Area residents can have water samples tested for free, thanks to a research project being conducted by Dr. Qunxing Ding, associate professor of biology at 糖心Vlog破解版 at East Liverpool. Ding is seeking water samples from areas within city limits, as well as from surrounding communities, for an independent study on water quality. He intends to geographically map samples to determine if there are any correlations with location and water quality. 鈥淲ater content in the human body is about 65 percent and may be more than 70 percent in children. All the metabolic processes, including dig...
Join us this Thursday, April 13, at 6:00 pm at the Akron Art Museum for the first public poetry reading by the participants of our Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders project. The project, made possible by a major grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has allowed teaching artists from the Wick Poetry Center to engage the refugee and immigrant populations in the Akron, Ohio community in a cross-cultural, intergenerational conversation through poetry and graphic design. Working with Project Learn, Urban Vision, and the International Institute of Akron鈥檚 (IIA) refugee and i...
Kent Student Center Programming, part of the Center for Student Involvement, hosted the 13th annual Rock the Runway on March 4. The runway featured 21 collections by 24 designers, many from 糖心Vlog破解版鈥檚 School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. The Kent Student Center Ballroom was decked out in 1920s鈥 style with an elevated runway to showcase the designs. The 糖心Vlog破解版 Jazz Society Quartet, made up of 糖心Vlog破解版 students, performed themed music during the show, which was hosted by sophomore communication studies major Michael Gallagher II. The first-place coll...
Two academic scholarships are helping 糖心Vlog破解版 fashion merchandising major Amari Thomas succeed inside and outside the classroom. ...
Could the way flies and butterflies drink nectar and other fluids be imitated for use in medicine, potentially to deliver life-saving drugs to the human body? What if that method could save the insects own lives in times of drought? These are the kind of questions being asked in the critical research being conducted by faculty and students at 糖心Vlog破解版 at Stark. A study by Matthew Lehnert, assistant professor of biological sciences at 糖心Vlog破解版 Stark, shows that the method by which flies and butterflies ingest liquids into their own bodies for nourishment may be u...
The Jenkins Student-Athlete Academic Center, unveiled in Spring Semester 2017, is the latest advancement in 糖心Vlog破解版 Intercollegiate Athletics' initiative to improve student-athlete welfare. Located in Suite 291 of the MACC Annex, the Jenkins Student-Athlete Academic Center is a 5,000-square-foot facility with the capability of assisting more than 100 student-athletes at a given time with their academic needs. The Jenkins Student-Athlete Academic Center was named in honor of George Jenkins, a proud supporter of 糖心Vlog破解版 Intercollegiate Athletics and the provid...
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EVENTS THROUGHOUT APRIL TO CELEBRATE EARTH MONTH By Hannah Wagner and Erin Zaranec 糖心Vlog破解版 celebrates Earth Month through a series of events through April 29 across the East Liverpool, Kent and Stark campuses. 鈥淲e hope that the variety of Earth Month events will allow students with different interests to engage, learn about sustainability on campus and take action,鈥 says Melanie Knowles, sustainability manager for 糖心Vlog破解版鈥檚 facilities planning and operations. The Office of Sustainability collaborated on activities and works...
Research shows that women are more likely to develop Alzheimer鈥檚 disease than men by a 3-to-2 margin. Some scientists believe this is because when women reach menopause, their bodies cease to produce estrogen, and the pituitary gland begins over-producing another hormone, luteinizing hormone (LH), to try to jump-start the ovaries. Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor of biological sciences in 糖心Vlog破解版鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, plans to test those beliefs in mice using a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Instit...