Research & Science

IN A FLASH: Earth Month Wrap Up
ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ celebrated Earth Month with an exceptionally full schedule of events, not the least of which were the activities on campus surrounding the total solar eclipse!

Twinning and Winning: Brothers Begin First Year as Rising Juniors
The first thing you will learn about brothers Will and Ray Maynard is that they are twins – not identical in looks, but in nearly all other aspects.

Form and Function Merge in Creating Wearable Technology
Creating e-textiles – electronic textiles that can be used to integrate wearable technology into clothing that is comfortable and practical – is the topic of a hands-on, maker workshop and a lecture in ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æâ€™s Design Innovation (DI) Hub in collaboration with ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æâ€™s School of Fashion.

Form and Function Merge in Creating Wearable Technology
Creating e-textiles – electronic textiles that can be used to integrate wearable technology into clothing that is comfortable and practical – is the topic of a hands-on, maker workshop and a lecture in ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æâ€™s Design Innovation (DI) Hub in collaboration with ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æâ€™s School of Fashion.

Poetry in Motion: Performance Links Movement, Creativity and Verse
ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æâ€™s School of Theatre and Dance, Wick Poetry Center and Brain Health Research Institute joined forces for an Oct. 1 dance performance that set poetry to motion.

IN A FLASH: Doing It For The Ducks
The wetlands near ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ's Kent Campus are a great location for studying wildlife. Researchers visited recently to install nesting boxes for ducks.

Brain Food: October Ushers in a Month of Brain Health Research Institute Events
ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æâ€™s Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI) and Wick Poetry Center are joining forces with the School of Theatre and Dance for a performance of poetry that will celebrate the potential of human creativity.

Faculty Fellow Develops Digital Twin Technology
David E. Silva participated in The John and Fonda Elliot Design Innovation Faculty Fellows Program, a six-week intensive fellowship with the Design Innovation Initiative that ran through July 11th. The program embodies DI's core mission of fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, connecting design, innovation and technology while serving as an incubator for cross-university projects.

Stark Faculty Member Recognized for AI, Computer Science Research
Deepshikha Bhati has reached several milestones in her short career as an educator and researcher, all of which highlights her dedication and passion for sharing her expertise with others. She is a computer science lecturer on the ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ Stark campus, with a keen interest in artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Making Self-Driving Cars Easier to Trust
When School of Visual Communication Design professor Hadi Rahmati met Computer Science assistant professor Raiful Hasan at ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ's new faculty orientation in 2023, their conversation about their respective research interests led to an important project. They're working together to solve a big problem: how can self-driving cars communicate better with pedestrians?