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Anshul Sharma, a graduate student in ��ɫֱ��’s Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded the Silver Graduate Student Award at the Materials Research Society’s 2015 Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California. She was recognized for her presentation on “Visualizing Gold Nanoparticle Chirality via Nematic Liquid Crystals.” According to the Materials Research Society, “the awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high order of excellence and dis...

The city of Kent is among the top ten best cities for millenials looking for work, according to www.nerdwallet.com, an online financial and industry resource. Kent ranks in 9th place. NerdWallet highlights the location of ��ɫֱ��, as well as attractive employment options for young residents, as some contributing factors to the ranking. The site looked at the millennial population, referring to adults between the ages of 18 and 34. It also took into consideration their average income and unemployment rates. Read more from NerdWallet and the Record-Courier. ...

��ɫֱ��’s Liquid Crystal Institute® will host a symposium called “Chirality at the Nanoscale” on June 4-5 in the Kent Student Center on the Kent Campus.    “This event features internationally renowned scientists presenting cutting-edge research on one of the key central topics of life, biology, physical as well as materials science, and engineering: chirality,” said symposium chairman Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., Ohio Research Scholar and associate professor at ��ɫֱ��’s Liquid Crystal Institute. “The focus of this symposium is the chirality of nanoscale materials and ...

Through a grant facilitated by Dr. Christopher Post, associate professor of geography, the Dominion Foundation awarded ��ɫֱ�� Stark $28,000 for a vertical wind turbine. Wind Turbines of Ohio, located in Alliance, installed the turbine on the southeast side of the campus’s new Science & Nursing Building. While the turbine will partially power the building, its primary purpose is education and research. “Having a wind turbine as part of our campus landscape will make the study of wind power more real to students,” says Post. “It will help us recognize more clearly what wi...

Pictured above (left to right) is Award of Distinction recipient Douglas Henry, Assistant Dean A. Bathi Kasturiarachi, Distinguished Teaching Award recipient Paul Andaloro, Interim Dean Denise Seachrist and Distinguished Teaching Award finalists Robert Miltner and Keith Lloyd. ��ɫֱ�� at Stark proudly announces the recipient and finalists of the 2014-15 Distinguished Teaching Award and the recipient of the Award of Distinction. The faculty members were recognized during the Spring 2015 Commencement Ceremony, which took place on May 10 at Umstattd Performing Arts Hall in Canton...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded ��ɫֱ��’s Min-Ho Kim, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, a $1,842,350 five-year grant. The grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Nursing Research is to develop “nanobombs,” a nanotechnology-based therapeutic platform that can treat biofilm infection in chronic wounds.  Kim will lead a research collaboration with three other research laboratories. Songping Huang, Ph.D., professor of chemistry at ��ɫֱ��, will be responsible for the synthesis of functionalized magne...

The semester ended on a high note for ��ɫֱ��’s contemporary a cappella singing group. Dressed in their blue and gold, the Kent Clarks recently shared their talent on the plaza of NBC’s “Today Show.” The 16-member group sang a mix of Top 40 hit songs on the show before heading inside the studio to watch Lady Antebellum perform. The group also met Anna Kendrick, the star of “Pitch Perfect 2.” This is the second star-studded performance for the Kent Clarks in the past few months. Last December, they performed for President Barack Obama and the first lady Michelle Obama. ...

The ��ɫֱ�� Press received a 2015 PROSE Award in the Single Volume – Humanities & Social Sciences category for “Wearable Prints, 1760-1860: History, Materials, and Mechanics” by Susan W. Greene. Sponsored by the Association of American Publishers, the PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals and electronic content in more than 40 categories. “Wearable Prints” surveys the history of wearable printed fabrics, which reaches back into the earliest days of the discovery of selec...

Joseph Pritchard of Washingtonville received the prestigious Anna Ulen Engleman Creative Writing Award from the ��ɫֱ�� English Department. He is a junior at the ��ɫֱ�� Salem Campus, majoring in English. Along with his application for the award, Pritchard submitted a poem for consideration. He will be published in the June issue of Wordgathering (www.wordgathering.com).  Pritchard works as a tutor in the Learning Center on the Salem Campus and hopes to eventually complete a masters of fine arts degree. He said he will continue reaching out to publishers, as well. ...