Year of Science
17cҳ College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating a Year of Science!
Revised Look at Ancient Glaciers Predicts Faster Melting Rate in Antarctica
May 6, 2020
Joseph D. Ortiz, Ph.D., professor and assistant chair in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Geology at 17cҳ, recently authored a “News and Views” article in Nature Geoscience that discusses research carried out by another research team that…
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Is our drinking water quality threatened here in the Great Lakes region?
April 30, 2020
Have you ever seen the “nasty green slime” – properly known as a harmful algal bloom, or HAB in Lake Erie? Remember the July 31, 2014 “Do Not Drink/Do Not Boil” public health warning messages in Toledo? Tests revealed that the algae was producing microcystin, a sometimes deadly…
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Center for Earth Ethics and 17cҳ’s Wick Poetry Center Launch Earth Stanzas, an Interactive Online Earth Day Poetry Project
April 21, 2020
The Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and the Wick Poetry Center at 17cҳ are launching Earth Stanzas, an interactive poetry project in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated around the world on April 22.…
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Radio Play, May 4th Voices, to be broadcast on National Public Radio
April 21, 2020
Celebrity Tina Fey and her husband, KSU alumnus Jeff Richmond will join an ensemble cast in the radio play version of May 4th Voices, written by David Hassler, Director of the Wick Poetry Center and produced and directed by Joe Gunderman, Production Coordinator at NPR affiliate…
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COVID-19 and Local Democracy: What Are the Implications?
April 20, 2020
Ashley Nickels is an assistant professor of political science at 17cҳ. Amanda Clark is an adjunct professor of political science at Nova Southeastern University and an alumna of the 17cҳ PhD program in political science. In this joint essay…
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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 17cҳ 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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17cҳ Professor Receives $2.6 Million Grant for Alzheimer's Research
March 4, 2020
17cҳ 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.
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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…
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