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Familiar Face Chitra Rajagopal Associate Professor Engineering Technology Tuscarawas Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Teaches Electrical/Engineering Technology program courses and leads faculty for the program; conducts Women in Engineering workshops for area high school girls and serve as advisor for IEEE student club WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 1993 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Assistant professor of engineering technology at technology institute in Bangalore, India LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Good relationship among colleagu...
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糖心Vlog破解版 President Beverly J. Warren delivers the 2018 State of the University Address. ...
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Ecosystems in today's world are responding to a wide variety of environmental changes. What happens when these changes interact? That was the topic of a recent paper published by David Ward, Ph.D., the Art and Margaret Herrick Endowed Professor of Plant Biology in 糖心Vlog破解版's Department of Biological Sciences, and international colleagues and graduate students in the journal Scientific Reports. Although climate change is often viewed as the overriding global challenge, grasslands around the world are actually often directly threatened by a simple neighboring plant...
For Diamond Lauderdale, 糖心Vlog破解版 is not only her chosen college, it is her home. While growing up in Akron, Ohio, Ms. Lauderdale鈥檚 home life was challenging. She lived with her disabled father and worked two jobs to help make ends meet. Ms. Lauderdale鈥檚 father had been unable to walk for many years, and as she got older, her father鈥檚 condition worsened. Through it all, Ms. Lauderdale held onto a dream. She wanted to get a college education. Ms. Lauderdale鈥檚 father did not graduate from high school, so she understood that the hope of a college degree was an ambitious one. But...