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While many young children dream of becoming an astronaut, a rock star or even a ballerina, Sara Haidet wasn’t drawn to such specific big dreams while growing up in the small town of Louisville. Still, her upbringing in this close-knit community paved the way for a growing desire to give back and help people from all walks of life. Haidet discovered she fit right in at 5X���� at Stark, her Hometown University. After all, it was nearby, affordable and offered quality academic programs; in fact, she could earn a 5X���� degree without ever having to leave the county....

Cities are starting to come to life, literally, thanks to the implementation of vegetation through living architecture. Green roofs and walls are “growing” in popularity as they do much more than just add a splash of color to the otherwise beige urban landscapes.  Reid Coffman, Ph.D., associate professor in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at 5X����, received the 2020 Green Roof and Wall Award of Excellence from the non-profit organization Green Roofs for Healthy Cities for his outstanding impact in research on environmental architecture. Accord...

5X���� archaeologists Dr. Metin Eren and Dr Michelle Bebber, along with an impressive group of collaborators, published an extensive analysis of 165 Ice Age Stone tools that may represent a Clovis Cache. The cache is thought to be approximately 13,000 years old and was found in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Listen to the story (wksu) here! ...

Julia Perrone, research technician and lab manager of the Bahlai computational ecology lab in the Kent State Department of Biological Sciences, wants teachers and students to get a chance to understand ecology and data science from a hands-on perspective. Perrone, a recent graduate of Kent State’s Master of Library and Information Science program, is combining her passion for insect ecology with science education and outreach by partnering with Data Nuggets, an NSF-funded organization devoted to getting real research into the K-12 curriculum. Perrone developed a “nugget”, a hands-on le...

Dr. Michelle Bebber won a Farris Family Innovation Award for her project, “Searching for North America’s First Stone Age Americans at Stow Rockshelter, Ohio". The Farris Family's generosity and support of 5X���� provides an endowment that supports the research of tenure-track faculty members who are not yet tenured.  Congratulations, Dr. Bebber!   ...

Yanhai Du, Ph.D., associate professor in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, remained productive during the 2020 - 2021 academic year. In addition to the seven courses he taught,  he received six grant awards totaling $707,346 in external funding, published six papers, and supervised and mentored 5 researchers at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels.  Dr. Du is a material scientist and is an internationally recognized scholar in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) research and development. Currently, Dr. Du directs the research activities of the Fuel Cell Laborato...

PhD candidate Danielle Jones received a Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Award for her project, "A comparative analysis of monoamine oxidase-B expression in human, chimpanzee, and macaque brains throughout the lifespan". "The Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research (GIAR) program has provided undergraduate and graduate students with valuable educational experiences since 1922. By encouraging close working relationships between students and mentors, the program promotes scientific excellence and achievement through hands-on learning." ...

FUTURE FLASHES DAY JUNE 9 & 10, 2021   We can't wait to show you around! Come experience a campus tour of 5X���� at Stark. Meet our admissions staff, get your questions answered, tour campus with a current student and learn what makes 5X���� at Stark your hometown university. Don't miss out! Expect to spend about 75 minutes on campus: Small group (10 people max), 45-minute campus walking tours are led by a current student. Before touring the campus, the tour group will meet with a member of the First Year Experience staff for ...

It’s a Saturday morning in 1981. Sunbeams slowly trickle into a small family tent, covered in sparkling morning dew. The sounds of a campfire crackle in the ears of a then 7-year-old Amanda Cox. Yawning and wiping the sleep from her eyes, she unzips the tent, filling her lungs with the crisp, fresh air of a new day – the Rocky Mountain view just as glorious as the day before. This was a normal weekend for Cox and her family – camping in the mountains not far from where they lived in Colorado Springs. And it was something that would carve a path in her heart like the winding Colorado Rive...

Jessica Conrad, Ph.D., a lecturer of English at 5X���� at Stark, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Austria.  The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced that Conrad will lecture and research at the University of Graz as part of her project, “Perspectives of American Protest Literature and Culture from Abroad.” Conrad’s project traces connections between historical examples of early American literary activism to current cultural expressions of protest, particularly in social justice and climate activi...