More than 40 students participated in this year's Student Showcase for Research, Scholarship, & Creativity. On April 15, students presented their faculty-mentored research projects, scholarly efforts, and creative works across many different disciplines. The top three students earned Kent State Trumbull scholarship awards. 1st Place & $1,000 scholarship award winner: Claudia Bennight for the presentation “Are pets our superheroes? Pets may help individuals adjust to traumatic events.” | Mentor: Dr. Tomich 2nd Place & $750 scholarship award winner: Emilie Fr...
Peter C. Kratcoski, Department of Sociology & Criminology, and Maxmilian Edelbacher presented “Experiential Education as Preparation for Employment in Criminal Justice” at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Baltimore, MD on March 29, 2019. The Research focuses on how of experiential education gained through internships, workshops, field trips, co-ops and others helps students in selecting their career occupations. In addition, agencies benefit by having an opportunity to screen potential employees. ...
The Kent State University Honors College held its thirty-third annual Senior Honors Luncheon on Saturday, April 6, 2019, honoring senior honors students who will graduate in the spring, summer, or fall of 2019. To begin the luncheon, Dr. Alison J. Smith, Dean of the Honors College, welcomed those in attendance, followed by remarks from Dr. Beverly Warren, President of Kent State University. President Warren said in her remarks that undergraduate students at Kent State University “are so fortunate to be exposed to some of the best faculty the country has to offer” and that...
Construction Management students from the College of Architecture and Environmental Design presented a project at the 2019 Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) Convention. Out of 50 nationally ranked schools that presented their project, the Kent State student team took 8th place. This year’s project was a renovation of Indiana University’s Memorial Football Stadium. The challenges of this project included an estimate of all HVAC and plumbing work, and design of the food service piping. The team had to create a mock company and include company history, past projects, finan...
Eleven students from the College of Architecture and Environmental Design attended the National Association of Homebuilders Competition (NAHB) in Las Vegas. Our team of students represented Kent State by placing 7th out of 37 nationally ranked schools. Students were given a parcel of land and asked to develop homes, a site plan, a market analysis and a financial analysis. The team of students included: Will Duncan (Construction Management student) Montrell Stevens (Construction Management student) Tony Guerriero (Construction Management student) Caleb ...
Freshman and sophomore construction management students attended the University of Cincinnati (UC) New Builders Competition and took 1st place for the second year in a row. The project for this year challenged students to create an all encompassing plan for the Mercy Health Hospital's Free Standing Emergency Department. Students were asked to create a project management plan, estimate, schedule, safety plan, logistics plan and quality control plan. After creating the proposal the team presented to Danis Construction at UC. We are proud to have a great team of young and future Construction...
Landscape Architecture at Kent State was celebrated at the Ohio Chapter ASLA (OCASLA) annual meeting on April 19 in Dublin, Ohio. Two faculty nominated graduate students presented to a jury made up of three ASLA professionals. Both students were recognized by the OCASLA for their work at the annual meeting awards ceremony. Anna Enderle was awarded the Ohio ASLA Student Merit Award for her capstone. The jury said Anna's work was, “...beyond interesting and shows a level of maturity and growth that are beyond her years.” Katherine Kelleher was awarded...
WHAT: The Kent State University community will gather April 23 to celebrate the construction launch of the Design Innovation Hub, a dynamic, new space designed to spark creativity and collaboration. The Design Innovation Hub is an open-access, collaborative, co-working, idea-generating and innovative environment connecting students, faculty and the community to a network of existing spaces, makerspaces and resource laboratories across the university. In addition, the building will include a large dining venue that will seat approximately 350 people and serve unique offerings. The con...
The Associate Degree in Nursing program at Kent State University at Ashtabula inducted its newest members into the Alpha Delta Nu Honor Society Tuesday, April 16, 2019. Second-year nursing students Emily Rose Hodun and Noel Armstrong represent the fifth class inducted on the Ashtabula Campus into the Gamma Sigma Chapter. The Alpha Delta Nu Honor Society was founded with the intention to promote scholarship and academic excellence in the nursing profession. Alpha Delta Nu encourages the pursuit of advanced degrees in nursing as well as continuing education as a life-lon...
Colloidal particles functionalized with DNA open new strategies for colloidal self-assembly. Particles can be coated with one or more DNA “sticky ends” that can be programmed to hybridize at different temperatures. Particles can be either uniformly coated with DNA or coated on well-defined patches with different "valence". Of these, valence 2, which form chains, and valence 4, which coordinate tetrahedrally, are particular interesting. In addition, we also make Janus particles with varying patch size. Using these different particles, we demonstrate how to make new crystal structures, including...