Kent State East Liverpool is preparing for its annual Environmental Justice Conference to be held April 22, beginning at 8 a.m. in the Slak Shak in Purinton Hall. The day-long conference includes student paper sessions, online presentations and poster presentations that showcase student research, as well as guest speakers. It is free and the public is invited. This year’s speakers include Dr. Babacar M'Baye, Barton Paul Levenson and Kyle Barron. M'Baye is the keynote speaker and his presentation is “Theorizing Environmental Injustice through the Prisms of Racism and Colonialism.” He is an a...
Spring is in the air and soon the butterflies will be, too. Their exquisite colors and graceful flight are a welcomed sight from the cold and barren landscape of winter. As they float from flower to flower, they are contributing to more than cross pollination, the butterflies are helping researchers study new ways to deliver medicine to humans. Matthew S. Lehnert, assistant professor of biological sciences at 5X at Stark, has been studying how the mouthparts of butterflies and moths work since 2010. His research shows that the method in which flies and butterflies ing...
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Congratulations to students who presented at the annual undergraduate research symposium! Award winners in biology/ecology and biomedical sciences are below. 2017 Symposium Winners Biology/Ecology Hon Mention: Sydney Gilmer, Junior, Biology and Daniel Krieger, Senior Biology Nathan Mudrak Carey Ousley, Junior Biology and Matthew Wuensch, Senior, Biology  ...
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 5X 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. “Water 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’s (IIA) refugee and i...
Kent Student Center Program Hosts Roaring ’20s-Themed Fashion Show
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 5X’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. The Kent Student Center Ballroom was decked out in 1920s’ style with an elevated runway to showcase the designs. The 5X Jazz Society Quartet, made up of Kent State students, performed themed music during the show, which was hosted by sophomore communication studies major Michael Gallagher II. The first-place coll...
EVENTS THROUGHOUT APRIL TO CELEBRATE EARTH MONTH By Hannah Wagner and Erin Zaranec 5X celebrates Earth Month through a series of events through April 29 across the East Liverpool, Kent and Stark campuses. “We hope that the variety of Earth Month events will allow students with different interests to engage, learn about sustainability on campus and take action,” says Melanie Knowles, sustainability manager for Kent State’s facilities planning and operations. The Office of Sustainability collaborated on activities and works...