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Sept. 24, 2019
On Sept. 24, 2019, we were honored to welcome in culinary historian and Jewish educator Michael Twitty at Kent State. Twitty calls his way of cooking Kosher/Soul food “Afro Ashkefardi.” Black and Jewish communities are the only people commonly known to use their culinary works…
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Aug. 12, 2019
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages (MCLS), in ’s College of Arts and Sciences, recently hosted the Second MEMENTO Boot Camp 2019 – a one-month research camp gathering 20 interdisciplinary researchers from 10 countries and regions, who worked…
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Aug. 9, 2019
After years of remote sensing work, Joseph Ortiz, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at , and his research team recently shared their development of new cost-efficient methodologies that may lead to much safer…
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Aug. 8, 2019
A researcher with a background in safety training models — and a very personal motivation — has devised a method to help some children with food allergies stay safe, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) just granted him the funding to test it.
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Aug. 1, 2019
Science is complex, and it’s difficult to discuss it with children under the best circumstances; it’s even more difficult when they are hungry. Two researchers may have cooked up a way to solve both of those problems, and the National Science Foundation…
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July 25, 2019
Bridget Mulvey, Ph.D., associate professor of science education in the College of Education, Health and Human Services; and David Singer, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently merged real geology research…
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July 18, 2019
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $914,000 grant to to lead a collaborative research project to study how and at what rate the geographically most widespread native conifer in the eastern United States, the Eastern Red Cedar tree…
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July 16, 2019
Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., was named the new director of ’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, effective July 1, having been selected for his research accomplishments, entrepreneurial spirit and passion for social impact.
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June 27, 2019
Mary Ann Raghanti, Ph.D., anthropology professor and chair in the College of Arts and Sciences at , is involved in a collaborative research project to examine heart disease in gorillas.