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Recycling sign

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. 

Tags: Research & Science, Student Life

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Belden Materials Library

IN A FLASH: Designing for a Better Earth

An Earth Month event today inside the Architecture Library focuses on sustainable building materials. 

Tags: Earth Day, Research & Science, Organizational Sustainability, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, University Libraries

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Earth Fest Stickers

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.

Tags: Student Life, University News, Research & Science, Community & Society, Organizational Sustainability, Community Impact, Kent Student Center

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Students standing in green house

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.

Tags: Research & Science, Nationally Distinctive

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Undergrad researcher at ESDRI symposium

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.

Tags: Division of Research & Sponsored Programs, Research & Science, Undergraduate Research Symposium, Nationally Distinctive, Students First, University News

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Two students in a lab.

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.

Tags: Research & Science, Students First, Nationally Distinctive, University News, Kent State Works

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Professor wearing VR goggles in classroom

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.

Tags: Research & Science, Students First

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