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A good education and a solid résumé aren’t always enough to make a positive first impression. To bridge the gap, a group of ������ faculty and staff members have come together to establish the Kent State Career Closet, a project to collect, organize and distribute professional attire for students in need of something suitable to wear for a job interview. Tabitha Martin, venture initiatives advisor at LaunchNET Kent State, says the idea came up during a conversation at the grand opening reception for the Women’s Center at Williamson House last year. “You can’t go on an intervie...

From interviewing sources sitting at a kitchen table 6,538 miles away from home to having tea with the president of Estonia, ������ students in the special topics course International Storytelling have been learning in a global classroom since 2011.  In two-week trips, students break language barriers, cross international boarders and experience new cultures, all the while living like locals instead of tourists. The course was first offered in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in spring 2011. Since then, College of Communication and Information class members...

New Face Ryan Hediger   Associate Professor Department of English Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Teaching and researching U.S. literature, the environmental humanities, and animal studies. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 2011 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Assistant Professor of English, La Salle University LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The people! Lots of energy, diversity and opportunity  ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: It genuinely serves the communities of Northeast Ohio.  RESIDES IN: ...

New Face Kristofer A. Braxton Academic Advisor I College of Arts and Sciences Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Advise current and prospective students regarding interpretation of placement assessment, curricular requirements related to academic objectives, career options and registration procedure. Review student academic progress and advise students on specific actions regarding academic and career goals. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: October 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Columbus State Community College LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The w...

The Wick Poetry Center is proud to be part of the twenty-two-member national Poetry Coalition (PoCo) united to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. During the month of March, the Poetry Coalition launches its inaugural effort, Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration.   The Wick Poetry Center will present programs and projects on the theme of migration, starting with a weekly interview with a participant in our ongoing Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders ...

James Hannon, Ph.D., will become the new dean of ������’s College of Education, Health and Human Services, effective July 1, 2017. Hannon currently serves as professor and assistant dean of Academic Affairs and Research for the College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.  “We are pleased that Dr. Hannon has agreed to serve as the next dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Services,” said Todd Diacon, Kent State’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. “His impressive scholarship, hi...

For Emily Grubb, all it took was looking through a magazine to decide where to go to college. A high school friend shared a copy of Fusion magazine, ������’s first lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) magazine, which led Grubb to the university. Now a sophomore majoring in social geography with a minor in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Studies, the 20-year-old transgender student from Medina, Ohio, says Kent State is home. “There were great articles in there,” said Grubb, who identifies as nonbinary, meaning Grubb’s gender identi...

Given the quantity and quality of research studies he has already conducted in his academic career, it’s no surprise that one of the largest draws to ������ at Stark for Assistant Professor Haithem Zourrig, Ph.D., was the marketing department’s robust research initiatives. "Designing and conducting research are my favorite parts of being a professor,” said Zourrig, and it shows. His efforts so far have been productive and rewarding, earning him numerous awards and accolades in the marketing community. Zourrig’s research has appeared in the Journal of Business Research and Jou...