Written By: Emily Fulmer and Luke Armour Throw it away or recycle it? That is the question ºÚÁÏÍø’s Office of Sustainability hopes students, faculty and staff will pause to ask before automatically tossing something in the bin. Kent State is participating in its ninth annual RecycleMania competition that runs until March 31. Kent State is one of 300 schools competing and one of 14 Ohio schools in the competition. RecycleMania is a competition held each spring across hundreds of college campuses in the United States and Canada. During this eight-week pe...
Feb. 10: Elizabeth Smith-Pryor: PhD, an associate professor of history who specializes in African American history. In 2016, she won the Ford Foundation Senior Fellowship, including an $80,000 stipend, for her ongoing research on the history of the Cleveland Urban League's efforts in the 1960s and 1970s to redefine equality in an era of racialized inequality. Learn more about the Department of History review or purchase A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life Listen to the Elevations interview: ...
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On a cold, rainy Saturday at the end of September, a group of volunteers and researchers trudge up a steep, muddy hill in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP). They’ve come out to celebrate National Public Lands Day and, despite the conditions, they’re having fun planting over 480 native trees on a site near the Brandywine Ski Resort. Christopher Blackwood, PhD, a professor of biological sciences at ºÚÁÏÍø, along with graduate students in the department, partnered with the national park to coordinate the volunteers who are assisting them in an effort to restore a na...
The Department of Biological Sciences is pleased to offer a number of class for major and non-majors this summer. This includes some upper level majors courses only taught in summer. For details or to register, please go to the schedule of classes. Summer Courses *Field Methods in Ornithology &...
The Unique Finds at the ºÚÁÏÍø Museum
Most people know the ºÚÁÏÍø Museum for its amazing fashion and clothing collection, but among its 30,000 pieces are unique finds in and out of the fashion world that continue to wow members of the Kent State and Kent communities. Among the many distinctive items, the museum has 3,200 pieces of American collectible glass from Jabe Tarter and Paul Miller who lived in Akron, Ohio. The collection demonstrates the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of the glassmakers of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. A Rembrandt etching literally hides within the wal...
KSU professor: Road salt appears to be affecting local ecosystems Insects, fish and plant life may be negatively impacted by one of the things that keeps motorists safe during the winter - salt. Salt keeps the streets and sidewalks safe by melting ice that covers them. But Anne Jefferson, a geology professor at ºÚÁÏÍø says if it is too cold, the salt doesn't work. "Below about 10 degrees Fahrenheit, it takes a lot of salt to melt only a little bit of ice," Jefferson said. However, it isn't the ineffectiveness of salt that she finds disturbing, but the amo...
We're Killing Our Lakes and Oceans. The Consequences are Real. We only need to look to the Mediterranean Sea and the North American Great Lakes for dramatic illustrations of what lies in store if we don't act now. On January 5, 2018, a paper published in the journal Science delivered a sobering message: The oxygenation of open oceans and coastal seas has been steadily declining during the past half century. The volume of ocean with no oxygen at all has quadrupled, and the volume where oxygen levels are falling dangerously low has increased even more. We're seeing the...