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Kent State University researchers use indents and boarders on plates to study how optical illusions help people choose smaller portions.

Kent State Study Shows How Optical Illusions May Help Fight Obesity

Kent State researchers build optical illusions into plates to see how they can help us choose smaller portions and ultimately lose weight. 

Tags: Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Research, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, Health, Featured Story

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Kent State Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger examines new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Walk This Way

Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger helps develop new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Tags: Liquid Crystal Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Research, Success Story

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Eindhoven University of Technology researcher Anne Hélène Gélébart shows the walking device. This small device is the world’s first machine to convert light directly into walking, simply using one fixed light source. (Photo credit: Bart van Overbeeke)

Walk this Way

Professor Robin Selinger of Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute® helps develop new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Tags: Liquid Crystal Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Research

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Ideastream talks with Kent State University Professor Angela Neal-Barnett about the relationship between racial stress and infant mortality.

Race, Stress and its Impact on Infant Mortality Among Black Infants

Ideastream® talks with Kent State University Psychology Professor Angela Neal-Barnett about the relationship between racial stress in black women and ways to reduce the stress before it affects pregnancy.

Tags: College of Arts and Sciences, Health, Featured Story, Department of Psychology, Faculty Research, Research

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