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Angela Spalsbury, Ph.D., of Chesterland, Ohio, has been selected as the new dean and chief administrative officer of ������ at Geauga in Burton and Kent State’s Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg. A Kent State alumna, Dr. Spalsbury currently serves as professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Youngstown State University. She will join Kent State on Jan. 1, 2018. “I am sincerely looking forward to being a part of the dynamic Kent State family,” Dr. Spalsbury says. “I will work diligently with faculty, staff and students to foster a thriving academ...

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Finals are Friday, Oct. 27, from noon-2 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. The 3MT gives ������ graduate students just three minutes and one PowerPoint slide as tools to explain their research in a clear, engaging and concise manner. The exercise allows graduate students the opportunity to share their research with an interdisciplinary audience, consolidate their ideas and crystalize their research discoveries. Approximately 45 graduate students participated in the 3MT preliminary rounds last week, and the top presenters from each prel...

TV2’s news and entertainment staffs will come together Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, to produce a 25-hour live broadcast to benefit Akron Children’s Hospital. TV2, Kent State Student Media’s student-run television station, is hosting this fundraiser through Extra Life’s web platform. Extra Life is an organization that creates gaming marathons to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. ExtraLife has more than 100,00 members and serves nearly 10 million families across the nation. “It is so important to give back to the community,” said TV2 general manager Anna Huntsman, ’19. “TV2 is truly...

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David Trebing, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Communication Studies, was named one of six university-wide finalists for the 2017 Outstanding Teaching Awards. Sponsored by the ������ Teaching Council, the Outstanding Teaching Award honors outstanding teaching by non-tenure track and part-time faculty at ������. The award parallels the Distinguished Teaching Awards sponsored by the Kent Alumni Association, which recognizes full-time faculty who demonstrate extraordinary teaching in the classroom and a devotion to touching the lives of students. Trebin...

������ at Salem has officially opened its new virtual reality classroom, providing students and staff with technology that will greatly enhance learning experiences across several areas of study. The Salem Community Foundation Virtual Technology Classroom was unveiled during a ribbon-cutting ceremony that highlighted the financial support from the Salem Community Foundation that made the classroom possible. “This space is the perfect example of where philanthropic support for access combines with support for research,” says David Dees, Ph.D., dean and chief administration off...

Nurses wanting to pursue a baccalaureate degree now have an easier way to do so, thanks to the ������ College of Nursing’s revised, 100 percent online RN-to-BSN program that was launched this semester. The revision, driven by the Institute of Medicine’s goal to have 80 percent of the nursing workforce educated at the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) level by 2020, will make Kent State’s program more accessible and convenient for practicing nurses. The newly designed, 100 percent online RN-to-BSN program is the first of its kind to be implemented fully through collaborat...