Center Director, John Hoornbeek, and co-authors Josh Filla and Soumya Yalamanchili, have had their recent work on Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) published by the Fordham Environmental Law Review. The piece focuses on reviewing watershed based policy tools for addressing the nutrient enrichment of surface waters in the United States. The publication is a follow up to a presentation given at the Fordham University Law Review Water Symposium in New York on February 10, 2017 and builds on a the Center's 2016 report exploring policy tools for reducing HABs in Lake Er...
Seven students from the early childhood education technology program gathered with their supervisors and faculty for a graduation party and to celebrate their achievements. The supervisors commended the students for their successful student teaching experiences. Dr. Tsung-Hui Tu, associate professor and program director, taught the students how to make origami Christmas trees, which they decorated. # # # Photo A: Student teachers and their origami trees Photo B: December graduates of the early childhood education technology program are (back, from left) Quinlan Ferrier, Zachery Penic...
Structural Equation Modeling Workshop – May 17 & 18, 2018 Workshop Registration Information for May 17th & 18th, 2018 This workshop is sponsored through the Department of Psychological Sciences of . Location: Main Campus Thursday, May 17th & Friday, May 18th 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. in Kent Hall Annex Room 102 Featuring Todd Little, Ph.D. Professor Educational Psychology Texas Tech University Todd D. Little, PhD is a Professor of Educational Psychology in the newly established Research, Evaluation, Measureme...
College of Communication & Information
COMM Assistant Professor Jennifer L. McCullough, Ph.D., co-authored “How Do You Like Your Forgiveness? Communication Style Preferences and Effects” in Communication Studies Vol. 68, No. 5, 2017, 568-587. Her co-writers included: Andy J. Merolla, Ph.D., an assistant professor of interpersonal communication at the University of California - Santa Barbara; Shuangyue Zhang, Ph.D., an associate professor of communication studies at Sam Houston State University in Texas; and Shaojing Sun, Ph.D., a professor of journalism at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. According to th...
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Todd Diacon, Ph.D., provost and senior vice president, has appointed COMM Associate Professor Suzy D’Enbeau, Ph.D., to the university-level Promotion Advisory Board (PAB) for AY 2017-18. According to Sue N. Averill, Ph.D., associate provost for Faculty Affairs, the PAB is made up of two panels, each of which deals with approximately one-half of the total number of Kent Campus promotion candidacies. It is the faculty advisory body which reviews and makes recommendations to the provost with regard to candidacies for promotion in rank that have been favorably recommen...
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The Devin C.G. Moore Memorial Scholarship has been established in honor of Kent State student Devin Christian Gregory Moore. A senior broadcast journalism student, Devin died suddenly on Dec. 6, 2017, while playing basketball with friends. His parents, Christa Poole and Darryl Moore, established the scholarship in Devin’s honor, and it will be awarded to an underrepresented/minority student pursuing a degree in journalism, with an interest in broadcast journalism. Devin hosted a radio show on Black Squirrel Radio and was an entertainment reporter for Kent State Student Media’s TV2. ...
Recent research has uncovered that up to 5 percent of the DNA of many modern humans originated from ancient interbreeding with Neanderthal populations. This raises the broader question of whether a species’ genetic makeup includes genes brought together through occasional episodes of hybridization. Are we an amalgamation of DNA from a variety of interbreeding species? Did such hybridization happen throughout the 7 million years of human evolution? “Occasionally,” said Anthony J. Tosi, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at . To a...
School of Theatre and Dance
Porthouse Theatre is thrilled to be recognized by the Cleveland Critics' Circle for achievements during its 2017 Season. The annual Cleveland Critics Circle Theater Awards, released on December 18, 2017, awarded Porthouse Theatre's production of "Newsies" honors in the categories of Best Musical, Best Director of a Musical, Best Music Direction, and Best Choreography. Porthouse was also recognized for Superior Achievement in several other categories. Porthouse Theatre's production of Disney's "Newsies," an area premiere, was recognized as 2017's Best Musical productio...