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We are happy to announce that associate professor Kara L. Robinson will now serve as the subject librarian for the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and its undergraduate programs in Gender and Sexuality, LGBT Studies, and Women’s Studies.   Kara currently serves as the subject librarian for a number of departments whose interests and resources intersect with those of the Center.  She is looking forward to working with your students and faculty to identify materials we already own that will support their research interests and to seek out and provide access to addit...

On Wednesday, May 10, a few days before Spring 2017 Commencement ceremonies, approximately 400 graduating international students and their friends and family gathered in the Kent Student Ballroom to celebrate their upcoming achievement during the annual International Graduate Student Reception. During the event, students shared congratulations about their upcoming rite-of-passage, traded selfies, enjoyed the food and refreshments provided and reflected on their long, yet all-too-short academic journey at ������. The graduates in attendance also received a commemorative stole lis...

  An in-depth report on voting rights and regulations by the Carnegie-Knight News21 Initiative, produced by students from ������ and 17 other universities, has received a top national award for student investigations. Investigative Reporters & Editors has named the Carnegie-Knight News21 “Voting Wars” project the recipient of the IRE Award for Student Reporting in the large university category. Headquartered at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, News21 is a multimedia reporting initiative established by the Carn...

������ will become a smoke-free, tobacco-free campus beginning July 1. The new policy is part of the university’s healthy campus initiative, Kent State of Wellness. For those desiring to quit, Kent State provides an abundance of cessation resources for students, faculty and staff to help them quit smoking. According to the American Lung Association, the first seven to 10 days are the toughest and most smokers who return to smoking do so within the first three months, so it is a vital time to support their efforts during that time. “As a university, we feel it’s part of ...

Are journalism schools teaching students about the psychological risks of covering traumatic stories? Can victims be harmed if reporters approach them the wrong way? These are a couple of the tough questions Gretchen Dworznik, assistant professor in Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC), asked in her paper, “Are we teaching trauma? A survey of accredited journalism schools in the U.S.” Dworznik recently presented her findings at the Broadcast Education Association conference in Las Vegas. The paper won first place in the open paper competition for the curriculum divi...

Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) is working to change the conversation about the millennial generation by collaborating with the National Millennial Community. Founded in 2015 by Bill Imada, Chairman and Chief Connectivity Officer of IW Group, Inc., the National Millennial Community hosts Executive Conversations and Think Tanks for millennials across the nation. By partnering with academic institutions across the country, the Community has developed a wide network of professions and industry influencers to engage with millennials. One academic institution fr...

Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Porthouse Theatre, ������’s outdoor, summer theatre located on the grounds of Blossom Music Center, will close its 49th season with the area premiere of "Disney's Newsies." Directed by producing artistic director Terri Kent, “Newsies” opens July 28 and runs through August 13. A preview performance will take place on July 27. Adapted from the Disney film of the same name, “Newsies” is the exhilarating tale of newsboy Jack Kelly who dreams of a better life far from selling newspapers on the streets of turn-of-the-century New York City. Whe...

Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Porthouse Theatre, ������’s outdoor, summer theatre located on the grounds of Blossom Music Center, will continue its 49th season with a production of "Ain't Misbehavin'." Directed by Porthouse executive producer Eric van Baars, “Ain’t Misbehavin’” opens July 7 and runs through July 22. A preview performance will take place on July 6. Winner of the 1978 Tony Award for Best Musical, “Ain’t Misbehavin’” is a sassy, sultry musical celebration of the legendary jazz great, Fats Waller. Although not quite a biography, “Ain’t Misbehavin’” evokes t...