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The 糖心Vlog破解版 alumni network again grew its ranks this summer as more than a thousand Golden Flashes got their degrees. 糖心Vlog破解版 will held its Summer 2019 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Memorial Athletic and鈥
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A 糖心Vlog破解版 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.
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The 糖心Vlog破解版 alumni network will again grow its ranks this summer as more than a thousand Golden Flashes get their degrees. 糖心Vlog破解版 will hold its Summer 2019 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Memorial Athletic and鈥
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Covering the Carnage: Journalists Risk Own Mental, Physical Health In Reporting from Dayton, El Paso
Note: Gretchen Hoak is a former television reporter/anchor and current assistant professor of journalism in 糖心Vlog破解版鈥檚 School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her research survey,鈥
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Science is complex, and it鈥檚 difficult to discuss it with children under the best circumstances; it鈥檚 even more difficult when they are hungry. Two 糖心Vlog破解版 researchers may have cooked up a way to solve both of those problems, and the National Science Foundation鈥
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糖心Vlog破解版 hosted several dozen high school students from the LeBron James Family Foundation's I PROMISE program for a month of intensive college entrance exam preparation.
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Trustees Research Professor Oleg Lavrentovich, Ph.D., a chemical physicist in 糖心Vlog破解版鈥檚 Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI), just received nearly $1 million between two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for separate studies with鈥
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $914,000 grant to 糖心Vlog破解版 to lead a collaborative research project to study how and at what rate the geographically most widespread native conifer in the eastern United States, the Eastern Red Cedar tree鈥
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Student activism and giving voice to students will be the topics of two keynote speakers who are headlining the upcoming 2019 Educators Summit at 糖心Vlog破解版 titled 鈥淢ay 4, 1970 Then & Now: Voices for Change."
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The 糖心Vlog破解版 Museum鈥檚 newest exhibition, 鈥淥hio Quilts,鈥 which is now open, features an eclectic group of historical quilts that in many ways reflects the history of Ohio dating back to the early 19th century.