Research & Science
¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researchers Study Climate Change in Alaska
Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two ¹ú²úÂ×Àí professors are researching climate change in Alaska. Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professors from ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Arts and Sciences, spent a week in Fairbanks…
¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researchers Study Climate Change in Alaska
Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, ¹ú²úÂ×Àí professors are researching climate change in Alaska.
¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researchers Develop City Planning Software
Three Kent Researchers Land Grant to Develop City Planning Software
As the City of Kent continues its renaissance, and nearby cities like Akron and Youngstown continue to refine their plans to revitalize, an understanding of how people use a city and move through it could be vital to development plans.
A grant from the National Science Foundation could put some ¹ú²úÂ×Àí researchers in a position to help such cities find and use that data.
The two-year $100,000 grant will contribute to the work of Associate Professor of Computer Science Dr. Ye Zhao, Assistant Professor of Geography, Dr. Xinyue Ye, Professor of Geography, Dr. Andrew Curtis, and their colleague, Computer Science Professor, Dr. Jing Yang of UNC-Charlotte.
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The Fight Against Toxic Algal Blooms Gets Help From the Sky
Researchers have a new tool to help study, and ultimately fight, toxic algal blooms on Lake Erie /
Scholar Navigates Complex Systems to Help Address and Improve Public Health Concerns
Scholar of the Month Brian Castellani Professor of Sociology ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Ashtabula 2002-present The Kent Campus is big, but still not big enough to fit all the great scholars who are part of the ¹ú²úÂ×Àí family. So much of ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s great research is happening …
¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researchers Identify Ways to Combat Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie
The green and blue colored algae that grows out of control, and often washes up on the shoreline of Lake Erie, is not only unsightly but harmful to many species including humans. In Ohio, the western basin of Lake Erie has experienced some of the worst harmful algal blooms in recent years. The bloo…
¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researchers Launch Free Math Multiplication Learning App for Elementary Grades
Educators, researchers and computer scientists from ¹ú²úÂ×Àí have partnered to develop a math learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes.
¹ú²úÂ×Àí Graduate Students Win Prestigious Research Competition
Four ¹ú²úÂ×Àí graduate students in the Department of Psychological Sciences won the Sloboda and Bukoski Cup at the Society for Prevention Research’s annual conference.
Geographer Examines Ties Between Violence and Landscapes
Scholar of the Month James Tyner Professor College of Arts and Sciences 1997-present Selecting a single renowned scholar from ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s largest college is not an easy undertaking, but the work of Geography Professor James Tyner, Ph.D., over the past year made the decision a litt…
Researchers Find Bacterium on Ohio Beaches That Causes Staph Infections
If you go for a swim at some Ohio public beaches, you might want to rise off the lake water and sand before you leave. Researchers at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí found that almost half of the water and sand samples that they collected from along Lake Erie and some other inland lakes tested positive for St…
