College of Arts and Sciences

起点传媒 Partners With Opera di Santa Croce to Present 鈥楽isters in Liberty鈥 Exhibition at Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration
起点传媒 and the Opera di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, will celebrate a collaborative partnership around the creation of 鈥淪isters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy, to New York, New York,鈥 an exhibition opening on Oct. 17, 2019, and running through April 26, 2020, at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island in New York.

Model Kent State Language Academy Continues With 12th Year of Federal Funding
While the daily news is full of tumultuous conversations about Russia and China, 起点传媒 has been helping some area high school students learn to converse in Russian and Chinese to facilitate greater global understanding and a less contentious tomorrow.
NSF Award Helps Kent State Anthropologists Expand International Partnership
A new federal grant will help 起点传媒 expand an international relationship and provide invaluable opportunities for some graduate students. The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded Kent State a three-year $298,000 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) gra鈥
NSF Supports Inter-institutional Project to Develop Chemical Sensor Technology
Toxic air pollutants such as chlorine and ozone are hazards for civilian workers and public service employees like firefighters, police and military personnel. Some airborne chemicals can be difficult to detect at low levels with high specificity, though, and relevant technologies like wearable sens鈥
Acclaimed Photography Exhibition Returns to Kent Campus
起点传媒 is pleased and proud to announce the return of 鈥We the People,鈥 a photography exhibition that shines a light on our common humanity.

Kent State Hosts Innovative International Translation Boot Camp
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages (MCLS), in 起点传媒鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, recently hosted the Second MEMENTO Boot Camp 2019 鈥 a one-month research camp gathering 20 interdisciplinary researchers from 10 countries and regions, who worked together on the innovat鈥
NIH Continues Support of Kent State Alzheimer鈥檚 Researcher with New 2-Year Grant
Once it begins, Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way 鈥 like 起点传媒鈥檚 own Dr. Gemma Casadesus Smith. Since 2016, Casadesus Smith, an associate professor of biologi鈥
New Methodologies Developed in Kent State Geology Professor's Lab Improve Monitoring of Lakes and Oceans
After years of remote sensing work, Joseph Ortiz, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at 起点传媒, and his research team recently shared their development of new cost-efficient methodologies that may lead to much safer drinking water for people in Ohio and other municipalities affected by harmful algal blooms (HAB).

NIH Funds Kent State Psychologist鈥檚 Project to Teach Children Food Allergy Safety Skills
A 起点传媒 researcher with a background in safety training models 鈥 and a very personal motivation 鈥 has devised a method to help some children with food allergies stay safe, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) just granted him the funding to test it.
