Kent State University enrolls citizens from both Ukraine and Russia. In addition, staff and professors from both nations are employed on our campuses. In the spirit of our commitment to global education and understanding, and consistent with our university’s core values, we encourage everyone to treat all members of our community with kindness and respect during this moment of world tension and strife. We recognize that these times may cause significant stress and diminished mental well-being for members of our Kent State community. Those who are struggling, please know that you are not alo...

Black to the Future! “Earth, environmental, and ocean sciences are of the many scientific fields that lack a diverse representation. Given the lack of diversity in these fields, it is imperative that we make a conscious effort to include everyone in tackling the necessary issues in these fields such as anthropogenic global warming or environmental degradation. Often, underrepresented groups are most effected by climatic, geological, and environmental issues.” - Jeremy Williams, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Geology Dr. Williams is deeply passionate about teaching and exposing stu...

  Abstract : Unlike Lego bricks that perfectly assemble next to one another, in many molecular assemblies, and in particular in many liquid crystals, some misfit is almost always present. The constituents of such structures must distort in order to fit next to one another resulting in geometrically frustrated structures that possess no stress-free rest state. The elastic behavior of such structures is thus best described through intrinsic geometric quantities describing the possibly mutually contradicting local geometric tendencies. In this talk, I will discuss the notion of comp...