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Faces, Places and Spaces of Research
Posted July 27, 2015Many members of the Kent State University community are involved in various types of research both on and off campus. e-Inside features photos of research activity by some members of the university community.
Pictured is Little Round Top at Gettysburg Battlefield,
Pennsylvania, submitted by Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D.,
assistant professor in the School of Library and Information
Science. As the head of the museum studies specialization,
she studies how people experience museum objects. This
site is the spot where one of her research participants, Phil,
described a numinous experience with a “museum” object.
Both the photograph and the tree were triggers of this
experience. Latham took this photo many years after Phil’s
encounter but wanted to document her own encounter of it
as well.
Kent State University graduate student Greta Cukrov
conducts research using optical polarizing microscopy
techniques in Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg,
Germany. Cukrov is a student in Kent State's Chemical
Physics Interdisciplinary Program, and does research with
Oleg Lavrentovich, Ph.D., at the Liquid Crystal Institute.
Daniela Popescu (middle), Ph.D., assistant professor,
Kent State University at Geauga, performs research in the
Department of Biological Sciences at the Kent Campus in
the laboratory of Ernest Freeman (first from left), Ph.D.,
associate professor, and Jennifer McDonough (second
from left), Ph.D., assistant professor. Kent State student
Alyx Weaver and alumnus James Gadd (both on the
right) also are pictured. Popescu was awarded a $44,000
pilot grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to
study the role of vitamin K in remyelination.
Participants in the Program for Research on Anxiety
Disorders among African Americans (PRADAA) Lab pose
for a photo. The PRADAA Lab is located within Kent State’s
Department of Psychological Sciences, and its members
consist of the director Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., and
graduate assistants Dana Maurice Pugh and Martale
Davis. The PRADAA Lab focuses on community outreach
and is dedicated to underserved African American
populations throughout Northeast Ohio.
Martale Davis submitted this photo of PRADAA Lab
participants.
PRADAA Lab staff and participants watch a presentation
in this photo submitted by Martale Davies.