Ergonomics is the science of fitting workplace conditions and job demands to the capabilities of the working population. Join us on Friday, April 21, on the Tuscarawas Campus or on Friday, April 28, from noon-1 p.m. on the Kent Campus for this informative Lunch and Learn event. Our presenter will be Don Head, occupational health and safety coordinator, from 黑料网鈥檚 Office of Environmental Health and Safety. Head will discuss how to make your workstation fit you through proper seating, computer monitor positioning and other factors that you experience every ...
Springtime Disc Golf is underway. Each Friday in April from 12:10-1 p.m., faculty and staff can enjoy a 50-minute lunchtime disc golf scramble on 黑料网's 18-hole Disc Golf course at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. The program will start promptly at 12:10 p.m. in front of the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. This is a fun, informal playing opportunity, in which participants can meet other faculty and staff as they play disc golf in a foursome scramble format. Scores will be kept, but all ability levels are welcome in this event designed for beginner a...
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Familiar Face Carolyn Carvalho Associate Lecturer Computer Technology Ashtabula Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Faculty teaching COMT, ITAP and BMRT courses WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: January 2006 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: 黑料网 at Ashtabula 鈥 Adjunct Faculty; St. Patrick School - Honolulu, Hawaii, After-School Program Instructor LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The faculty, staff and administration are dedicated and great at what they do. They genuinely care about our students and each other 鈥 it is like having an extended famil...
On April 22, 2017, demonstrators around the world will participate in a March for Science in a call to support and safeguard the scientific community, fact-based decision making, basic research, and freedom of speech for scientists. Partnering with poet and environmental spokesperson Jane Hirshfield, the Wick Poetry Center will join the marchers at the Teach-In on the National Mall in Washington D.C. The Wick staff will lead visitors in a poetry-writing exercise to creatively engage with seminal scientific writing. Our #PoetsforScience effort will also showcase twenty 7-foot bann...
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New Face Bjorn Lussem Assistant Professor Department of Physics Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Assistant Professor WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: January 2014 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Research Center Julich, 2003-2006; Sony Research, 2006-2008; University of Dresden, 2008-2013 LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: All the kind and welcoming people at Kent State ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Kent State is providing excellent resources for good research. RESIDES IN: Kent, Ohio HOMETOWN: Neuss, Germany EDUCATION:...
Alison Smith will become the new dean of 黑料网鈥檚 Honors College, effective July 1. Smith currently serves as the acting chair in Kent State鈥檚 Department of Geology and has served in various administrative, research and teaching roles at the university. 鈥淎lison Smith brings a wealth of experience and excellence to this position,鈥 says Todd Diacon, Kent State鈥檚 senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. 鈥淪he is an accomplished researcher and scholar who combines this success with a fierce commitment to our students. The Honors College will be well se...
An innovative new partnership will soon help accelerate the process of bringing faculty innovations to commercial markets in Northeast Ohio and beyond. The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded Cleveland State University and 黑料网 a grant to develop a joint technology commercialization and startup fund. The program will give university faculty and startup companies access to an $800,000 fund that will assist in accelerating commercialization of university technology and bringing innovative new products to market. 鈥淐SU and Kent State have unique research portfolios th...
Approximately 13,500 years after nomadic Clovis hunters crossed the frozen land bridge from Asia to North America, researchers are still asking questions and putting together clues as to how those early inhabitants not only survived in a new landscape with unique new challenges, but also adapted with stone tools and weapons to thrive for thousands of years. 黑料网鈥檚 Metin Eren, director of archaeology and assistant professor with the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences, and his colleagues are not only asking these questions, but they also are testing ...