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Kent State University Invests in Flexible Electronics Research to Bolster Regional Economic Development
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Research Incentive Awards The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce Research Incentive awards for Spring 2012.
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Ohio Third Frontier Approves $200,000 in Commercialization Grants to Kent State Researchers The Ohio Third Frontier program recently made three separate grants to Kent State University researchers through the newly established Technology Validation and Start-up Fund, which promotes the commercialization of Ohio technologies developed by the state’s institutions of higher education.
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Kent State Awarded $1.25 Million to Help Build Research and Education Network in Bangladesh An international partnership between Kent State University, the Ohio Academic Resource Network (OARnet) and Ireland’s National Research and Education Network (HEAnet) has been selected to provide advanced technical expertise in building the Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN) through an international competition.
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Kent State’s John L. West Named Trustees Research Professor The Kent State University Board of Trustees recently named John L. West, Ph.D., an internationally respected researcher and the university’s former vice president for research, to a five-year term as Trustees Research Professor, effective July 1.
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Kent State Recognizes Outstanding Research and Scholar Award Recipients on March 28 Six Kent State University faculty members will be recognized during a ceremony on March 28 as the university honors its Outstanding Research and Scholar Award recipients.
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Kent State University Gets Atomic Force Microscope Lab When Hiroshi Yokoyama became director of Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute, he was determined to set the laboratory apart from others.
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Undergraduate Research Presentations Dec. 6 and Dec. 8 Students from Kent State University at Salem will present their research in posters on display tomorrow and Thursday in the student lounge. Students from Human Physiology, Understanding Young Children, Parent-Child Relationships and Introduction to Nursing Research classes will participate.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: New Liquid Crystal-Based Technology that Rapidly Detects Multiple Pathogens in Food to be Introduced On Oct. 26, Crystal Diagnostics will introduce a new technology using liquid crystals to detect multiple harmful pathogens in food in a single test. Crystal Diagnostics is the exclusive licensee of fundamental liquid crystal biosensor technologies developed jointly by a research partnership between Kent State University and Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED).
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JobsOhio’s Mark Kvamme Visits Kent State University’s Centennial Research Park Kent State University received Mark Kvamme, the newly installed interim chief investment officer and president of JobsOhio, on Tuesday, July 26. JobsOhio is the private economic development agency established by Gov. John Kasich and the Ohio legislature. Kvamme visited the university’s Centennial Research Park and three Portage County manufacturing firms that are all licensees of technology developed through research at Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute®.
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Introduction to Proposal Development in Coeus
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Kent State’s Institutional Review Board Thanks Hawks for Many Years of Service
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Kent State Researchers Solve Geometry Problem That Assists Drilling Industry Two Kent State University researchers recently found out that solving an abstract geometry problem can yield unexpected benefits.
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IRB thanks Hawks for many years of service The Kent State University Institutional Review Board (IRB) dropped-in to Professor John Hawks’ class to thank him for his many years of service (1992-2010) on the IRB.
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Kent State Plans Exciting New Liquid Crystal Research Investments Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute®, the most comprehensive research and educational center in the field of liquid crystals, has been demonstrating value with exciting new liquid crystal science initiatives since its creation in 1965.
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Kent State Plans Exciting New Liquid Crystal Research Investments Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute®, the most comprehensive research and educational center in the field of liquid crystals, has been demonstrating value with exciting new liquid crystal science initiatives since its creation in 1965. The applications of breakthrough findings at the institute have had an impact on the world, from liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions to computer monitors to new electronic devices, like the iPad.
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Global Technology Leader to Visit Kent State to Discuss Liquid Crystal Research Samsung Electronics Corporation is a leader in the global market of high-tech electronics manufacturing and digital media, and the largest producer of liquid crystal displays in the world. On Friday, May 20, Dr. Sung Tae Shin, senior vice president of Samsung’s LCD Center in South Korea, will visit Kent State University on to discuss the university’s groundbreaking research involving new applications for liquid crystal display technologies.
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Kent State Liquid Crystal Researcher to Speak at Ohio Innovation Conference Kent State University researcher and chemistry professor John West from the university’s Liquid Crystal Institute will be among the top business leaders, government officials and university representatives who will speak at the “Building the Ohio Innovation Economy” conference in Cleveland, on April 25 and 26.
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Increasing Scarcity of Mineral Based Materials Education and Research Seminar by James D. McGuffin-Cawley, Thursday, April 21, 2011, 11:00am, KSU Samsung Auditorium Liquid Crystal & Materials Science Building
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Jakli receives 2010 Luckhurst-Samulski Prize
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Kent State Honors Three Faculty Members with 2011 Distinguished Scholar Awards, April 15 Three Kent State University faculty members will be recognized as Distinguished Scholar Award recipients at a luncheon ceremony on April 15.
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2011 Celebration of Scholarship to showcase faculty and student research and creativity Celebration of Scholarship is scheduled for Friday, April 15. The events that comprise the celebration showcase research and creative activity and acknowledge, reward and support the culture of research and inquiry at Kent State University.
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Kent State Names New Vice President for Research Kent State University has named Dr. W. Grant McGimpsey as its new vice president for research. McGimpsey comes to Kent State from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass., where he serves as director of the WPI Bioengineering Institute, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and professor of biomedical engineering.
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President Obama Honors Kent State Alum and Former LCI Researcher Kent State University alumnus Dr. Ivan Smalyukh was recently honored at the White House, receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Barack Obama. Smalyukh, who earned his doctorate in chemical physics from Kent State in 2003, was also a researcher and adjunct assistant professor at Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI).
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President Obama praises Kent Displays, Inc. in Northeast Ohio stop President Barack Obama hosted the “Winning the Future” forum in Cleveland yesterday to meet with the Northeast Ohio business community, including Albert Green, CEO of Kent Displays, Inc., a local spin-off company of the Liquid Crystal Institute that employs about 100 people.
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Meet and discuss collaborations with Rockwell Automation on February 15 On Tuesday, February 15, the Division of Research and Sponsored Programs will host a Research Partnerships Forum with Rockwell Automation: “Collaboration with Rockwell Automation Advanced Technology Lab”, from 9:30 A.M.- 12:00 P.M. in Kent Student Center, Room 306. This is a cross-disciplinary discussion for faculty to meet with Rockwell Automation leaders to identify potential collaborative research areas. Potential areas of mutual interest include: Sensors, manufacturing and automation, forecasting, sustainability, intelligent systems, autonomous systems and more. Industries served range from automotive to life sciences to semiconductor/electronics.
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Attend webinar on November 8-10: Federal Research Priorities and Budgets for FY11 Do you wish you knew where federal agencies are headed and how to align your funding requests to their priorities and direction? Join us for this webinar and hear directly from program personnel at the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Naval Research, Army Medical and Materiel Command, and the Departments of Agriculture, Education and Energy as they share agency direction and funding priorities for the coming year.
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Researchers Discover New Phenomenon Involving Liquid Crystals A team of researchers at Kent State University have discovered a new version of a widely used scientific technique. The technique is electrophoresis — in which an applied electric field is used to move particles dispersed in a fluid — and the new idea is to use a liquid crystal as the carrier fluid. The result is increased versatility, which may lead to new uses in display technologies, microfluidic devices and other applications. Oleg Lavrentovich, director of Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute, collaborated with Kent State graduate student Israel Lazo and Oleg Pishnyak, a former Kent State graduate student who is now a senior scientist at Kent Displays, Inc. Their findings are published in the Oct. 21 edition of Nature, an international weekly journal of science.
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Liquid Crystal Day 2010 Takes Place Oct. 8 Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program invite you to attend Liquid Crystal Day 2010, “Liquid Crystals With Biological Relevance” on Friday, Oct. 8, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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Meet and discuss collaborations with GOJO Industries on October 18 On Monday, October 18, the Division of Research and Sponsored Programs will host a Research Partnerships Forum with GOJO Industries: “The Hand Hygiene Gap”, from 8:30- 11:00 A.M. in Kent Student Center, Room 306. This cross-disciplinary discussion is for biosciences/biomedical, behavioral, public policy faculty and GOJO leaders to identify collaborative research areas.
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Kent State Faculty encouraged to attend SBIR 101 Workshop on October 5 The Division of Research and Sponsored Programs encourages faculty members who plan to collaborate with small businesses (or are considering a start-up) to attend “SBIR 101”, a Small Business Innovation Research Grant Workshop, on Tuesday, October 5 from 9 a.m. – 12 noon at the Kent Student Center, Room 306A.
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U.S. SBA Funding Supports Kent State-based Flexible Electronics Cluster Northeast Ohio’s emerging flexible electronics industry recently received a boost in the form of a $499,514 contract from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Innovative Economies initiative. The funding was awarded to NorTech, a regional nonprofit economic development organization, leading efforts to develop regional innovation clusters in Northeast Ohio. NorTech will use the funds to focus on small business growth and job creation in the region’s flexible electronics industry.
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Kent State Signs Second Tenant for Centennial Research Park Universities are increasingly playing key roles in driving technology-based economic development across the country. Kent State University recently took an important step in this area with the signing of Pathogen Systems Inc. as the second tenant in Centennial Research Park, the business accelerator located at the intersection of state Routes 59 and 261 in Kent, Ohio, near Kent State’s campus.
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Dr. Sonia Alemagno Named Interim Vice President for Research On July 1, 2010, Dr. Sonia Alemagno, professor of health policy and management and interim associate dean for the College of Public Health at Kent State University, will assume the role of interim vice president for research. She will succeed Dr. John West, who will return to a faculty position.
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NIH Awards $2.7-Million Grant to Kent State The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $2.7-million grant to Kent State University for a collaborative research project with Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing, Summa Health System in Akron and University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland to study cognitive impairment in heart failure patients. The four-year grant from NIH’s National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute runs through Jan. 31, 2014.
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2010 Celebration of Scholarship The celebration will showcase the creative activity and explorative nature of university scholars. This year’s series will acknowledge, reward and support the culture of research at Kent State University.
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Governor Announces Kent State as a Center of Excellence Gov. Ted Strickland has named Kent State as a Center of Excellence in Enabling Technologies: Advanced Materials and Sensors for the state of Ohio. Kent State joins four other universities throughout the state to receive this distinction.
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CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop May 13 CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop: The Division of Research and Sponsored Programs is holding a one-day workshop on proposal writing for faculty members, May 13. Registration deadline is April 20.
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Kent State Assistant Professor Receives $523,859 NSF Grant Dr. Ruoming Jin, assistant professor of computer science at Kent State University, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop data mining technologies. The five-year CAREER grant of $523,859 is for his project titled "Novel Data Mining Technologies for Complex Network Analysis."
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Celebration of Scholarship, March 23-25 Events Schedule Kent State University hosts Celebration of Scholarship, an event that showcases the creative activity and exploratory nature of university scholars, on March 23 to 25. This year’s theme is “A Century of Curiosity: Local Collaborations That Have a World Impact.” The three-day event acknowledges, rewards and supports the culture of research at Kent State.
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Kent State Researchers Take Lead in Significant Physics Discovery Ten Kent State University researchers are part of a team of international scientists who have discovered the most massive antinucleus discovered to date. They are part of an international team of scientists studying high-energy collision of gold ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collidor (RHIC), a 2.4 mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y.
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"Ardi" Research Findings Named Science Breakthrough of the Year Ardipithecus ramidus, or “Ardi,” receives the top honor as the Breakthrough of the Year, named by Science and its publisher, AAAS, the world’s largest science society. “Ardi,” a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago, was unveiled on Oct. 1 by Kent State University Professor of Anthropology Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy and his colleagues.
Events
Current Events
Symposium on Flexible Liquid Crystal Devices
- Symposium to be held September 26-27, 2012 in the Kent Student Center, Kiva Auditorium
- Symposium home page
- This two-day conference focuses on the latest developments in flexible liquid crystal devices: displays, e-writers, eyewear, photovoltaics, sensors and biomedical devices. This symposium highlights presentations from technology and business leaders in each field. It also includes a poster session reporting the latest research and developments from members of FLEXMatters: the Northeast Ohio collaborative fostering the growing regional cluster in flexible electronics.
Past Events
Symposium on "Advances in Organic Photovoltaics" - Featuring a Keynote Presentation by Dr. Alan Heeger (2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry)
- Symposium to be held April 17, 2012 from 12:30 - 6 PM at Kent State University, Kent Campus, Kiva Auditorium
- Symposium home page
- Register for the Symposium
Outstanding Research and Scholarship Awards
- Award recipients are expected to be announced on the Kent State University home page on March 26.
- The event (ceremony and reception) will be held on March 28 at 5:30 PM in the Cartwright Hall lobby (atrium). Cocktail reception will begin at 5:30 PM. Ceremony will begin at 5:45 PM.
- Dr. John Harris, (Yale University) will give a public lecture "An Odyssey Through Our Universe" at 7 PM in the Cartwright Hall Auditorium following the Awards Ceremony. Free and open to the public.
Celebration of Scholarship
- 2011 Celebration of Scholarship, April 15, 2011
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2010 Celebration of Scholarship, March 23-25, 2010
Research Partnerships Forum
- "Collaboration with Rockwell Automation Advanced Technology Lab", February 15, 2011
- "The Hand Hygiene Gap", GOJO Industries, October 18, 2010
Workshops
- CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop, May 3, 2012
- NIH Workshop: "Ensuring Impact and Innovation in Your Proposal" -- Elizabeth Tornquist, August 15, 2011
- Introduction to Proposal Development in Coeus (multiple dates in Summer 2011)
- CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop, April 28, 2011
- Brown Bag Lunch Meeting: "Data Management Plan Requirement for Proposals by the National Science Foundation", April 29, 2011
- NIH Workshop -- Elizabeth Tornquist, December 6, 2010
- SBIR 101 Workshop, October 5, 2010
- CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop, May 13, 2010
