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NSF Award Helps 91�ֿ� Anthropologists Expand International Partnership

Division of Research & Economic Development

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NSF Supports Inter-institutional Project to Develop Chemical Sensor Technology

Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

Military personnel in camouflage put on ventilator masks before an exercise involving airborne toxins

NSF Awards 91�ֿ� Researchers $1.3 Million to Nourish Children’s Minds, Fill Their Bellies

Division of Research & Economic Development

A man in a chef's hat shows young children how to make food.

Science is complex, and it’s difficult to discuss it with children under the best circumstances; it’s even more difficult when they are hungry. Two 91�ֿ� researchers may have cooked up a way to solve both of those problems, and the National Science Foundation just awarded them a three-year, $1.3 million grant to determine if their recipe works.

NSF Awards 91�ֿ� Researcher Nearly $1 Million for Separate Liquid Crystal Studies

Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

Oleg Lavrentovich, Ph.D. (second from left), works in a microscopy lab with a colleague and 91�ֿ� students.

Trustees Research Professor Oleg Lavrentovich, Ph.D., a chemical physicist in 91�ֿ�’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI), just received nearly $1 million between two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for separate studies with potential applications in biomedical science, commercial electronics and beyond.

91�ֿ� Biological Sciences Researchers to Lead Study on the Effects of the Spreading Eastern Red Cedars

Kent Campus

Close up image of an Eastern Red Cedar branch with berries. (Photo by Sheila Brown, publicdomainpictures.net)

The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $914,000 grant to 91�ֿ� to lead a collaborative research project to study how and at what rate the geographically most widespread native conifer in the eastern United States, the Eastern Red Cedar tree species (Juniperus virginiana), spreads across the landscape.

NSF Award Funds Sensor Research at 91�ֿ�’s New Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

Kent Campus

91�ֿ� researchers Elda and Torsten Hegmann pose with one of the sensors they created that detects toxic gases. The sensors can be made any shape or size and require no power to function.

Thanks to a rare Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), 91�ֿ� researchers in the new Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute will be able to work with partners at Merck Performance Materials to advance life-saving sensory technology.

U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan Announces $3.7 Million in Federal Research Grants to 91�ֿ�

Kent Campus

U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (left) meets with 91�ֿ� professors whose research is being funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Science Foundation. U.S. Rep. Ryan visited 91�ֿ�’s campus on Sept. 10.

Psychological Sciences Graduate Students Awarded NSF Fellowships

College of Arts & Sciences

Pictured from left to right are Dr. John Dunlosky, Jessica Janes, Nola Daley, and Dr. Katherine Rawson

91�ֿ� Research Group Publishes Analysis of Primate Brains in Top Science Journal

Kent Campus

Two chimpanzees are pictured sitting in the grass. A recent study co-authored by researchers at 91�ֿ� looks at the differences of human brains compared to the brains of other primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and monkeys.

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

Kent Campus

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