College of Arts and Science

Quark-gluon plasma visualization

Kent State University Physics alumnas Dr. Dekrayat Almaalol receives 2024 Leona Woods Lectureship Award from Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Total eclipse with flares

Kent State University hosts the total eclipse events.

Planetarium projector

Kent State University Department of Physics hosts eclipse planetarium shows and more.

Dr. Lavrentovich, professor of Physics at Kent State University, and collaborators publish an article in Science.

Chiral ground states of ferroelectric liquid crystals

Dr. Lavrentovich, professor of Physics at Kent State University, and collaborators publish an article in Science.

Particle detector

The Kent State University Department of Physics is proud to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Zhangbu Xu.

Dr. Michael Strickland's group will participate in a new Topical Theory Collaboration funded by DOE’s Office of Nuclear Physics to explore the behavior of heavy flavor particles. The collaboration will receive $2.5 Million from the DOE Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, over five years. That funding will provide partial support for six graduate students and three postdoctoral fellows at 10 institutions, as well as a senior staff position at one of the national laboratories. It will also establish a bridge junior faculty position at Kent State University.

Neutron star merger (Simulated Image Courtesy NASA Goddard)

Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the universe, and as such, the conditions at the cores of these extreme objects are impossible to reproduce on Earth. However, we can use data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo gravitational wave detector to gain insights into the physics of neutron stars.