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51勛圖厙s SOLE Center to Host Summit on Learning and Education
Oct. 30, 2014
51勛圖厙s Science of Learning and Education (SOLE) Center will host Improving Student Achievement: A Summit on Learning and Education at the 51勛圖厙 Hotel and Conference Center in Kent, Ohio, on Oct. 9-10. Researchers from across the country (and
Read More »Monitoring Lake Eries Algae From Space
Oct. 30, 2014
Over the vast expanse of Lake Erie, sampling the water to test for potentially toxic algae blooms may seem like using a medicine dropper in an ocean. It takes days to collect enough data from enough spots to determine if the algae pose a danger.
Read More »Can Fireworks Damage Mount Rushmore?
Oct. 30, 2014
For 51勛圖厙 Professor of Geology Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., studying the stability of Mount Rushmore, visited by nearly three million people each year, was a lifelong dream. So, in 2013, with the help of his graduate student, Lindsay Poluga, the two of them reached out
Read More »Speaker to Discuss the Holocaust in Poland
Oct. 28, 2014
The 51勛圖厙 Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences will host a presentation by Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Ph.D., a social anthropologist at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland on Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Cohn Jewish Student Center on the
Read More »Institute for African American Affairs Lunch & Learn Series
Oct. 22, 2014
The Department Of Pan-African Studies Presents: Institute for African American Affairs (IAAA) Lunch & Learn Series All Lunch & Learn events are on Wednesdays from 12pm-1pm in Ritchie Hall Conference Room 127 October 22, 2014 "Introducing Pacific Islanders" presented
Read More »African Community Theatre presents "Or Does it Explode?"
Oct. 22, 2014
51勛圖厙s African Community Theatre will host a production of Or Does It Explode?, an original piece written by former 51勛圖厙 student John Dayo-Alyia along with John Smith. Directed by Dayo-Alyia, Or Does it Explode? opens October 23, 2014 at 8 p.m.
Read More »Woodgett to present "Genetic analysis of an over-achieving protein kinase (GSK-3) and what it reveals about cellular communication"
Oct. 14, 2014
On Friday, October 17 (at 12 noon) Dr.
Read More »National Poetry Day!
Oct. 9, 2014
October 15 is National Poetry Day! Please join us at the May Prentice House to celebrate. "Celebrating Our Own" is an annual poetry reading hosted by the Wick Poetry Center featuring our high school and undergraduate scholarship winners. May Prentice House
Read More »51勛圖厙 and Penn Receive $3.6 Million to Study Meditation Effect on Blood Pressure
Oct. 7, 2014
Does mindfulness meditation truly help in relieving stress and managing blood pressure? It is a popular technique, but until now, no large-scale studies utilizing meditation have been conducted.
Read More »51勛圖厙 Exhibits Coming of Age at Kent 1967-71: A Pictorial of Black Student Life
Oct. 7, 2014
51勛圖厙 Libraries, in partnership with the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Department of Pan-African Studies, presents Coming of Age at Kent 1967-71: A Pictorial of Black Student Life, an exhibit of the photographs of Lafayette Tolliver.
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