ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï

College of Arts and Sciences

WKYC-TV talks with ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State researchers about the Acting White Accusation.

Acting too White: ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Psychologist Explains How the Accusation Causes Anxiety

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Professor Angela Neal-Barnett shares her Acting White Accusation research with WKYC-TV and Anxiety.org.

 

Tags: Health , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs , Department of Psychology , College of Arts and Sciences , Featured Story

Flash Feed

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Receives Multiple Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grants From NSF

Several ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï professors in the College of Arts and Sciences have been selected to receive Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). REU grants are designed to provide faculty with funding to create research positions and experie…

Tags: Liquid Crystal Institute , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Department of Mathematical Sciences , Biological Sciences , College of Arts and Sciences , National Science Foundation , Grants , Research , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Campus

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Researchers Help Find Pathologic Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s Disease in Aged Chimpanzee Brains

Dementia affects one-third of all people older than 65 years in the United States. The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive, irreversible brain disease that results in impaired cognitive functioning and other behavioral changes. Humans are considered uniquely susc…

Tags: Department of Anthropology , College of Arts and Sciences , Research

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Campus

A ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State entrepreneur creates a website and an upcoming app that connects renters to landlords.

The Missing Link Between College Renters and Landlords

A ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State entrepreneur creates a website and an upcoming app that connects renters to landlords.

Tags: Community & Society , College of Arts and Sciences , Student Success , LaunchNet ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State , Featured Story

Flash Feed

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Assistant Professor Jennifer Mapes, Ph.D., poses beside a map kiosk in downtown ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï that she helped to create.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Professor Earns Main Street ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï's Volunteer of the Year Award

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Assistant Professor Jennifer Mapes, Ph.D., was honored with the Volunteer of the Year award by Main Street ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï during the organization’s annual awards celebration. Main Street ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï is a nonprofit organization focused on the revitalization of downtown ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï and is an affili…

Tags: Geography , College of Arts and Sciences , downtown kent

College of Arts & Sciences

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State professor Hanbin Mao (middle) co-authored a paper with graduate students Sagun Jonchhe (left) and Prakash Shrestha (right) on the genetic factors influencing the formation of cancer cells.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï 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 ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï 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 , Success Story

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Campus

David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï, reads a poem during the River of Words poetry reading in the center’s Poetry Park.

Wick Poetry Center to Benefit From Ford Foundation's $200,000 Grant to the Poetry Coalition

The Poetry Coalition, of which the Wick Poetry Center at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï is a founding member, will benefit from a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. To be given over two years, the grant, which will be administered by the Academy of American Poets, will enable the founding members of th…

Tags: Wick Poetry Center , College of Arts and Sciences , Awards and Honors , Success Story

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Campus

David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï, reads a poem during the River of Words poetry reading in the center’s Poetry Park.

The Ford Foundation to Support the Poetry Coalition With $200,000 Grant

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s Wick Poetry Center to benefit from grant The Poetry Coalition, of which the Wick Poetry Center at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï is a founding member, will benefit from a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. To be given over two years, the grant, which will be administered by the Academy …

Tags: Wick Poetry Center , College of Arts and Sciences , Awards and Honors

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Campus

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger examines new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

World First: New Polymer Goes for a Walk When Illuminated

Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï in Ohio have developed a new material that can undulate and therefore propel itself forward under the influence of light. To achieve this, the scientists clamp a strip of this polymer material in a rectangu…

Tags: Liquid Crystal Institute , College of Arts and Sciences , Research , Success Story

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Campus

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger examines new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

World First: New Polymer Goes for a Walk When Illuminated

Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï in Ohio have developed a new material that can undulate and therefore propel itself forward under the influence of light. To achieve this, the scientists clamp a strip of this polymer material in a rectangu…

Tags: Liquid Crystal Institute , College of Arts and Sciences , Research

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Campus