Several Kent State University chemical physics graduates
who studied at the Liquid Crystal Institute are part of the
display team at Apple Inc. Pictured, from left to right, are
William Liu, Ph.D. '01; Ming Xu, Ph.D. '00; Vincent Gu,
Ph.D. '09; Cheng Chen, Ph.D. '06; and Mike Dorjgotov,
Ph.D. '10.

The Glenn H. Brown Liquid Crystal Institute^® and the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University will host a 50th anniversary celebration on Sept. 25, starting at 10 a.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva on the Kent Campus.

Kent State President Beverly Warren, Ph.D., and James Blank, Ph.D., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will give opening remarks, which will be followed by tributes to former directors Glenn Brown, Ph.D., Bill Doane, Ph.D., John West, Ph.D., and Oleg Lavrentovich, Ph.D. At 11:30 a.m., Kent State alumnus Sung Tae Shin, Ph.D. ’94, physics, professor at Kyunghee University and retired vice president of Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display Co., will present "The Historic Impact of Liquid Crystals to Industry." A lunch buffet and tours of the institute will follow from noon until 2:30 p.m.

Blank will present "The Future of Liquid Crystals" at 2:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. Other afternoon speakers include Achin Bhowmik, Ph.D., vice president and general manager of Perceptual Computing Group, Intel Corporation; Kent State alumnus Cheng Chen, Ph.D. ’06, chemical physics, director, Panel, Process and Optics Engineering at Apple Inc.; Shin; and Noel Clark, Ph.D., professor of physics at the University of Colorado. Hiroshi Yokoyama, Ph.D., director of the Liquid Crystal Institute, will provide the closing remarks at 4 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public, but online registration is required by Sept. 24 at 5 p.m. at www.kent.edu/lci/50.

For more information about Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute, visit www.kent.edu/lci.