College of Sciences and Humanities
Ģý Researchers Publish Breakthrough in Leading Scientific Journal
Senior Research Fellow Quan Li, Ph.D., and his research group at Ģý’s Liquid Crystal Institute®, in the College of Arts and Sciences, have published a research article in the March 17 issue of Nature that could lead to a variety of breakthrough device applications and other indust…
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Ģý's Wick Poetry Center to Expand Traveling Stanzas Project With $125,000 in New Funding From Knight Foundation
The Wick Poetry Center at Ģý will expand its successful Traveling Stanzas project with $125,000 in new funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. The Knight Arts Challenge funds ideas that engage and enrich Akro…
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Brain Waves of Tibetan Monks Could One Day Help Students in the West
Since the time of the early Buddhist kings, Tibetan monks have practiced analytic meditation - where they memorize a Buddhist text and then attempt to deepen their understanding of this material by joining in debate pits lead by a senior monk, known as the challenger. “The challenger is s…
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Ģý Board Votes to Establish Unified Student Government Across All Ģý Campuses
Ģý Board of Trustees approved establishing a unified student government across all campuses – Ashtabula, East Liverpool, Geauga, Kent, Salem, Stark, Trumbull and Tuscarawas – during its March 9, 2016, board meeting.Each campus’ Undergraduate Student Government is recognized as the…
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Ģý Student Liz Schmidt Writes Ģý Compassion to End Injustice, Takes Top Honors
When you first meet Liz Schmidt, an instant friendship emerges, filled with conversation illuminated with respect and kindness. Her friendly disposition and welcoming nature, coupled with her sense of adventure, reflects the social responsibility she lives by: “foster relationships and value people …
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Ģý Student Liz Schmidt Writes Ģý Compassion to End Injustice, Takes Top Honors
When you first meet Liz Schmidt, an instant friendship emerges, filled with conversation illuminated with respect and kindness. Her friendly disposition and welcoming nature, coupled with her sense of adventure, reflects the social responsibility she lives by: “foster relationships and value people …
Kent Campus
Ģý Professor, Wick Poetry Center Earn University’s Diversity Awards
Molly Merryman, Ģý associate professor of sociology and founding director of the Ģý Women’s Center, has been awarded the university’s 2016 Diversity Trailblazer Award. The annual Diversity Trailblazer Award recognizes diversity pioneers associated with Ģý who have …
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Newly Developed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Material Could Enable Advanced Sensors, Ģý Researchers Say
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), essentially rubbers with liquid crystal properties, can do a number of fascinating things, especially in the fields of optics, photonics, telecommunications and medicine. They can curl up, bend, twist, wrinkle and stretch when exposed to light, heat, gases and other…
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Bioretention Cells Reduce Total Runoff by 40 Percent in Study
Ģý and Cleveland Metroparks partnered on study of two Parma neighborhoods near West Creek Reservation Rain barrels, rain gardens, and bioretention cells are increasingly used as green infrastructure to capture and slow storm water runoff before it gets to nearby urban waterways, …
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Ģý Researchers Receive National Science Foundation Grant to Discover Why Some Messages Go Viral
We have all seen them explode on social media. They are the posts that feature the outlandish, the cute and the funny messages that go viral. But how does one message catch on and others do not? It is a question that Ģý researchers in the College of A…
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