Research and Science
Research Into 鈥淟ittle Things鈥 Leads to Big Experience for Local High School Student
Imagine being a 17-year-old high school student, and in your first semester of a geology research internship, your professor asks you to identify an extinct 300-million-year-old, tiny and unknown crustacean specimen. Megan Schinker, then an ambitious Stow-Munroe Falls High School junior, jumped right in. Now a senior in high school, Ms. Schinker, chose Kent State as her undergraduate school where she will pursue a double major in geology and chemistry starting fall 2019.
Kent State Astrophysicist Wins NSF Grant to Search for Exotic Matter in Neutron Stars
Kent State Geologist Wins Grant to Study Climate Change Factors and Inspire Young Scientists
Some natural processes can help slow climate change by removing CO2 from the atmosphere. One of the factors that influences the ability of plants and soils to store carbon is the focus of a new study by Dr. Elizabeth Herndon, Assistant Professor of Geology at Kent State University.
Kent State Researcher Wins NIH Grant to Fight Cancer at a Molecular Level
Single molecule biophysics sounds complicated because it is. Then again, so is cancer.
So it makes sense that one of Kent State University's molecular biophysicists would take on the most notorious challenge in medical science.
Kent State psychologist leads NIH-funded study to identify children at risk for persistent distress after a traumatic injury
Several factors 鈥 including, age, gender, and medical history 鈥 determine how a child processes a trauma and what treatments may be most effective at preventing long-term psychological distress. But what role do parents play?