Through multiple organizations and collaborations on and off campus, Kent State University ended 2019 as a more sustainable campus. Those who contributed to sustainable efforts worked hard to reduce the university’s carbon footprint leading to the university being honored as a finalist for the 2020 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Campus Sustainability Achievement Award along with the 2019 Keep Ohio Beautiful award for Colleges and Universities. Kent State was chosen as a finalist out of about 400 submissions toAASHE. The AASHE Sustainabili...
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, MMPI, is a standardized psychometric test that was first published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1943 and quickly became the gold standard for assessing psychopathology. Kent State University has played a key role throughout the history of this test and a Kent State faculty member led the revision for the recently published and updated 2020 MMPI-3. Yossef Ben-Porath, Ph.D., continues Kent State’s legacy as a major contributor of research for the MMPI. A professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Ar...
Through November 20, Kent State University will be collecting clean, gently used or new clothing for all ages, including coats, hats, gloves, scarves and sweaters. Look for large boxes with Winter Coat and Clothing Drive signs at the buildings listed below. Winter coat and clothing donations will go to the Winter Warm Up Stations at the Williamson House, the Schwartz Center; and the Phyllis Zumkehr Portage County Clothing Center, which provides free clothing to families, the homeless and elderly, and veterans in need. In 2019, 900 pounds of cl...
Over the past five years, the Women’s Center has honored over 50 students through this annual opportunity. The Sage Project is a way to recognize students who have overcome adversity to shape their lives and Kent State experiences. This initiative exists to highlight current students who have diverse experiences and backgrounds. We hope these stories will inspire a wide range of students, who will, in turn, realize they can create their own amazing stories. Eligibility Criteria: Those enrolled at Kent State University as a full-time student during the award period in the spring of ...
From brain to body and back: consequences of disrupted body clocks on health
Big data brain imaging, virtual reality, and neurofeedback for stroke rehabilitation research
Speaker: Sook-Lei Liew, PhD, University of Southern California
USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Health, USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Department of Neurology and USC Viterbi School’s Department of Biomedical Engineering
Translational Neuroelectronics
Dion Khodagholy, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Defects in myelination are a common pathophysiology in autism spectrum disorder
Brady Maher, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
The mission of the Brain Health Research Institute is to foster and support collaborative research leading to innovative discoveries about the brain that ultimately improve the health of our communities and beyond.