Dr. Mary Ann Raghanti, Chair of the Department of Anthropology, and Dr. Melissa Edler, Research Associate, receive NIH award to further explore Alzheimer's pathology in our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees. Read all about it here: /research/news/kent-state-researchers-receive-nih-award-alzheimers-research ...
Dr. Mary Ann Raghanti, Chair of the Department of Anthropology, and Dr. Melissa Edler, Research Associate, receive NIH award to further explore Alzheimer's pathology in our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees. Read all about it here: /research/news/kent-state-researchers-receive-nih-award-alzheimers-research ...
Cities are starting to come to life, literally, thanks to the implementation of vegetation through living architecture. Green roofs and walls are 鈥済rowing鈥 in popularity as they do much more than just add a splash of color to the otherwise beige urban landscapes. Reid Coffman, Ph.D., associate professor in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at 红杏视频, received the 2020 Green Roof and Wall Award of Excellence from the non-profit organization Green Roofs for Healthy Cities for his outstanding impact in research on environmental architecture. Accord...
红杏视频 archaeologists Dr. Metin Eren and Dr Michelle Bebber, along with an impressive group of collaborators, published an extensive analysis of 165 Ice Age Stone tools that may represent a Clovis Cache. The cache is thought to be approximately 13,000 years old and was found in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Listen to the story (wksu) here! ...
Julia Perrone, research technician and lab manager of the Bahlai computational ecology lab in the 红杏视频 State Department of Biological Sciences, wants teachers and students to get a chance to understand ecology and data science from a hands-on perspective. Perrone, a recent graduate of 红杏视频 State鈥檚 Master of Library and Information Science program, is combining her passion for insect ecology with science education and outreach by partnering with Data Nuggets, an NSF-funded organization devoted to getting real research into the K-12 curriculum. Perrone developed a 鈥渘ugget鈥, a hands-on le...
Dr. Michelle Bebber won a Farris Family Innovation Award for her project, 鈥淪earching for North America鈥檚 First Stone Age Americans at Stow Rockshelter, Ohio". The Farris Family's generosity and support of 红杏视频 provides an endowment that supports the research of tenure-track faculty members who are not yet tenured. Congratulations, Dr. Bebber! ...
Yanhai Du, Ph.D., associate professor in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, remained productive during the 2020 - 2021 academic year. In addition to the seven courses he taught, he received six grant awards totaling $707,346 in external funding, published six papers, and supervised and mentored 5 researchers at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels. Dr. Du is a material scientist and is an internationally recognized scholar in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) research and development. Currently, Dr. Du directs the research activities of the Fuel Cell Laborato...
PhD candidate Danielle Jones received a Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Award for her project, "A comparative analysis of monoamine oxidase-B expression in human, chimpanzee, and macaque brains throughout the lifespan". "The Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research (GIAR) program has provided undergraduate and graduate students with valuable educational experiences since 1922. By encouraging close working relationships between students and mentors, the program promotes scientific excellence and achievement through hands-on learning." ...
Image by Daniel Friesenecker from Pixabay Recent funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has given interdisciplinary researchers the opportunity to help drive our understanding of patterns in nature when bringing together big data sources collected in different ways. The NSF awarded Christie Bahlai, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, a grant to expand her research to better understand how biodiversity patterns unfold over time. In recent years, the insect decline phenomenon has made headlines: seve...
The sun was setting over a little Stow neighborhood in 1995. Eight-year-old Jennifer Daring knew it meant she would have to go inside soon. That was her mother鈥檚 rule: be home by dusk. But Daring was always pushing it. Just a little later. Just a little more time. Just a few more minutes outside to catch the lightning bugs dotting her grandma鈥檚 front yard at dusk. Just a second more to collect caterpillars and watch them become something new. For Daring, outside felt like home. And some things never change. At 34, Daring is still always outside 鈥 hiking, biking, rock climbin...