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College of Arts and Sciences

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

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

Tags: Geography, College of Arts and Sciences, Maps, downtown kent

College of Arts & Sciences

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.

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

Tags: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Research, Success Story

Kent Campus

David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at 91�ֿ�, reads a poem during the River of Words poetry reading in the center’s Poetry Park.

Wick Poetry Center to Benefit From Ford Foundation's $200,000 Grant to the Poetry Coalition

Tags: Wick Poetry Center, College of Arts and Sciences, Ford Foundation, Awards and Honors, Success Story

Kent Campus

David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at 91�ֿ�, reads a poem during the River of Words poetry reading in the center’s Poetry Park.

The Ford Foundation to Support the Poetry Coalition With $200,000 Grant

Tags: Wick Poetry Center, College of Arts and Sciences, Ford Foundation, Awards and Honors

Kent Campus

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

World First: New Polymer Goes for a Walk When Illuminated

Tags: Liquid Crystal Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Research, Success Story

Kent Campus

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

World First: New Polymer Goes for a Walk When Illuminated

Tags: Liquid Crystal Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Research

Kent Campus

91�ֿ� Professor voices concerns about budget cuts to environmental research.

91�ֿ� Professor Shares Concerns 91�ֿ� Potential Budget Cuts to Scientific Research

Associate Geology Professor Anne Jefferson voices concern over proposed cuts to environmental research.

Tags: Research & Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Research

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Todd Diacon, 91�ֿ�’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, places the President’s Medal on Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy as 91�ֿ� President Beverly Warren watches.

Educator, Pioneering Scientist and Visionary Owen Lovejoy Receives 91�ֿ�’s Highest Honor

Tags: Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the President, Awards and Honors, President's Medal

Kent Campus

Todd Diacon, 91�ֿ�’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, places the President’s Medal on Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy as 91�ֿ� President Beverly Warren watches.

President’s Medal Recipient

Educator, pioneering scientist and visionary Owen Lovejoy receives the highest 91�ֿ� honor.

Tags: Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the President, Awards and Honors, President's Medal, Success Story

Kent Campus

A student stands vigil on the spot where one of four students was shot on May 4, 1970.

University Commemorates May 4, 1970, Tragedy

Tags: May 4, May 4 Commemoration, May 4 Task Force, May 4 Visitors Center, College of Arts and Sciences, Success Story

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