The way in which a parent responds to a child’s injury often impacts how upset the little one becomes. A panicked parent often means a crying, hysterical child. A calm kiss on the boo-boo and a quick return to regular business, though, and the child is likely to forget about the incident. This age-old bit of parenting wisdom is one component of a new study by a Kent State University researcher into predictors of long-term post-traumatic stress in children. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded a three-year, $460,000 grant to Dr. Douglas Delahanty, Professor of Psychologic...

The Kent State University at Salem campus hosted the first-ever STEM University, a free daylong event in September organized by the Columbiana County Educational Service Center for area students in pre-K through fifth grade. Several local businesses and organizations provided more than 30 different hands-on activities for kids to learn how STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects are used every day by firefighters, police, nurses, pilots, farmers, teachers, those who work with animals and many more. Representing Kent State Salem were faculty and students from the nu...

Another October, another Columbus Day. But if Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, why does the United States bear the name of Amerigo Vespucci, an explorer who did not come along until 1499? It has to do with a great public relations campaign on Vespucci’s part, and  stubbornness on Columbus’s part for refusing to admit that he had discovered new lands, not Asia, explains Matthrew Crawford, Ph.D., Kent State University associate professor of history, in an article in the online magazine Live Science. Dr. Crawford features prominently in an article by author Laura Geggel for Livesc...

When the topic is career choices for women in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math) the job of fashion designer may not immediately come to mind.  But it should, says Tameka Ellington Ph.D., Kent State University associate professor of fashion. From the geometry needed to design, measure and cut dress patterns to the math needed to crunch sales figures and retail data, Dr. Ellington recently explained to WKYC’s Betsy Kling how fashion is very much a STEM career. “The business of fashion has a lot to do with retail math,” Dr. Ellington said. “Also, when yo...

Yanhai Du, Ph.D, acquired the largest grant award in Kent State’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering (CAE) history when the U.S. Office of Naval Research invested in his “Laser-Sintering System for Research on Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Fuel Cells.” The $485,000 award came in the summer of 2017 for CAE’s associate professor, but only recently has his vision for the funding been put into motion. A new laboratory with safety elements to house a 3D metal printing machine is currently under construction. This equipment complements the college’s Stratasys Objet260 Connex3 3D polymer ...

This semester, Kent State University’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising, an Ohio Center of Excellence, added a new graduate-level educational experience to its highly nationally and internationally ranked offerings. The new program, a Master of Fashion Industry Studies (M.F.I.S.), is the first of its kind in the academic world.  While other graduate degrees can be applied to many specialties, the Master of Fashion Industry Studies is exclusively focused on the fashion industry. This two-year initial master’s-level degree is designed for the academic advancement of individuals...