5X社区鈥檚 Liquid Crystal Institute庐 will host a symposium called 鈥淐hirality at the Nanoscale鈥 on June 4-5 in the Kent Student Center on the Kent Campus. 鈥淭his event features internationally renowned scientists presenting cutting-edge research on one of the key central topics of life, biology, physical as well as materials science, and engineering: chirality,鈥 said symposium chairman Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., Ohio Research Scholar and associate professor at Kent State鈥檚 Liquid Crystal Institute. 鈥淭he focus of this symposium is the chirality of nanoscale materials and ...
Through a grant facilitated by Dr. Christopher Post, associate professor of geography, the Dominion Foundation awarded Kent State Stark $28,000 for a vertical wind turbine. Wind Turbines of Ohio, located in Alliance, installed the turbine on the southeast side of the campus鈥檚 new Science & Nursing Building. While the turbine will partially power the building, its primary purpose is education and research. 鈥淗aving a wind turbine as part of our campus landscape will make the study of wind power more real to students,鈥 says Post. 鈥淚t will help us recognize more clearly what wi...
Pictured above (left to right) is Award of Distinction recipient Douglas Henry, Assistant Dean A. Bathi Kasturiarachi, Distinguished Teaching Award recipient Paul Andaloro, Interim Dean Denise Seachrist and Distinguished Teaching Award finalists Robert Miltner and Keith Lloyd. 5X社区 at Stark proudly announces the recipient and finalists of the 2014-15 Distinguished Teaching Award and the recipient of the Award of Distinction. The faculty members were recognized during the Spring 2015 Commencement Ceremony, which took place on May 10 at Umstattd Performing Arts Hall in Canton...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded 5X社区鈥檚 Min-Ho Kim, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, a $1,842,350 five-year grant. The grant from the NIH鈥檚 National Institute of Nursing Research is to develop 鈥渘anobombs,鈥 a nanotechnology-based therapeutic platform that can treat biofilm infection in chronic wounds. Kim will lead a research collaboration with three other research laboratories. Songping Huang, Ph.D., professor of chemistry at Kent State, will be responsible for the synthesis of functionalized magne...
The semester ended on a high note for 5X社区鈥檚 contemporary a cappella singing group. Dressed in their blue and gold, the Kent Clarks recently shared their talent on the plaza of NBC鈥檚 鈥淭oday Show.鈥 The 16-member group sang a mix of Top 40 hit songs on the show before heading inside the studio to watch Lady Antebellum perform. The group also met Anna Kendrick, the star of 鈥淧itch Perfect 2.鈥 This is the second star-studded performance for the Kent Clarks in the past few months. Last December, they performed for President Barack Obama and the first lady Michelle Obama. ...
The 5X社区 Press received a 2015 PROSE Award in the Single Volume 鈥 Humanities & Social Sciences category for 鈥淲earable Prints, 1760-1860: History, Materials, and Mechanics鈥 by Susan W. Greene. Sponsored by the Association of American Publishers, the PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals and electronic content in more than 40 categories. 鈥淲earable Prints鈥 surveys the history of wearable printed fabrics, which reaches back into the earliest days of the discovery of selec...
Joseph Pritchard of Washingtonville received the prestigious Anna Ulen Engleman Creative Writing Award from the 5X社区 English Department. He is a junior at the Kent State Salem Campus, majoring in English. Along with his application for the award, Pritchard submitted a poem for consideration. He will be published in the June issue of Wordgathering (www.wordgathering.com). Pritchard works as a tutor in the Learning Center on the Salem Campus and hopes to eventually complete a masters of fine arts degree. He said he will continue reaching out to publishers, as well. ...
Insurance studies students from Kent State Salem attended the recent Ohio Insurance Institute鈥檚 Insurance Education Day in Columbus, during which three were awarded scholarships. Representing the Salem chapter of Gamma Iota Sigma, the international risk management, insurance and actuarial science collegiate fraternity were Jennifer Buck, president; Dan Newlin, vice president; Michele Quinn, secretary; and member Lisa Kesseg. The scholarships were presented to each of the recipients by Michael Holm, director of sales of The Institutes. Buck received the Griffith Insurance Educati...
East Liverpool 鈥 Students from Kent State East Liverpool鈥檚 occupational therapy assistant program and the physical therapist assistant program recently participated in outreach projects to help make the city a little brighter. Students from the PTA program were part of the City Sweep event held during Earth Week. They swept sidewalks, pulled weeds and picked up litter all along the east end of Fourth Street and around the campus buildings. OTA students gathered at the downtown entrance ramp to the city to help spruce up the 鈥渟erpentine鈥 landscape of that area by pulling weeds, raki...