Julia Perrone, research technician and lab manager of the Bahlai computational ecology lab in the Kent State Department of Biological Sciences, wants teachers and students to get a chance to understand ecology and data science from a hands-on perspective. Perrone, a recent graduate of Kent State’s Master of Library and Information Science program, is combining her passion for insect ecology with science education and outreach by partnering with Data Nuggets, an NSF-funded organization devoted to getting real research into the K-12 curriculum. Perrone developed a “nugget”, a hands-on le...
Dr. Michelle Bebber won a Farris Family Innovation Award for her project, “Searching for North America’s First Stone Age Americans at Stow Rockshelter, Ohio". The Farris Family's generosity and support of provides an endowment that supports the research of tenure-track faculty members who are not yet tenured. Congratulations, Dr. Bebber! ...
Yanhai Du, Ph.D., associate professor in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, remained productive during the 2020 - 2021 academic year. In addition to the seven courses he taught, he received six grant awards totaling $707,346 in external funding, published six papers, and supervised and mentored 5 researchers at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels. Dr. Du is a material scientist and is an internationally recognized scholar in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) research and development. Currently, Dr. Du directs the research activities of the Fuel Cell Laborato...
PhD candidate Danielle Jones received a Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Award for her project, "A comparative analysis of monoamine oxidase-B expression in human, chimpanzee, and macaque brains throughout the lifespan". "The Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research (GIAR) program has provided undergraduate and graduate students with valuable educational experiences since 1922. By encouraging close working relationships between students and mentors, the program promotes scientific excellence and achievement through hands-on learning." ...
FUTURE FLASHES DAY JUNE 9 & 10, 2021 We can't wait to show you around! Come experience a campus tour of at Stark. Meet our admissions staff, get your questions answered, tour campus with a current student and learn what makes at Stark your hometown university. Don't miss out! Expect to spend about 75 minutes on campus: Small group (10 people max), 45-minute campus walking tours are led by a current student. Before touring the campus, the tour group will meet with a member of the First Year Experience staff for ...
It’s a Saturday morning in 1981. Sunbeams slowly trickle into a small family tent, covered in sparkling morning dew. The sounds of a campfire crackle in the ears of a then 7-year-old Amanda Cox. Yawning and wiping the sleep from her eyes, she unzips the tent, filling her lungs with the crisp, fresh air of a new day – the Rocky Mountain view just as glorious as the day before. This was a normal weekend for Cox and her family – camping in the mountains not far from where they lived in Colorado Springs. And it was something that would carve a path in her heart like the winding Colorado Rive...
Jessica Conrad, Ph.D., a lecturer of English at at Stark, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Austria. The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced that Conrad will lecture and research at the University of Graz as part of her project, “Perspectives of American Protest Literature and Culture from Abroad.” Conrad’s project traces connections between historical examples of early American literary activism to current cultural expressions of protest, particularly in social justice and climate activi...
Image by Daniel Friesenecker from Pixabay Recent funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has given interdisciplinary researchers the opportunity to help drive our understanding of patterns in nature when bringing together big data sources collected in different ways. The NSF awarded Christie Bahlai, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, a grant to expand her research to better understand how biodiversity patterns unfold over time. In recent years, the insect decline phenomenon has made headlines: seve...
The sun was setting over a little Stow neighborhood in 1995. Eight-year-old Jennifer Daring knew it meant she would have to go inside soon. That was her mother’s rule: be home by dusk. But Daring was always pushing it. Just a little later. Just a little more time. Just a few more minutes outside to catch the lightning bugs dotting her grandma’s front yard at dusk. Just a second more to collect caterpillars and watch them become something new. For Daring, outside felt like home. And some things never change. At 34, Daring is still always outside – hiking, biking, rock climbing, kayakin...
The sun was setting over a little Stow neighborhood in 1995. Eight-year-old Jennifer Daring knew it meant she would have to go inside soon. That was her mother’s rule: be home by dusk. But Daring was always pushing it. Just a little later. Just a little more time. Just a few more minutes outside to catch the lightning bugs dotting her grandma’s front yard at dusk. Just a second more to collect caterpillars and watch them become something new. For Daring, outside felt like home. And some things never change. At 34, Daring is still always outside – hiking, biking, rock climbin...