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Department of Psychological Sciences

Senior Hannah Fender is preparing to defend her honor's thesis.

Finishing the Race: Kent State Senior Is Weeks Away from Defending her Honors Thesis

Hannah Fender is entering the home stretch.

She crunched her bachelor’s degree studies into three years, packed them full of research and other activities and now she is staring down the final 10 weeks of her undergraduate college career.

Tags: Research & Science , Student Life , Profiles , Honors College , Department of Psychological Sciences

Honors College

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Honors College Alumna Speaks Up for Those with No Voice

Honors College alumna Maya Huffman, a native of Toledo, graduated a semester early from Kent State in December 2022, as a double major in psychology and political science with a minor in pre-law. Her story is not only one of academic achievement but also one of community engagement and a commitment to addressing important societal issues.

Tags: Honors College , Honors College , Senior Honors Thesis/Project , Center for Student Involvement , Alumni , Political Science , Department of Psychological Sciences

Honors College

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Coping with Anxiety: What Triggers it and How to Get Treatment

Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., a psychology professor at Kent State University and an expert in the field, emphasizes that triggers for anxiety disorders vary depending on the specific disorder.

Tags: Department of Psychological Sciences , Research & Science , Nationally Distinctive

Kent State Today

Hannah Fender, Kent State senior psychology major.

Addicted to Love of Research

Soon after her decision to major in psychology at Kent State, someone had suggested to Hannah Fender that she should get involved in research as an undergraduate. So, she signed up to work in the research lab of Clare Stacey, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology, looking into how empathy changes over time in medical students. And that's when Fender was first bitten by the research bug. 

Tags: Research & Science , Student Life , Profiles , Department of Psychological Sciences

Honors College

Kent State researchers are kicking off the Student Life Study, an ambitious project that seeks to follow 10,000 students throughout their lifetime to offer help in real time and create a data pool to help inform educational policy.

Studying the Students: New Research Project Hopes to Follow 10,000 Golden Flashes

Kent State researchers are looking for 10,000 students to participate in an ambitious Student Life Study launching this semester. 

Tags: Student Life , University News , Research & Science , Nationally Distinctive , Department of Psychological Sciences , College of Arts and Sciences

Kent State Today

Alena stands next to her thesis research poster "Translating Music into Words: Musical Expression of Figurative Words" at an exhibition in Portland, Oregon.

All or Nothing

Alena Miskinis, a senior and triple major in the Kent State University Honors College, has passionately seized every opportunity she can to pursue her combined interests in the arts and science. With a diverse array of classes intensified by Honors courses, as well as projects, internships, and even…

Tags: Honors College , Department of English , Department of Psychological Sciences , Hugh A. Glauser School of Music

Honors College

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The Quarter-Life Crisis: Kent State Professor Discusses ā€˜Emerging Adulthood’

Kent State University Professor Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., from the Department of Psychological Sciences shares her expertise in a Deseret Magazine article about the quarter-life crisis. She discusses the stage of development called ā€œemerging adulthood.ā€

Tags: Health , Nationally Distinctive , Department of Psychological Sciences , College of Arts and Sciences , Featured Story

Kent State Today

David Disabato, Ph.D. (right)

Postdoc Explores Psychological Well-Being and the Positive Side of Mental Health

The College of Arts and Sciences wishes to congratulate David Disabato, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University, who recently landed a tenure-track faculty position at Baldwin Wallace University, near Cleveland! After earning his Ph.D. at Ge…

Tags: Department of Psychological Sciences , College of Arts and Sciences , mental health

College of Arts & Sciences

Photo of Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., professor in Kent State’s Department of Psychological Sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences

Kent State Psychology Professor to Receive 2022 ATHENA Akron Leadership Award

ATHENA Akron, a women’s leadership organization in Summit County, Ohio, has named Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, its winner of the 2022 ATHENA Akron Leadership Award. She will receive the award on Nov. 17 at the Hilton Akron/Fairlawn.

Tags: Community & Society , Research & Science , Department of Psychological Sciences , College of Arts and Sciences , Research , Leadership , PRADAA , mental health , Awards and Honors

College of Arts & Sciences

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STEM Professors Receive NSF ADVANCE Grant to Explore Impact of Gender and Other Factors on Workload of STEM Faculty

ā€œWho is Counted and What Counts: Tracking Women’s Engagement in Low-Prestige/High-Workload Service Activities at Kent State Universityā€ will examine whether faculty members with underrepresented and/or historically excluded intersecting gender and racial/ethnic identities (IGREs) perform more high-workload, low-prestige service work than their faculty peers.

Tags: Research & Science , College of Arts and Sciences , STEM , Research & Science , Department of Psychological Sciences , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs

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