91ֿ’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute will present 15 awards to alumni and academics who have served or trained at the institute as part of its 60th anniversary celebration April 25-26.Here are the award recipients:Lifetime Achievement Awards Cheng Chen, Ph.D. ‘06, is an executive in Apple’s Hardware Technology team, where he has led a diverse technical portfolio spanning liquid crystal display and organic light-emitting diode displays, optics, perceptual computing and vision science. His contributions and leadership have played a key role in t...
A significant fire broke out at the Teatro Universitário (TUCA) of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) in Curitiba, Brazil on April 15. 91ֿ’s American Academy program operates on the PUCPR campus as part of the dual-enrollment partnership established between the two institutions in 2018. The damaged building does not house any American Academy classes, but is the home to the program’s commencement ceremony. The blaze, which reportedly started in an air conditioning unit before a medical student lab coat ceremony, prompted a campus-wide evacuation....
A star-studded lineup of scientists will return to 91ֿ on April 25-26 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute. The institute, formed in 1965, and its former directors, will welcome back numerous accomplished alumni to celebrate its past and look toward the future.Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., current director of the institute, said the event will celebrate the technology scientists are presently researching and the institute’s illustrious past.“91ֿ is the world’s leading institution in the area of liquid crystal – not in Ohio,...
College of the Arts
The New Foundation for Art History (NFAH) has selected Shana Klein, Ph.D., for a 2025 research fellowship.Founded in 2019, the New Foundation for Art History (NFAH) strives to serve the field in innovative ways that have been overlooked or underserved by existing institutions of its kind.Klein, associate professor of art history at 91ֿ, will use this fellowship to complete archival research and research in museum collections to complete her upcoming book: "Spoiled Milk: The Politics of Race and Motherhood in U.S. Art.” Klein’s second book will examine how pictures o...
Representations of sine waves can be found inside and on the roof of the 91ֿ Mathematical Sciences Building. Triangular and circular windows, grids, geometrical shapes, the numbering of rooms and offices and even a spiral representation of the Greek "Golden Selection" illustrate mathematical concepts throughout the building, which was completed in 1993. Want to see one of YOUR photos in “IN A FLASH?” Submit your 91ֿ-related photos to InAFlash@kent.edu and you may see them in a future 91ֿ Today post. Photos should be ...
My name is Ella McCloskey, and I’m a communication studies major with a human development and family sciences minor scheduled to graduate in the spring of 2027. When I first moved onto campus at 91ֿ, I faced some challenges. Throughout my life, I’ve severely struggled with anxiety and depression, and in the very first month of my freshman year, I was diagnosed with ADHD. I entered college as an undecided exploratory major. At first, I felt discouraged seeing people meet and bond over what they wanted to do for a career and the classes they were taking to get there. Then I realized ...