College of Arts and Sciences
![Todd Diacon, ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, places the President’s Medal on Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy as ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ President Beverly Warren watches.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/BOB_1477---USE-ON-HOME-PAGE%28web%29.jpg?VersionId=ccSPwOZr_k_WI.sF2reh_FIQ9g_q7huR&h=ec98a0f6&itok=7v0KOxCL)
Educator, pioneering scientist and visionary Owen Lovejoy receives the highest ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ honor.
![A student stands vigil on the spot where one of four students was shot on May 4, 1970.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/B0B_6379.jpg?VersionId=5EXyKV0wmYX_cm9OkOqZaf0QdlC.uSDV&h=e6f36a9c&itok=e-qYMXLO)
![Keynote speaker Donald Miller](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/DSC_0276_small.jpg?VersionId=t6ryuNGUJpS6WRG104ZibeLvA6Xj1qDP&h=16a6ccf5&itok=YG-K7Ncn)
![David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ, guides a poetry workshop. Hassler and other Wick Poetry Center staff will lead March for Science participants in a poetry-writing exercise.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/Photo-of-David-Hassler---USE-ON-HOME-PAGE.jpg?VersionId=CvXkBmYotuyGlF.OJD30xh1ks.Wnl8pH&h=ec98a0f6&itok=pENkhy_b)
At the inaugural , a global demonstration centered in Washington, D.C., a special edition of the Wick Poetry Center's Traveling Stanzas titled Science Stanzas will provide an opportunity for participants to discover the intersection of expressive writing and scientific inquiry.
![Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor in ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ’s Department of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/DA64_047.jpg?VersionId=LaCU_h4a92rHPSv0kSm.pL6X1xFLs8iV&h=2a71c125&itok=87OGdy6Q)
¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ's Gemma Casadesus Smith is studying why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's.
![¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ Commencement](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/goodcall3-ka.jpg?VersionId=K1O9zfETZD41JA2DurFEA3B4LO8K3wW4&h=bde28bee&itok=y0fZPLmi)
GoodCall talked with professors around the country about the use of liberal arts degrees and the skills that students use as a springboard to the next step in their education and career path.
![¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ Uses Geospatial Technology to Map Violence](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/Earth-ka.jpg?VersionId=I729PaVYkVbTjhc3QvniTXdVTV9XvzRL&h=bde28bee&itok=vQ6QqoSy)
¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ researchers use geospatial technology to study youth violence in Akron, Ohio.