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�鶹��ý's Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Todd Diacon announced the following leadership appointments: University Libraries Kenneth Burhanna has been appointed interim dean of University Libraries, effective July 1, 2017. Burhanna has served as assistant dean for engagement and outreach in University Libraries since March 2013, and as interim director of University Press for the last year. He is an associate professor in University Libraries. "Ken brings a wealth of expertise and experience to this position," Diacon says. "He just completed the UCLA...

Several �鶹��ý 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 experiences specifically for undergraduate students. These students typically come from two- or four-year institutions that may not provide access to many research opportunities.    Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., a professor at Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute®, and Mike Tubergen, Ph.D., a profe...

�鶹��ý faculty and students in the Department of Physics, in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently played a key role in using a new silicon detector technology to examine nuclear collisions that recreate the Big Bang on a tiny scale in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, on Long Island.  By looking at the behavior of particles that decay just tenths of a millimeter from the center of a trillion-degree fireball that mimics the early universe, nuclear physicists smashing atoms at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Co...

Grab the sunscreen and camera. It’s summer vacation season again, and e-Inside wants to feature some of your best vacation or staycation photos, including selfies. Submit your favorite vacation or staycation photos and a brief description to einside@kent.edu by Tuesday, July 25. Depending on the number of entries that we receive, yours might be featured in e-Inside. Please use "Summer Vacation Photos" as your email subject line. ...

�鶹��ý’s Institute for Applied Linguistics has received a grant for $1 million from the Gawlicki Family Foundation of Hartford, Connecticut, to fund the development of a state-of-the-art distance learning translation studies program. The Institute for Applied Linguistics is a research and education program affiliated with the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies within the College of Arts and Sciences. The funding will be used to further distinguish the institute, which already is recognized internationally as a leading program in translation studies. Specifica...

Randy Roberts, a student working toward his associate’s degree in enology at �鶹��ý at Ashtabula, uses his previous degree in biology to help supplement his education. Roberts previously received his bachelor’s degree from Kent State in 2010 and went to work as a research assistant at Ohio State Orthopaedics, researching new antibiotic regimens. He believes his previous experience working in the sciences has helped prepare him for a future career in the wine industry. “I already have gone through a lot of chemistry and biology in my prior education and work experience,”...

Poetry kiosks written for Traveling Stanzas through �鶹��ý’s Wick Poetry Center, in the College of Arts and Sciences, have found their home in downtown Kent for months and recently expanded to eight Kent Campus locations. Traveling Stanzas first began in 2009 as a community arts program and was a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center and visual communication design students. The kiosks feature posters designed by Kent State visual communication design students and alumni, and an audio button, which when pushed reads the poem in the author’s voice. “This is an exci...

LET'S CLEAR THE AIR Clearing the Air aligns with the priorities of the university’s healthy campus initiative, Kent State of Wellness. This initiative seeks to foster a culture of health and wellness for students and employees at all campuses and is part of the university’s Strategic Roadmap. Tobacco smoke contains a deadly mix of more than 7,000 chemicals; hundreds are harmful, and about 70 can cause cancer. There are health benefits to quitting smoking at any age - it is never too late to quit. Seven out of 10 adult smokers surveyed said they wanted to quit comple...

Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and �鶹��ý 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 rectangular frame. When illuminated, it goes for a walk all on its own. This small device, the size of a paperclip, is the world’s first machine to convert light directly into walking, simply using one fixed light source. The researchers, including Professor Robin Selinger of Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Ins...

Written by Beacon Journal Staff KENT: �鶹��ý’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative has received a $6,268 grant from the Ohio Environmental Education Fund to help restore fish habitats in the Cuyahoga River shipping channel in Cleveland. The Kent State group was one of eight Ohio communities and organizations to receive a share of $239,941 to support environmental education programs. The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative will use the money to show property owners and developers in Cleveland’s Flats area how they can incorporate new areas of fish habitat into their riverfro...