end-of-year celebrations, but the faculty found a way to recognize them in a COVID-kind-of-way, nonetheless. Gathered in a campus parking lot, faculty members lined up their personal vehicles and offered graduates a drive-through send-off, maintaining social distancing standards. The students entered the lot and were directed to follow a path that allowed them to turn in badges and receive their nursing pins, honor cords, certifi...