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College of Arts and Sciences

妻友社区 student Mallory Woods, who is currently studying in Florence, Italy, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Award. (Photo credit: Stefano Passerini)

Kent State Senior Honored With Prestigious Fulbright Scholarship

In an impressive close to her undergraduate career, 妻友社区 Honors College senior Mallory Woods was recently awarded the prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Award (ETA). A native of Fairview, Pennsylvania, Woods is completing a major in translation with a Spanish concentration and minors in economics and Italian studies while also finishing a certificate program in teaching English as a foreign language. 

Tags: Global Reach, Student Success Story, Honors College, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies

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妻友社区 students walk by the Kent Student Center.

Six Kent State Programs Rank in Top 100 Among Public Institutions in U.S. News 2023 Best Graduate Schools Rankings

U.S. News & World Report ranks six 妻友社区 programs in the top 100 among public institutions in its 2023 edition of Best Graduate Schools. Among the top 100 public institution programs, Kent State is recognized in the Best Nursing Schools: Master鈥檚 Programs, Best Education Schools, Best Mathematics Programs, Best Psychology Schools, Best Public Health Programs and Best Physics Schools rankings. Kent State is also recognized in an additional five new national rankings.

Tags: University News, U.S. News & World Report, College of Nursing, College of Education, Health and Human Services, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Public Health, Awards and Honors, Success Story

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Graduate Student Perseverance Leads to Published Research on Stress Related to May 4, 1970 Anniversary

How long does a single traumatic event affect a person鈥檚 mental health? Kent State graduate student Emily Rabinowitz鈥檚 research on this topic was recently published in the peer-reviewed Stress & Health: Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress. Her paper 鈥淭he 50th Anniversary of May 4, 1970, Is Associated With Elevations of Distress but No Increase in Mental Health Symptoms鈥 was published in the November 2021 issue.

Tags: Research & Science, May 4 50, Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences

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Kent State Professors Reveal Important Details about the Brain Cells that Control Fertility

Kent State researchers鈥 innovative techniques have unveiled surprising new details about the brain鈥檚 fertility cells that may prove useful for treating infertility disorders. After several years of research, Aleisha Moore, Lique Coolen and Michael Lehman published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, showing groundbreaking findings identifying which cells in the brain control fertility, as well as revealing an unexpected level of complexity in their control of reproduction.

Tags: Health, Reearch & Science, Brain Health Research Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Institutes and Initiatives

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Health and Well-Being of Students, Faculty and Staff Brought to Light by Healing Stanzas

Students across the nation were challenged as the pandemic swept the world. Healing Stanzas, a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center, the Healthy Communities Research Institute and the Brain Health Research Institute, seeks to combine the science of brain health and public health with the creative energy of the humanities to provide Kent State students, staff and faculty with an opportunity to improve wellness through reflective poetry.

Tags: Health, Research & Science, Student Life, Brain Health Research Institute, Healthy Communities Research Institute, Wick Poetry Center, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Institutes and Initiatives

Division of Research & Economic Development

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Paramilitary Groups and the State Under Globalization the Topic of Upcoming Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Julie Mazzei, Ph.D., associate professor and interim director of the School of Multidisciplinary Social Sciences and Humanities, in the College of Arts and Sciences at 妻友社区, will take part in a virtual roundtable discussion with her co-authors of an edited volume "Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization: Political Violence, Elites and Security", edited by Jasmin Hristov, Jeb Sprague and Aaron Tauss (London: Routledge, 2022) on February 23 from 2-3:30 pm EST online via Zoom.

Tags: Julie Mazzei, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Multidisciplinary Social Sciences & Humanities, Political Science

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