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Familiar Face Kevin Wolfgang Outreach Program Manager TechStyleLAB at the Fashion School Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: My job is to support learning/teaching, research and commercial investigation of digital design and production technologies in the fashion context. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: September 2011 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Brooks Brothers LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The ability to work with a diverse group of students and professionals in cross-curricular programming and initiatives. ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY A...

New Face LeighAnn Tomaswick Innovation Learning Design Specialist Center for Teaching and Learning Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Support instructors especially in their efforts to innovate in their classrooms largely through implementation of evidence-based approaches. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: October 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Michigan State University LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Great colleagues, beautiful campus and Kent State’s special attention to employees’ health and wellness ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN ...

ºÚÁÏÍø has announced that three candidates for dean and chief administrative officer of ºÚÁÏÍø's Columbiana County Campuses (ºÚÁÏÍø at East Liverpool and ºÚÁÏÍø at Salem) will be on campus over the next several weeks. Each candidate will hold a public presentation to discuss the following: Brief biography/background Challenges facing higher education Opportunities and challenges of a Regional Campus Experience/examples of interacting with the broader community Anything else the candidate would like to mention on how he will app...

On the weekend of March 11 and 12, the ºÚÁÏÍø Thai Ensemble traveled to Los Angeles to participate in a conference to highlight the restoration of the UCLA Thai music instrument collection donated in the 1960s by David Morton. While there, they performed as part of the conference and were able to experience a world-class performance by house musicians of the National Theatre in Bangkok during a traditional wai khru ceremony. The two-day conference began with performances on Saturday by musicians from the Los Angeles community, Chicago and the newly established Thai Ensemble at ...

Bethany Lanese, assistant professor of health policy and management in the College of Public Health at ºÚÁÏÍø, has been awarded the 2016-2017 Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Award for her course Foundations of Effective Public Health Leadership. The biannual award program, hosted by Blackboard, the learning management system, used at Kent State for teaching, learning and student engagement, recognizes online courses that have excelled in four areas: Course Design, Interaction and Collaboration, Assessment and Learner Support. Lanese previously won the award in 2015 fo...

ºÚÁÏÍø’s Office of Sexual and Relationship Violence and Support Services is the recipient of three grants to launch campuswide awareness and prevention initiatives surrounding sexual harassment and assault, relationship violence and stalking. The three grants total approximately $450,000. Each grant has a focus that corresponds with the initiatives it will fund on campus. The Violence Against Women Act Campus Programs grant allocates $300,000 over three years for Prevention Education and Awareness. The grant is given through the Office on Violence Against Women. Read more ...

Area residents can have water samples tested for free, thanks to a research project being conducted by Dr. Qunxing Ding, associate professor of biology at ºÚÁÏÍø at East Liverpool. Ding is seeking water samples from areas within city limits, as well as from surrounding communities, for an independent study on water quality. He intends to geographically map samples to determine if there are any correlations with location and water quality. “Water content in the human body is about 65 percent and may be more than 70 percent in children. All the metabolic processes, including dig...

Join us this Thursday, April 13, at 6:00 pm at the Akron Art Museum for the first public poetry reading by the participants of our Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders project. The project, made possible by a major grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has allowed teaching artists from the Wick Poetry Center to engage the refugee and immigrant populations in the Akron, Ohio community in a cross-cultural, intergenerational conversation through poetry and graphic design. Working with Project Learn, Urban Vision, and the International Institute of Akron’s (IIA) refugee and i...