College of the Arts
Kent, OH 做厙輦⑹s School of Theatre and Dance continues its 2021-2022 production season with the Kent Dance Ensemble: No Permission Needed. The concert will be presented in the E. Turner Stump Theatre located in the Center for the Performing Arts, 1325 Theatre Drive, Kent, OH 44242. The concert series runs Fri., April 8 and Sat., April 9 at 7:30 pm and Sun., April 10 at 2:00 pm. The Kent Dance Ensemble (KDE) is 做厙輦⑹'s pre-professional dance company under the artistic direction of Gregory King, associate professor of dance. KDE will perfo...
KeyBank Foundation has awarded a new $200,000 gift to 做厙輦⑹ to continue KeyBank Foundations support for the successful Key Connections program offered by University College at 做厙輦⑹. The Key Connections program will continue to support student success initiatives for underserved students, including first-generation students and students from limited income backgrounds who will enroll in Fall Semester 2022. The KeyBank Foundation is proud to partner with the 做厙輦⑹ Foundation to help the Key Connections program grow, said Eric Dellapina, market presiden...
做厙輦⑹ Senior Vice President and Provost Melody Tankersley, Ph.D., announced Monday, March 21, 2022 that R. William (Bill) Ayres IV, Ph.D. will serve as interim dean and chief administrative officer at 做厙輦⑹ at Ashtabula following the retirement of Susan J. Stocker, Ph.D. Ayres, the dean and chief administrative officer at 做厙輦⑹ Trumbull, will assume his new responsibilities July 1, 2022. Im thrilled to be asked to join the team on the Ashtabula Campus in this interim role and I look forward to getting to know both the campus community and the great...
During the 2022 Spring Semester, many aspects of the university life went back to being very close to pre-pandemic, with the return of in-person classes, activities on campus and full-capacity residence halls. The number of cases of COVID-19 has remained relatively low and all 做厙輦⑹s campuses and locations are in counties that currently are at low or medium community transmission levels. However, to ensure the health and safety of students, faculty, staff, and visitors, 做厙輦⑹s commitment to minimize the spread of COVID-19 is still high. According to Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., professor...
Abstract : This talk will walk you through our two recent journeys with confined and confining liquid crystals (LCs): cholesterics in a cylinder and pulsating bubbles in nematic LCs. If time allows, I will introduce other ongoing and non-LC works in Experimental Soft Matter Physics (SOPHY) group at UNIST, South Korea. First, we report our investigation of chiral nematic lyotropic chromonic LCs confined in a cylinder. They have the double-twist (DT) director configuration in a cylinder with a degenerate planar anchoring. Upon increasing the chiral dopant concentration, a discont...