Research & Science

Being a college student is tough enough for most, but for those who are also parenting young children or caring for loved ones – in addition to other responsibilities like work, managing a household, and appointments – going to class and succeeding can seem like a daunting task.

In the latest edition of "What's the Big Idea?" Kent State President Todd Diacon visits the East Liverpool Campus to meet with Associate Professor of Sociology Lydia Rose, whose research focuses on improving community health and well-being through citizen science.

Five days after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, an important message was sent to the nation's Urban Leagues. 

Kent State researchers presented their findings in the RASP Spring Research and Innovation Forum. 

A fungus that spent a week inside a grow tent has taken over the MuseLab.

An innovative experiment creates building materials from fungus.

Last month’s “Brains on Tap” discussion on Parkinson’s disease is now available to listen to on Ideastream Public Media. 

Brains on Tap is a quarterly series of public discussions, held at a brewery or bar, on topics of research being conducted by members of Kent State University’s Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI) and other Northeast Ohio neuroscientists.

Since completion of her Ph.D. in 2016, Assistant Professor Melissa Edler and her colleagues have secured more than $2 million in research funding for examining aging and neurodegenerative diseases.

Three Kent State professors are developing a solution to a teacher training issue through the use of extended reality (XR) technology and 360 video.