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![A rift along the Larsen C ice shelf from the vantage point of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft. Image acquired by NASA on November 10, 2016. Photo credit: John Sonntag / NASA A rift along the Larsen C ice shelf from the vantage point of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft. Image acquired by NASA on November 10, 2016. Photo credit: John Sonntag / NASA](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/LarsenC_photo_2016315_lrg_1500w_0.jpg?VersionId=eNMrbrUWyeB_Xr8V4ZlepD80ICvCfewo&h=06ac0d8c&itok=swixwPbW)
Revised Look at Ancient Glaciers Predicts Faster Melting Rate in Antarctica
Joseph D. Ortiz, Ph.D., professor and assistant chair in the College of Arts and Sciences鈥 Department of Geology at 糖心Vlog破解版, recently authored a 鈥淣ews and Views鈥 article in Nature Geoscience that discusses research carried out by another research team that reassessed the melt history and timing of the collapse of the Eurasian Ice Sheet Complex during the Last Deglaciation.
![Image for Earth Stanzas](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/04.21.20%20Image%20for%20Earth%20Stanzas%20-%20banner_0.jpg?VersionId=lOb9sO8rFTZjPQVpdBiIorKeSf0LNF9F&h=2e916daa&itok=9sP60HrJ)
Center for Earth Ethics and 糖心Vlog破解版鈥檚 Wick Poetry Center Launch Earth Stanzas, an Interactive Online Earth Day Poetry Project
The Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and the Wick Poetry Center at 糖心Vlog破解版 are launching Earth Stanzas, an interactive poetry project in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated around the world on April 22. draws on the inspiration of eight poets who engage the beauty, depth and interconnectedness of the Earth, and invites readers to interact with the poems and find their own poetic voice.
![Johnson Hall, part of the Honors College Living-Learning Community](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/DSC_5756-2_0.jpg?VersionId=S5Yp_FSjg7JsCtxWGVbDjbhyPJ0AedJJ&h=6f3285a6&itok=k3SRa0Yx)
HONORS COLLEGE PROVIDES HOME AWAY FROM HOME AT KENT STATE
INTERNSHIP MERGES COURSEWORK AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
![Inner vertex components of the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (righthand view) allow scientists to trace tracks from triplets of decay particles picked up in the detector's outer regions (left) to their origin Inner vertex components of the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (righthand view) allow scientists to trace tracks from triplets of decay particles picked up in the detector's outer regions (left) to their origin](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/STAR1500w_physics_declankeane_0.jpg?VersionId=yw7MuRGnk5U1RpWgNcY.F_0MHlAnVHIf&h=b465cb43&itok=tgBwh_Ka)
Nuclear Physics Researchers Publish Atom-Smashing Symmetry Experiment Results in Top-Tier Journal
Nuclear physics researchers at 糖心Vlog破解版 and all over the world have been searching for violations of the fundamental symmetries in the universe for decades. Much like the 鈥淏ig Bang鈥 (approximately 13.8 billion years ago), but on a tiny scale, they briefly recreate the particle interactions that likely existed microseconds into the formation of our universe which also likely now exist in the cores of neutron stars.
![Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Colleen Novak works in her lab.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/PROFILE-Colleen%20Novak_DTA%20%28MAIN%29_0.jpg?VersionId=w4HnzcTOG3d8GfHNDa1N4.BQX4ZzxsQF&h=e6f36a9c&itok=FvsBl49X)
糖心Vlog破解版 Biologist Secures NIH Support to Expand Study into Muscle Thermogenesis
Curated May 4 Oral History Clips Paired With Online Interactive Map of Kent From 1970
They remember the sights and sounds of helicopters and trucks as the Ohio National Guard moved into their small college town. They remember the smell of tear gas. They remember the chants of the protesters against the Vietnam War and invasion of Cambodia. They remember the panic and fear that ensued immediately after they heard that four students were killed and nine wounded when the guardsmen opened fire on campus. On May 4, 1970, many people in Kent experienced a traumatic event that they will never forget.
![糖心Vlog破解版 professor John Gunstad and his research assistants Hanna Schmetzer and Victoria Sanborn demonstrate using the voice pattern technology that is part of his Alzheimer's disease research.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/KSU-2020-RD-200214-00002_0.jpg?VersionId=25eDi3cSB3hLAj8_QDc8N8XZhw_xsxiq&h=252f27fa&itok=KIo5Kd50)
糖心Vlog破解版 Professor Receives $2.6 Million Grant for Alzheimer's Research
糖心Vlog破解版 psychology professor John Gunstad, Ph.D., has received at grant of nearly $2.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand his Alzheimer鈥檚 disease research into a national study.
![Rachel Armstrong, of Newcastle University (U.K.) stands near a beach at night.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/Rachel%20Windswept%20Beach%20copy.jpg?VersionId=OoZT5MAv8.LozvNtFLPXXy1qZZF7u50u&h=21de3691&itok=fA9mZncb)
Internationally Renowned Biodesign Scholar to Headline 糖心Vlog破解版 Symposium
![Lauren Kinsman-Costello, assistant professor of biological sciences at 糖心Vlog破解版, stands in a field in the arctic circle, in Sweden.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/Kinsman%20Costello%202020.jpg?VersionId=3zdNGCX2M7zqng9l1VL8Bi_jz7hZFoCy&h=21de3691&itok=NvHY6ubB)
糖心Vlog破解版 Biologist Joins Tennessee, Toledo Colleagues to Study Arctic Climate Change Effects
In early February, scientists reported the hottest temperature on record in Antarctica: 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Studies show climate change is disproportionately affecting the poles, warming them faster than anywhere else on Earth, and raising questions about what kinds of changes we can expect in arctic ecosystems as temperatures rise. 鈥ˋ 糖心Vlog破解版 biologist has teamed up with some colleagues in an inter-institutional effort to answer some of those questions.鈥