WHAT: Kent State University President Beverly J. Warren will introduce the inaugural director of the university’s Brain Health Research Institute on Monday, Feb. 25. The new director will discuss our plans for widespread collaboration within the Northeast Ohio health community for brain health research. The event will take place in the lobby of the Integrated Sciences Building, located at 1175 Lefton Esplanade on the Kent Campus. The program begins at 10 a.m. The new director and President Warren will be available for media questions at the conclusion of the event at approximately 10:30...
Kent State University’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is presenting the inaugural issue of a new peer-reviewed, academic online journal called Trends in Diversity. Trends in Diversity is an open-access, online journal that provides a platform for intellectual dialogue and exploration of emerging and transformative issues of equity, inclusiveness and diversity in higher education. Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Alfreda Brown, Ed.D., envisions the journal as a voice to what is taking place in higher education toward hist...
The Kent State Robotics Club visited Kent Roosevelt High School today to assemble a LED edge-lit acrylic sign. The sign was laser-etched with the Kent State Robotics logo and the base was 3-D printed by the CAE team in order to make the battery-operated display with engineering students. This activity taught high school students about 3D design and programming. While this was the first time CAE students worked with the High School on a formal engineering project, the team plans to make the interaction a regular occurrence. ...
Many people travel for relaxation, some travel for work, but Erica Dovin traveled to help give the gift of hearing to impaired children. Ms. Dovin, a sophomore speech pathology and audiology major, received a rare opportunity to travel to Honduras to provide much needed assistance while gaining valuable experience at the same time. Ms. Dovin was one of 10 Delta Zeta sorority members from across the country who received the opportunity to travel to Honduras as part of the Starkey Hearing Foundation’s Heart for Hearing contest. Heart for Hearing is the sorority’s national philanthropic progra...
Fashion design student Symone Baskerville has worked hard to bring her dream of a high-end fabrics store to downtown Kent. Now, that dream has become a reality with the opening of Kent Fabrics. When Ms. Baskerville came from Chicago to Kent State to study fashion design, she realized that living so far from home was not nearly as difficult a transition as living in an area with limited choices of fabrics available for to her to use for her class projects. In Chicago, Ms. Baskerville had easy access to high-end fabrics and quality materials from a variety of sources. Ms. Baskerville di...
The national juried art exhibition, Focus: Fiber 2019 is heading to the Kent State University Museum next month, marking the first new exhibit for the Museum in 2019. Opening March 1, this biennial exhibit features contemporary fiber art from 35 artists belonging to the Textile Art Alliance (TAA) of the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). The artists provided 45 works of contemporary fiber art, including weaving, sculpture, felting, tapestry, embroidery and quilts. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Textile Art Alliance of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Renow...
The Performing Arts Center continues its tradition of connecting local students with internationally recognized artists when piano man Jason Farnham visits the area February 25 – 27. Jason will visit five area elementary schools over the course of three days in addition to performing an evening concert at the Performing Arts Center on Tuesday evening. “It’s magical when we get to see the reactions from students when professional musicians visit their school,” explained David Mitchell, general manager of the Performing Arts Center. “Our goal is to get to every school in the county,...
As technology’s role in education becomes more significant – with most colleges and universities having an interactive website for their institution, many students opting to take online courses, and grades and assignments being shared, submitted, and viewed online – the need for digital accessibility is constantly growing. With the importance of accessibility in mind, Kent State’s Systems Development and Innovation (SDI) team has been working to make FlashLine, KSUMobile, and other university technologies as user-friendly as possible. How FlashLine and KSUMobile have become more accessib...
Lipid materials having nanostructures that deviate from the conventional flat bilayer arrangement such as hexagonally packed lipid tubes and bicontinuous cubic phases are ubiquitous in nature. Their role remains elusive but over the years several pathologies and organelle functions have been coupled to lipid membrane structural complexity. In this talk we will discuss lipid membrane polymorphism and how it can be exploited to generate a new class of materials for the delivery of cargo to cells. We combine a number of techniques including X-ray scattering, cryo-EM, and cell culture to demonstra...
Lipid materials having nanostructures that deviate from the conventional flat bilayer arrangement such as hexagonally packed lipid tubes and bicontinuous cubic phases are ubiquitous in nature. Their role remains elusive but over the years several pathologies and organelle functions have been coupled to lipid membrane structural complexity. In this talk we will discuss lipid membrane polymorphism and how it can be exploited to generate a new class of materials for the delivery of cargo to cells. We combine a number of techniques including X-ray scattering, cryo-EM, and cell culture to demonstra...