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Walk This Way

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91�ֿ� Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger examines new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger helps develop new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Walk this Way

Kent Campus

Eindhoven University of Technology researcher Anne Hélène Gélébart shows the walking device. This small device is the world’s first machine to convert light directly into walking, simply using one fixed light source. (Photo credit: Bart van Overbeeke)

Professor Robin Selinger of 91�ֿ�’s Liquid Crystal Institute^® helps develop new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Race, Stress and its Impact on Infant Mortality Among Black Infants

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Ideastream talks with 91�ֿ� Professor Angela Neal-Barnett about the relationship between racial stress and infant mortality.

Ideastream® talks with 91�ֿ� Psychology Professor Angela Neal-Barnett about the relationship between racial stress in black women and ways to reduce the stress before it affects pregnancy.

91�ֿ� Establishes New School of Peace and Conflict Studies

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91�ֿ�’s Center for Applied Conflict Management is transforming into a new School of Peace and Conflict Studies this month.

Acting too White: 91�ֿ� Psychologist Explains How the Accusation Causes Anxiety

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WKYC-TV talks with 91�ֿ� researchers about the Acting White Accusation.

91�ֿ� Professor Angela Neal-Barnett shares her Acting White Accusation research with WKYC-TV and Anxiety.org.

91�ֿ� Receives Multiple Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grants From NSF

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91�ֿ� Researchers Help Find Pathologic Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s Disease in Aged Chimpanzee Brains

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The Missing Link Between College Renters and Landlords

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A 91�ֿ� entrepreneur creates a website and an upcoming app that connects renters to landlords.

91�ֿ� Professor Earns Main Street Kent's Volunteer of the Year Award

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91�ֿ� Assistant Professor Jennifer Mapes, Ph.D., poses beside a map kiosk in downtown Kent that she helped to create.

91�ֿ� Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

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91�ֿ� professor Hanbin Mao (middle) co-authored a paper with graduate students Sagun Jonchhe (left) and Prakash Shrestha (right) on the genetic factors influencing the formation of cancer cells.

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 91�ֿ� researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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