These days, consumers can buy the latest clothing trends quickly and inexpensively. Critics, however, maintain that this “fast fashion” can be detrimental to the environment. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 84 percent of unwanted clothes in the United States in 2012 went into either a landfill or an incinerator. The EPA also says the materials that the fast-fashion companies are noncompostable, cause the greenhouse gas methane and contribute to climate change. Kent State University junior fashion design and business student Madeline Mehler created her ne...
The Kent State University football team is in its 95th season of football. This new hype video debuted at the home opener at Dix Stadium on Sept. 9 when the Golden Flashes took on Howard University. ...
A group of researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University have published a breakthrough article on new properties of liquid crystals in the May 27 issue of Physical Review Letters. The article, which describes some recent surprising results involving nematic liquid crystals induced by a high magnetic field, is currently featured on the American Physical Society website as an “Editors’ Suggestion.” “This basic scientific discovery does not have immediate applications, but may eventually lead to advances in refrigeration efficiency and computer memory storage using l...
Dr. Asad Khan, CTO Kent Displays and an alumnus of the LCI, is awarded 2017 Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics from American Physical Society for novel contributions to the physics of bistable, reflective cholesteric liquid crystals, and the commercial applications of pressure-sensitive liquid crystal displays, including switchable windows, eWriters and numerous new products. It is our great pleasure and honor to have a recipient of this prestigious prize from our alumni. Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics is awarded every other year and Dr. Asad Khan ...