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 Dear alumni and friends,Earlier this month, we held the seventh annual Spirit of Women in Business Conference. The event was once again a great success, with more than 250 professional women and men in attendance and a dynamic lineup of speakers and panelists featured throughout the day. Rita McGrath, Ph.D., professor at Columbia University's Business School and one of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation, delivered a thought-provoking keynote on the topic of innovation to kick off the event.We were also pleased to honor Kent State alumnus and College of Busin...

Anne Jefferson, Ph.D., associate professor of geology at ������’s College of Arts and Sciences, is speaking out about White House budget proposals that could impact Lake Erie and the surrounding areas. Jefferson is passionate about finding solutions to growing environmental problems. The core of her research focuses on studying stormwater flooding and pollution.   “Like other Ohio scientists, my ability to do this research depends, in large part, on support from federal agencies,” Jefferson wrote in an editorial in The Plain Dealer. Jefferson is concerned that...

Beginning July 1, ������ will become smoke-free and tobacco-free, in accordance with university policy 5-21. The new policy aligns with the university’s healthy campus initiative, Kent State of Wellness. While most people know the health benefits gained from quitting smoking, they may be unaware of the significant financial benefits.   According to a USA Today article, smoking costs the average smoker at least $1.1 million over the course of a life. In Ohio, that number is closer to $1.4 million. This number comes from adding the cost of purchasing one pack a day for ...

A low socioeconomic status might not be the underlying cause of infant mortality and low birth weight among African American babies. Instead, researchers are looking at the role stress plays. Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in ������’s College of Arts and Sciences, explains how racism causes stress, which in turns causes the body to over produce stress hormones, affecting mother and baby. Learn more from WEWS-TV  ...

The ������ Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, May 31. The Board is scheduled to convene at 1:30 p.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of University Library on the Kent Campus. Trustees will retire into executive session from 7:45-9 a.m. in the Urban Conference Room to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.”  Board committees will meet as follows: Committee of the Whole – 9:15-10:30 a.m. in the Urban Conference Room. Academic Excellence...