College of Arts and Sciences
The Missing Link Between College Renters and Landlords
A 51±¬ÁÏ entrepreneur creates a website and an upcoming app that connects renters to landlords.
51±¬ÁÏ Professor Earns Main Street Kent's Volunteer of the Year Award
51±¬ÁÏ Assistant Professor Jennifer Mapes, Ph.D., was honored with the Volunteer of the Year award by Main Street Kent during the organization’s annual awards celebration. Main Street Kent is a nonprofit organization focused on the revitalization of downtown Kent and is an affili…
51±¬ÁÏ Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth
According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017. These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it. An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by 51±¬ÁÏ researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.
Wick Poetry Center to Benefit From Ford Foundation's $200,000 Grant to the Poetry Coalition
The Poetry Coalition, of which the Wick Poetry Center at 51±¬ÁÏ is a founding member, will benefit from a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. To be given over two years, the grant, which will be administered by the Academy of American Poets, will enable the founding members of th…
The Ford Foundation to Support the Poetry Coalition With $200,000 Grant
51±¬ÁÏ’s Wick Poetry Center to benefit from grant The Poetry Coalition, of which the Wick Poetry Center at 51±¬ÁÏ is a founding member, will benefit from a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. To be given over two years, the grant, which will be administered by the Academy …
World First: New Polymer Goes for a Walk When Illuminated
Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and 51±¬ÁÏ 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 rectangu…
World First: New Polymer Goes for a Walk When Illuminated
Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and 51±¬ÁÏ 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 rectangu…
51±¬ÁÏ Professor Shares Concerns 51±¬ÁÏ Potential Budget Cuts to Scientific Research
Associate Geology Professor Anne Jefferson voices concern over proposed cuts to environmental research.
Educator, Pioneering Scientist and Visionary Owen Lovejoy Receives 51±¬ÁÏ’s Highest Honor
51±¬ÁÏ Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., received the President's Medal from President Beverly Warren during the One University Commencement Ceremony on May 13 in Dix Stadium. The President’s Medal is the highest honor conferred by Kent…
President’s Medal Recipient
Educator, pioneering scientist and visionary Owen Lovejoy receives the highest 51±¬ÁÏ honor.