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![Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University’s Center for Applied Conflict Management is transforming into a new School of Peace and Conflict Studies. Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University’s Center for Applied Conflict Management is transforming into a new School of Peace and Conflict Studies.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/school-of-peace2.jpg?VersionId=4baNNflekq98Wa8.WFwYlDP.u1AXkDmX)
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University’s Center for Applied Conflict Management is transforming into a new School of Peace and Conflict Studies this month.
Several Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University professors in the College of Arts and Sciences have been selected to receive Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). REU grants are designed to provide faculty with funding to create research…
Dementia affects one-third of all people older than 65 years in the United States. The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive, irreversible brain disease that results in impaired cognitive functioning and other behavioral changes. Humans are…
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![A Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« entrepreneur creates a website and an upcoming app that connects renters to landlords. A Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« entrepreneur creates a website and an upcoming app that connects renters to landlords.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/rental%20app2.jpg?VersionId=sqGBrza9I_SOPU0pwFOYAWqHNuCYYj3t)
A Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« entrepreneur creates a website and an upcoming app that connects renters to landlords.
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![Matthew Minichillo runs 200 miles in the MS Run the US Relay. Matthew Minichillo runs 200 miles in the MS Run the US Relay.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/MS-relay-ka.jpg?VersionId=UEOFSgO2jTcDOVGNhcsdJKoydX_QiKEO)
A Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University assistant dean runs 200 miles for his daughter and all other families touched by multiple sclerosis.
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![Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University Assistant Professor Jennifer Mapes, Ph.D., poses beside a map kiosk in downtown Kent that she helped to create.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/Mapes.jpg?VersionId=gHVKI_uKzCFUH72ZZOrr3QJQza9hblnx)
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University Assistant Professor Jennifer Mapes, Ph.D., was honored with the Volunteer of the Year award by Main Street Kent during the organization’s annu
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![David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University, reads a poem during the River of Words poetry reading in the center’s Poetry Park.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/07.07.17%20Photo%20from%20Wick%20Poetry%20Center.jpg?VersionId=ucQAcbfpU.8EhowIdpCgYXhZArq4MRyu)
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îȫ’s Wick Poetry Center to benefit from grant
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![Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger examines new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/07.05.17%20Photo%201%20-%20Light-driven%20oscillating%20film.jpg?VersionId=1WcofWE9UmHL7KvwJf2tFNnjeXn1y.bc)
Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University in Ohio have developed a new material that can undulate and therefore propel itself forward under the influence of light. To achieve this, the scientists clamp a strip of this polymer…
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![Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« and MRRI will conduct studies to advance treatments for aphasia. Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« and MRRI will conduct studies to advance treatments for aphasia.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/Brain.jpg)
When someone suffers a stroke, traumatic brain injury, or brain tumor, one of the common symptoms is aphasia, a disorder that arises from damage to portions of the brain, usually the left side, that are responsible for language. It impairs the expression and understanding of…
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![Todd Diacon, Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îȫ’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, places the President’s Medal on Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy as Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« President Beverly Warren watches.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/BOB_1477---USE-ON-HOME-PAGE%28web%29.jpg?VersionId=s0luqBDGTTi9Ap_PvPyxJt8xRbG2ul1d)
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., received the President's Medal from President Beverly Warren during the One University Commencement Ceremony on May 13 in Dix Stadium. The President’s Medal is the highest…