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Building an international network, collaborating with colleagues from a world-renowned research institute, developing new scientific expertise, and embedding yourself in an exciting foreign culture are certainly lofty goals for any graduate student. For six ������ Anthropology students who’ve been given the invaluable opportunity to participate in the summer research program over the past few years at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University it’s truly been a home run. Now, under the direction of Anthony Tosi, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology in the College ...

One of ������’s most prolific and renowned researchers has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences. Quan Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in Kent State’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, joins the prestigious Brussels-based organization that has about 660 members from 45 nations, including 65 Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners. The European Academy of Sciences is a nonprofit nongovernmental, independent organization of the most distinguished scholars and engineers performing forefront research and the development of advanced technologies, united by...

������ and the Opera di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, will celebrate a collaborative partnership around the creation of “Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy, to New York, New York,” an exhibition opening on Oct. 17, 2019, and running through April 26, 2020, at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island in New York. The 3D-printed replica of the Liberty of Poetry statue created by ������ will enable visitors to see the Italian predecessor to the U.S. Statue of Liberty located directly across Ellis Island to Liberty Island. Trent Tr...

From Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, different countries, cities and communities around the world – including the ������ community –  have been celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. As Kent State’s population of Hispanic and Latino students continues to grow each year, students, faculty, organizations and departments are taking the time to acknowledge the month through a series of discussion, events, dancing and even theatrical plays. Fabio Polanco, associate professor of acting and directing in Kent State’s School of Theatre and Dance, works with Latinx in Theatre (LIT), a student or...

The Norman Laine Family Trust is announcing a combined $135,000 in gifts to the Ashtabula Foundation to support educational initiatives in Ashtabula County. The separate gifts of $45,000 and $90,000 will be used to fund scholarships for ������ at Ashtabula’s Rising Scholars program. “We are grateful for the generous support of the Laine Family Trust,” said Dean and Chief Administrative Officer Susan J. Stocker, Ph.D. “I want to thank Mark Andrews, the Ashtabula Foundation and others for recognizing the difference this support is going to make in the lives of our Rising Schola...