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Kent State Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

Kent State Geographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

Kent State University researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

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Kent State professor explains how good cells can turn bad.

Kent State Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

A Kent State professor, his graduate students and researchers from Kyoto University help offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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Kent State Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017.

These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it.

An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by Kent State University researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

Tags: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , College of Arts and Sciences , Research & Science

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Cancer Survivors and Depression: Kent State Professor Studies Link

A new study by a Kent State researcher finds that depression in some cancer survivors is linked to both care and financial concerns.

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Kent State geology professor is concerned about losing valuable government databases

Kent State Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data

Kent State Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.

Tags: Research & Science , Department of Earth Sciences , College of Arts and Sciences

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Kent State Students to Collaborate With Kyoto University Researchers

Kent State University students will travel to Japan for collaborative research with the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, studying evolutionary genetic analysis, Alzheimer’s disease and aggressive behavior.      

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Melissa Zullo (left), associate professor of epidemiology in Kent State’s College of Public Health, works with a Ph.D. student.

Kent State Epidemiologist Studies Best Practices for Helping Cardiac and Respiratory Patients Heal

Kent State University scholar Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., is all heart, an academic who lives and breathes research, almost literally. Zullo, an associate professor of epidemiology in Kent State’s College of Public Health, has spent a significant portion of her professional and academic career studying th…

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Jacob Barkley (left), associate professor of exercise science in Kent State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services, oversees research activities with several students in a classroom in the MAC Center Annex.

Scholar Gets Students, Kent State on the Move

Kent State University’s Scholar of the Month for December would prefer that you read this standing up, or even doing some calisthenics. Go on, get moving. Jacob Barkley, Ph.D., is an associate professor of exercise science in Kent State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services. During hi…

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Jessica Barness (right), assistant professor of visual communication design at Kent State, reviews a student’s work in the Art Building.

November Scholar Puts Communication on Display

Scholar of the Month
Jessica Barness
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design
College of Communication and Information
2012-present

The word “communication” likely makes you think of language, but November’s Scholar of the Month has spent her entire career researching design as a language of its own.

Across various media, Jessica Barness, an assistant professor in Kent State University’s School of Visual Communication Design, creates her own design-based research model that merges the making of artifacts with critical inquiry.

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Tags: School of Visual Communication Design , College of Communication and Information , Success Story , Research & Science

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Kent State’s Torsten Hegmann Named Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry

One of the top publishing societies in the world names a Kent State professor a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Tags: Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program , Awards and Honors , Research & Science , Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

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