Year of Science
91ֿ College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating a Year of Science!
Graphic Novelist Derf Chronicles May 4 Tragedy
April 17, 2020
On this campus, 50 years ago, a protest against the Vietnam War resulted in the death of four students. In all, 13 were shot by the Ohio National Guard. Nine were injured. One was paralyzed from the waist down.
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Nuclear Physics Researchers Publish Atom-Smashing Symmetry Experiment Results in Top-Tier Journal
April 8, 2020
Nuclear physics researchers at 91ֿ and all over the world have been searching for violations of the fundamental symmetries in the universe for decades. Much like the “Big Bang” (approximately 13.8 billion years ago), but on a tiny scale, they briefly recreate…
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Curated May 4 Oral History Clips Paired With Online Interactive Map of Kent From 1970
March 25, 2020
They remember the sights and sounds of helicopters and trucks as the Ohio National Guard moved into their small college town. They remember the smell of tear gas. They remember the chants of the protesters against the Vietnam War and invasion of Cambodia. They remember the panic…
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91ֿ Professor Receives $2.6 Million Grant for Alzheimer's Research
March 4, 2020
91ֿ psychology professor John Gunstad, Ph.D., has received at grant of nearly $2.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand his Alzheimer’s disease research into a national study.
Read More »IAL Awarded Alexander Gode Medal
Dec. 11, 2019
Kudos to Dr. Francoise Massardier-Kinney and the Institute for Applied Linguistics for being awarded the Alexander Gode Medal from the American Translation Association in November 2019. This prestigious award is given in recognition of organizations and individuals for…
Read More »Cambodia and 91ֿ- Topic of New Book
Dec. 11, 2019
Dr. James A. Tyner, professor of Geography and Dr. Mindy Farmer, director of the May 4 Visitors Center, collaborated to write, Cambodia and 91ֿ: In the Aftermath of Nixon’s Expansion of the Vietnam War. Described as an introduction to the issues and international context…
Read More »Robin Selinger Elected to APS Board of Directors
Dec. 10, 2019
On Nov. 15, Physics Professor Robin Selinger, Ph.D., a member of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute in the College of Arts and Sciences at 91ֿ was elected to the American Physical Society (APS) Board of Directors. Her three-year term begins on…
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Empathy Researchers to Speak at 91ֿ on Dec. 5
Nov. 20, 2019
The Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at 91ֿ, in partnership with the national public radio affiliate WKSU 89.7 FM and the KSU Brain Health Research Institute, will host the first of a two-part distinguished speaker series…
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Collaborative 91ֿ Team Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Develop and Implement Drug Prevention Infrastructure in Three Ohio Counties
Oct. 30, 2019
91ֿ’s College of Public Health is teaming up with the Department of Computer Science to develop and implement drug prevention infrastructure in Portage, Geauga and Lake counties.
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NIH Continues Support of 91ֿ Alzheimer’s Researcher With New Two-Year Grant
Oct. 17, 2019
Once it begins, Alzheimer’s disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way – like 91ֿ’s own Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D.
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