Due to Flint, Michigan’s population decrease, loss of tax revenue, and increased demands of city services the city was taken over by the state in 2011, which led to the now infamous water crisis. A policy of municipal takeover was implemented to help relieve Flint of financial and political hardships. Ashley Nickels, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, extensively researched Flint’s municipal takeover for seven years, earning her three awards for her work. After years...
Article link WKBN First News 27 by: Nadine Grimley, November 13, 2020 CHAMPION, Ohio (WKBN) – Kent State University at Trumbull is installing solar panels in the ground along the Route 82 Bypass Champion exit. The panels should be finished by spring 2021. The solar field will produce 65% of the campus’s energy use. University officials say they’re trying to improve local air quality. They’ll also save money because of the project– about $1.3 million over the next 25 years. “There are some advantages, and I think a lot of these advantages, beyond saving money and...
AASHE article link Kent State is a 2020 AASHE Sustainability Award Finalist. "The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2020 AASHE Sustainability Awards. The AASHE Sustainability Awards provide global recognition to the individuals and organizations leading the higher education sustainability movement. With the help of volunteer judges from the community, the awards program raises the visibility of high-impact sustainability projects, pioneering research, and student leadership, helping to dissemina...
The Kent State University Board of Trustees congratulated Kent State President Todd Diacon and university leaders on increased retention and graduation rates, as well as a strong Class of 2024, as official fall 2020 enrollment figures were shared at the Board’s regular quarterly meeting held Wednesday, Sept. 16. Kent State’s increase in the retention of returning students is thanks in part to the university’s award-winning student support services designed to help students every step of the way – from their first day on campus through graduation. The university’s retenti...
Youth Time: Life Has Much More to Offer Than Smartphones – Interview with Professor Andrew Lepp By Martina Advaney Nature, beauty, mentoring, how the young miss out on important aspects of life on account of increase in the use of smartphones, how smartphones are detrimental to academic performance and physical fitness, how personality traits and use of smartphones are related, how personality types and tourism are related. Read about this and more in this interview with Professor Andrew Lepp. ...
Black lives and Black cultures have been underrepresented and discriminated against for many years. "TEXTURES: The History and Art of Black Hair" is an exhibition coming to the Kent State University Museum with significant sponsorship from corporate and federal funding that focuses on celebrating and empowering these lives and cultures. The "TEXTURES" exhibition is a project dedicated to giving the Black community a voice. It is an interdisciplinary project that focuses on cultures from all over the world. Curators Tameka Ellington, Ph.D., an associate professor at the School of Fashio...
Climate change can now be measured on a global scale using multiple weather variables, according to new research from Kent State University. In 2018, Cameron C. Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Kent State, began researching how weather types have changed over a 40-year period. Lee’s published research “Trends and Variability in Airmass Frequencies: Indicators of a Changing Climate” can be found in the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate. Air masses, or multivariate weather situations like hot and humid, or cold and dry, take int...
Kent State University’s David Costello, Ph.D., is passionate about identifying what trace metals lie within Northeast Ohio’s streams and what the effects of these metals are on the surrounding environment. Costello, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, received a $718,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study these important trace metals. The grant is awarded as part of the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. The program supports early career development for researchers who have integrated education with t...
Join us in congratulating our cutting edge anthropologists, Drs. Metin Eren, Michelle Bebber, Mary Ann Raghanti and graduate students (past and present) Dusty Norris (’20), Alyssa Perrone (’20), Ashley Rutkoski (’19), and Mike Wilson! Their research, titled “Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work” (published in the Journal of Archaeological Science) was awarded a 2020 Ig Nobel Prize! The prize ceremony was webcast on the IgNobel website on September 17, 2020. Wonderfully, another of the 2020 Ig Nobel prize winners is Dr. Takeshi...
Join us in congratulating Danielle Jones, PhD candidate on becoming a Fellow with the Stem Advocacy Institute (SAi)! The SAi program provides mentorship and support to graduate student Fellows to increase public understanding and engagement with science. This is a 10-week program aimed at guiding Fellows as they develop their ideas. Danielle developed a project aimed at improving mental health and resiliency for high school students. Read more about the SAi here. ...