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Department of Physics

Veronica Dexheimer

New Collaboration to Provide Real-Time Data Exchanges for Astrophysicists

What happens when two neutron stars collide? What extreme densities and temperatures are reached? What new states of matter exist within the core of a neutron star? One Kent State College of Arts and Sciences theoretical astrophysicist, Veronica Dexheimer, associate professor in the Department of Physics, is diving headfirst into these questions as a co-principal investigator collaborating with her peers at multiple institutions on a recently funded cyberinfrastucture research grant project.

Tags: Research & Science, Veronica Dexheimer, Department of Physics, Center for Nuclear Research, College of Arts and Sciences, Neutron Star Collision, Astrophysics, Research and Science, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, National Science Foundation, collaboration, Open-source, cyberinfrastructure, muses, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Houston

College of Arts & Sciences

Jacob Grant (pictured third from left) pictured with the rocket built by the Kent State high powered rocket team.

Third Generation Honors College Student Earns Full Ride to Georgia Institute of Technology For Graduate Program

Jacob Grant, Kent State University student, is a senior aerospace engineering major with a minor in physics. Grant graduated from Edison High School in Milan, OH in 2017. After a late medical disqualification from the Air Force Academy, he chose to attend Kent State University. Grant is a third generation Kent State University Honors College student. His grandmother studied Spanish at Kent State and his mother studied education. Both were members of the Honors College.

Tags: College of Aeronautics and Engineering, Physics, Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, undergraduate research

Honors College

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Kent State Receives More Than $3 Million In Grants From National Science Foundation

Kent State University has recently received a flurry of grants totaling more than $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which will support research and innovation in a wide range of fields within the College of Arts and Sciences. 

Tags: Research & Science, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Brain Health Research Institute, Environmental Science and Design Research Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Computer Science, Department of Psychological Sciences, Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Healthy Communities Research Institute, Institutes and Initiatives

Division of Research & Economic Development

A gold–gold collision recorded by the Heavy Flavor Tracker (HFT) component of the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). (Image courtesy of STAR Collaboration)

Nuclear Physicist Tracks Rare Collided Particles to Better Understand Big Bang

Congratulations are in order for Sooraj Radhakrishnan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Kent State University College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Physics who performs research in experimental nuclear physics. His data analysis of some rare particles called “charm quarks” that may have existed in the first microsecond of the Big Bang, the emerging point of our universe, was highlighted in a recent issue of the .

Tags: Research & Science, Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, Sooraj Radhakrishnan, Center for Nuclear Research, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Spyridon Margetis, Declan Keane, Research and Science, Space, STAR, RHIC

College of Arts & Sciences

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Kent State Physics Professor Elected as 2020 Fellow of Prestigious Scientific Society

Jonathan V. Selinger, professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar in Kent State University’s Department of Physics, in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

Tags: Research & Science, Jonathan V. Selinger, Department of Physics, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, Science, Research, Chemical Physics

Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

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Kent State Physics Professor Elected as 2020 Fellow of Prestigious Scientific Society

Jonathan V. Selinger, professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar in Kent State University’s Department of Physics, in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

Tags: Research & Science, Jonathan V. Selinger, Department of Physics, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, Science, Research, Chemical Physics, Institutes and Initiatives

College of Arts & Sciences

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Graduate Student Creates Smart Glass for Privacy and Heat Applications

Yingfei Jiang, a College of Arts and Science graduate student in the Chemical Physics program and the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University, and his advisor Deng-Ke Yang, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Physics, have invented the first ever dual-mode smart glass technology that can control both radiant energy flow (heat) and privacy through a tinted material.

Tags: Research & Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Chemical Physics, Department of Physics, AMLCI, Advance Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Yingfei Jiang, Deng-Ke Yang, Research and Science, Switchable Windows, Liquid Crystals, Smart Glass

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