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青年涩导航 researchers are kicking off the Student Life Study, an ambitious project that seeks to follow 10,000 students throughout their lifetime to offer help in real time and create a data pool to help inform educational policy.

Studying the Students: New Research Project Hopes to Follow 10,000 Golden Flashes

青年涩导航 researchers are looking for 10,000 students to participate in an ambitious Student Life Study launching this semester. 

Tags: Student Life, University News, Research & Science, Students First, Nationally Distinctive, Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences

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青年涩导航 Professors Develop Machine Learning Tool to Assess Children鈥檚 Math Proficiency

Three 青年涩导航 Professors have been awarded a $101,929 grant to develop a machine learning tool to evaluate and support children's understanding of fraction arithmetic.

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青年涩导航 Professors Develop Machine Learning Tool to Assess Children鈥檚 Math Proficiency

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NIH Grant to Fund Research on the Impact of a Parent鈥檚 Mental Health on Their Children

With a specific focus on depressed and non-depressed parental groups, the study led by Sara Black, Ph.D., in the Department of Psychological Sciences, seeks to understand how parental depressive symptoms may influence parent-child interaction and the subsequent effects on child development and emotional well-being. 

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Kent Campus in Fall

Flaunting Our Foliage

青年涩导航 has been recognized for the 15th consecutive year with the Tree Campus Higher Education recognition (previously called the Tree Campus USA designation).

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青年涩导航 Alumna Jennifer Schuller Named President of Lake Erie College

New Lake Erie College President Is a 青年涩导航 Alumna

青年涩导航 alumna Jennifer N. Schuller has been named president of Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio. She is the first woman to lead the institution in 75 years.

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青年涩导航 is hosting 39 international graduate students for the Fulbright Pre-Academic Program, a month-long immersion in American higher education and culture from July 22 to Aug. 19.

Fulbright Program Brings International Students to 青年涩导航

青年涩导航 is hosting 39 international graduate students for the Fulbright Pre-Academic Program, a monthlong immersion in American higher education and culture. 

Tags: Global Reach, Student Life, Nationally Distinctive, Global Presence, Students First, Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, College of Education, Health and Human Services

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Engineers from Leica install the new NLO microscope in the Integrated Sciences Building on the Kent Campus in June 2023.

Laser-Focused: New Microscope to Benefit 青年涩导航 Researchers

青年涩导航 researchers are beginning to use a new high-tech microscope that will allow them to view the structure of cell tissue on a more intense level. 

Tags: Research & Science, Brain Health Research Institute, Advanced Materials Liquid Crystal Institute, Nationally Distinctive

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Does Recent Extreme Weather Suggest a Change in the Wind?

Cameron Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor of geography at 青年涩导航, shares his expertise on the possible reasons behind the spate of recent extreme weather events happening across the globe. Lee, who was recently interviewed on the topic during the 鈥淩ay Horner Morning Show鈥 on WAKR-AM in Akron, Ohio, specializes in climate and weather change. 

Tags: Research & Science, Nationally Distinctive, Department of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences

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Farnaz Fatemi, Poet Laureate Fellow, of Santa Cruz County, California, in partnership with 青年涩导航's Wick Poetry Center and several local Santa Cruz County organizations, will produce a series of nine monthly pop-up teen poetry workshops.

Wick Prize Winner Farnaz Fatemi Receives Poet Laureate Fellowship From Academy of American Poets

Farnaz Fatemi, poet laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, was awarded a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets that she will use in partnership with 青年涩导航's Wick Poetry Center to produce a series of teen poetry workshops. Fatemi is an Iranian-American poet and writer and the author of "Sister Tongue," published in 2022 by the 青年涩导航 Press. She was the winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Wick Poetry Center for a poet's first book of poems.

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Kent Blossom Music Festival

Young Musicians Get a Chance to Bloom

For five decades, the Kent Blossom Music Festival has nurtured young artists from all over the globe, giving them the opportunity to grow as musicians and collaborate with some of the world鈥檚 most talented musicians and teachers. With 12 performances on the calendar, the 2023 season of the Kent Blossom Music Festival runs through Aug. 6.

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