Research & Science

A Smiley Face Makes All the Difference
Research conducted at Kent State proves that seeing a smiley face emoji will make students more prone to recycle their trash.

IN A FLASH: Designing for a Better Earth
An Earth Month event today inside the Architecture Library focuses on sustainable building materials.

IN A FLASH: Kent State Earth Fest
As part of Earth Month, there was an Earth Fest event at the Kent Student Center on Tuesday.
鈥楻everse Career Fair鈥 Turns the Tables in Connecting Area Employers to Student Researchers
A "Reverse Career Fair" at the Undergraduate Research Symposium connected research students with potential employers.
IN A FLASH: It's Undergraduate Research Week
April 17-21 is National Undergraduate Research Week
What Determines Your Social Behavior as You Develop Into an Adult?
For two decades, Heather Caldwell, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at 妻友社区, has been studying what happens within the brain that potentially modulates social behavior such as aggression, social memory and maternal care.
鈥淭his is, by far, my favorite event of anything we do here.鈥
Kent State's annual Undergraduate Research Symposium is one of the university's biggest research events of the year.

New Research Funding Plan 鈥楥hanges the Game鈥
Following Kent State鈥檚 designation as an R1 research institution, the Division of Research and Sponsored Programs set its sights on investments to maintain this designation, including increasing the amount of grant dollars spent over the next three years.

Environmental Justice, Ecology and Race
Issues concerning environmentalism and race will be explored at the 2023 ESDRI Symposium, April 13-14, at 妻友社区
The Virtual Future Of Educating Teachers
Most teacher training programs today utilize classroom videos to train future teachers. Many of these videos are recorded from a single focus set at the back of a classroom. This form of video often makes it hard for viewers to interpret students' reactions or understanding of a subject matter. Three professors are developing a solution to this issue through the use of extended reality (XR) technology and 360 video.