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Kent State graduate students (left to right) Karly Cochran, Haylee DeLuca, Liz Baker and Logan Stigall won the prestigious Sloboda and Bukoski Cup at the Society for Prevention Research鈥檚 annual conference. (Photo credit: Ida Cellitti)

Kent State Graduate Students Win Prestigious Research Competition

Four Kent State University graduate students in the Department of Psychological Sciences won the Sloboda and Bukoski Cup at the Society for Prevention Research鈥檚 annual conference.

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Researchers Find Bacterium on Ohio Beaches That Causes Staph Infections

If you go for a swim at some Ohio public beaches, you might want to rise off the lake water and sand before you leave. Researchers at Kent State University found that almost half of the water and sand samples that they collected from along Lake Erie and some other inland lakes tested positive for St鈥

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illustration by Mikey Burton '08

Use Your Head

Kent State researchers are studying how you can train and maintain a healthy brain. / Kent State Magazine

Tags: Research & Science , brain health , population health

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Turning Dogs into Therapists, Kent State Leads the Pack

The Dogs on Campus Pet Therapy Program庐 at Kent State University serves as a model to bring certified therapy dogs to stressed out college students.

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Kent State's Rick Ferdig, Ph.D., served as lead investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to develop a new learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes.

ParkApps: Using Technology to Learn 第一吃瓜网 a National Park

Educators, scientists, and technologists from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Kent State University and Cleveland Metroparks have partnered to develop a new learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes. 

Tags: College of Education, Health and Human Services , School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences , Research Center for Educational Technology , Research , National Science Foundation , Research & Science , Community & Society

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The Glove That Speaks Sign Language

 This might look like an ordinary glove, but it is anything but ordinary. The glove talks. It is in the early stages of helping those who use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate with those who do not.

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Kent State Art Professor Embraces Alter Ego As "Mushroom Hunter"

When Don King, a part-time faculty member in Kent State's School of Art, goes into the woods for a walk, his eyes are trained to see much more than the average hiker.  "I was watching a TV show where a couple of chefs went out into the woods and brought back a huge basket of m鈥

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WKYC TV Gets a Bird鈥檚-Eye View of Drone Technology at Kent State

What started as a hobby a decade ago has turned into a promising future for Kent State University senior Alex Flock. WKYC TV featured Flock for a story on the growing interest in drones and Kent State鈥檚 minor in unmanned aircraft systems. Along with Blake Stringer, Ph.D., assistant professor in Ken鈥

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Scholar Supplies Global Technology Knowledge to Students

Scholar of the Month Pratim Datta Associate Professor of Management and Information Systems and Director of the Ph.D. Program College of Business Administration 2007-present Pratim Datta is an associate professor in the Department of Management and Information Systems and director of the Ph.D鈥

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Kent State Blackstone LaunchPad Explores Wearable Technology Industry With First Ever Collegiate Fashion/Tech Hackathon

24-hour event open to all college students attending a U.S. university Product innovation around the growing wearable technology industry will be the focus of the Kent State University Blackstone LaunchPad鈥檚 second annual 鈥淚nnov8athon鈥 event running Jan. 31 through Feb. 1 at Kent State鈥檚 Rockwell H鈥

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