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Telegram from the National Urban League

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

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

Kent State Today
Fungal Furniture exhibit at the DI Hub Muselab

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

Fungal Furniture exhibit at the DI Hub Muselab

An innovative experiment creates building materials from fungus.

Brains on Tap will feature a discussion on the benefits of cycling exercise on Parkinson's disease.

Last month鈥檚 鈥淏rains on Tap鈥 discussion on Parkinson鈥檚 disease is now available to listen to on  

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 5X社区鈥檚 Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI) and other Northeast Ohio neuroscientists.

Kent State Researchers Help Find Pathologic Hallmarks of Alzheimer's Disease In Aged Chimpanzee Brains

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.

Photo of Karl Kosko wearing goggles

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

Student working on clothes mannequin

As of 2021, the fashion industry was responsible for 10% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, according to research done by the .

Image of DNA strands by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Hanbin Mao and Yaorong Zheng, both professors of chemistry and biochemistry, are conducting research on the mechanical modulation of cell migrations using DNA nanoassemblies to stop cancer migration.