Biology
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Kent State student Elizabeth Marhefka recognized as ARI-AHEC’s 2024 Scholar of the Year. The senior biology and premed student was honored for her passion for medicine and commitment to community engagement.
Each spring, students in Kent State's Child Development Center look forward to "Bioblitz." It's a day spent in the woods near their center with exploration, discovery and hands-on learning about nature.
![Spring Plant Sale Spring Plant Sale](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/Screenshot%202024-04-26%20at%2010.55.29%E2%80%AFAM.png?VersionId=NMVf.LEdIjzDXGWoPpKgTAiHsr8hCxDs&itok=1vIXMCzO)
The annual Spring Plant Sale at the Herrick Conservatory offers a chance for Flashes to add more green into their gardens and homes. Students help grow the plants and paint rain barrels. The event helps raise funds for several biology-focused student organizations.
![Honors College student Richie Dell poses in his baseball uniform holding a baseball.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/Richie%20Dell%20headshot%203_3.jpg?VersionId=S_kPJ7FsZqqys5wcA1zts.7nmiukVkG.&h=ec93fc4b&itok=6G_oqr4b)
Kyndall Gilbert is a junior Honors College student studying biology and pre-medicine at Kent State.
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Jean Engohang-Ndong, Ph.D., associate professor of biology at Kent State University at Tuscarawas, credits technology with speeding up vaccine breakthroughs.
![Neurons Neurons](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/page/neuron12.jpg?VersionId=hg6X5bKF46GIniJ_N4PdRoHmeYAa.oxv&h=5d1d91c8&itok=tH-qTREC)