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Metin I. Eren, director of archaeology and an assistant professor of anthropology in ÂÌñÉç’s College of Arts and Sciences, prepares to fire a replica arrowhead at a special lab at the university's Kent Campus.

ÂÌñÉçArchaeologist Uses National Science Foundation Grant to Recreate, Test Ancient Weapons

Kent State professor uses a $215,000 National Science Foundation grant to analyze weapons technology dating back 11,000 to 12,000 years.

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Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor in Kent State’s Department of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.

ÂÌñÉçBiologist Awarded $1.8 Million to Advance Research of Alzheimer’s in Women

Kent State's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's. 

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ÂÌñÉçUses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence

ÂÌñÉçGeographers Make Maps to Help Study Youth Violence

ÂÌñÉç researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.

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ÂÌñÉçprofessor explains how good cells can turn bad.

ÂÌñÉçChemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

A ÂÌñÉçprofessor, his graduate students and researchers from Kyoto University help offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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ÂÌñÉçChemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017.

These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it.

An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by ÂÌñÉç researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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ÂÌñÉçgeology professor is concerned about losing valuable government databases

ÂÌñÉçProfessor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data

ÂÌñÉçProfessor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.

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Melissa Zullo (left), associate professor of epidemiology in Kent State’s College of Public Health, works with a Ph.D. student.

ÂÌñÉçEpidemiologist Studies Best Practices for Helping Cardiac and Respiratory Patients Heal

ÂÌñÉç scholar Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., is all heart, an academic who lives and breathes research, almost literally. Zullo, an associate professor of epidemiology in Kent State’s College of Public Health, has spent a significant portion of her professional and academic career studying th…

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Cancer Survivors and Depression: ÂÌñÉçProfessor Studies Link

A new study by a ÂÌñÉçresearcher finds that depression in some cancer survivors is linked to both care and financial concerns.

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ÂÌñÉçResearchers to Study the Effects of Probiotics on Brain Health

University partners with i-Health and Stow-Glen Retirement Village ÂÌñÉç, in partnership with the Stow-Glen Retirement Village in Stow, Ohio, recently received an industry-funded grant of $430,000 from i-Health Inc., a subsidiary of DSM Nutritional Products, to examine whether takin…

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ÂÌñÉçStudents to Collaborate With Kyoto University Researchers

ÂÌñÉç students will travel to Japan for collaborative research with the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, studying evolutionary genetic analysis, Alzheimer’s disease and aggressive behavior.      

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