Each summer students travel to The Black Hills of South Dakota for an unrivaled opportunity for geologic studies. Students examine a wide variety of rocks, geologic structures, geomorphic features, and mineral deposits. Geologic mapping and interpretation is strongly emphasized and the instruction includes field and surveying techniques, and mapping on aerial photographs and topographic base maps. Some field exercises take place in the Powder River Basin and Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming, and Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
Join us in congratulating graduate students Andy Martinex, Michelle Bebber, Andrew Kramer, and Andrew Skrinyer on receiving awards for their presentations at the 2016 Graduate Student Research Symposium! Great job!! (Grad students Martinez, Bebber, and Kramer) ...
Dr. Raghanti and Dr. Meindl visited the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University. Read about it here! ...
Drs. Raghanti and Meindl recently visited Japan to establish a joint collaboration between Kent State University and Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute and to build a foundation for training the next generation of researchers in the field of biological anthropology.
From Drs. Raghanti and Meindl:
Ph.D. candidate Aidan Ruth's research on the position of the foramen magnum was featured in Inside Science- read the full story here!! ...
Please join us in congratulating Angelia Werner on her award! The Graduate Student Senate (GSS) research grant will fund Angelia's thesis project that will examine North America's first invention, the Clovis point. Angelia will employ experimental archaeology to understand the function of these unique tools. ...
Deepraj Mukherjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of economics at Kent State University at Stark, was recently awarded a grant in support of his research, titled “Location Strategies of Emerging Country Multinationals: Evidence from Indian Firms.” The global companies from the emerging economies, especially the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) economies, are known as the emerging country multinationals. The rise of information technology companies, like Wipro, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services from India, Embraer from Brazil and Huawei from China, has caused considerable competition f...
Join us in congratulating Cody on this major accomplishment! Learn about Cody's project here! To learn more about the NSF EAPSI program, click here. ...
Konnichi wa from Kent State!
PhD Candidate Aidan Ruth's research was featured in MuseLab's Beauty of Data Exhibit. Read the full story here! See the full exhibit at the MuseLab wall gallery, Kent State University School of Library and Information Science, 3rd floor of the University Library, through fall semester 2016. ...