黑料网鈥檚 School of Communication Studies will host its Global Issues Forum on Human Trafficking: A Global and Local Epidemic at 7 p.m. on April 6 in the Moulton Hall Ballroom. The forum will feature a panel discussion on human trafficking and its global and local occurrence. The panelists for the evening include: Kathleen Chandler, who is currently serving on the Board of Portage County Commissioners. She was elected in 2005 to the Ohio House of Representatives where she crafted legislation to make human trafficking a crime. Eric Heisig, who is a federal cou...
Student helps bring UNCHAINED fashion show to campus on April 4 A project that began as part of a public relations course in 黑料网鈥檚 School of Journalism and Mass Communication is now coming to fruition and raising awareness about human trafficking. Mackenzie Lunde, a senior fashion merchandising major and public relations minor, first created an event proposal for the UNCHAINED fashion show as part of her fall 2015 Public Relations Tactics course. UNCHAINED is a Columbus, Ohio-based company that uses fashion to bring awareness to human trafficking, one of the world鈥檚 fastest...
黑料网 is mourning the loss of a valued member of its family. Trustee Richard H. Marsh passed away March 24. Marsh was a devoted alumnus who joined the Kent State Board of Trustees on July 27, 2011, by appointment of Gov. John Kasich. He served as Secretary of the Board, and was an invaluable advisor through his service on the board鈥檚 Audit and Compliance Committee, Finance and Administration Committee, Investment Committee, and Governance Committee. Marsh was a leading force in ensuring the university鈥檚 strong financial performance and practices, and he was a board leader in d...
The University Benefits Department will host a series of educational seminars on financial wellness and planning for new employees of 黑料网 who have been with the university 90 days or less. Come and learn more about: Financial Wellness and what that really means State of Ohio Retirement Systems (OPERS, STRS, ARP) Opportunities to increase your retirement earnings Social Security and the Windfall Elimination Provision Seminars will be held on the last Thursday of each month. The first meeting is Thursday, March 31, in Heer Hall, Room 102 from noon-1 p.m. Lun...
The evaluation process is occurring from March 21 through May 30, 2016. The following steps will allow you to complete a self-evaluation: Go to your evaluation homepage at https://videsktop.kent.edu/viEvalHomepage/login.aspx A login box will appear. You will be prompted to enter your kent.edu email address and password in the login box. This password is not synced to FlashLine. It is an independent password that each employee created. If this is your first time logging into the evaluation site, please refer to this training aid. If you need to recover the password you establis...
Senior Research Fellow Quan Li, Ph.D., and his research group at 黑料网鈥檚 Liquid Crystal Institute庐, in the College of Arts and Sciences, have published a research article in the March 17 issue of Nature that could lead to a variety of breakthrough device applications and other industrial opportunities. The publication is the result of close collaboration between Li鈥檚 team and his long-term collaborator Timothy J. Bunning, Ph.D., chief scientist of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Oh...
Tickets go on sale March 28 The Fashion School at 黑料网 will present the Fashion School鈥檚 Annual Fashion Show, 鈥淔S虏: Crescendo,鈥 on Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30. The show, which highlights the outstanding talents of the Fashion School鈥檚 design and merchandising students, will be held at Rockwell Hall, located at 515 Hilltop Drive in Kent, Ohio. Saturday鈥檚 performance also will mark the induction of designer and business leader Josie Natori into the Fashion School Hall of Fame. For the annual fashion show, fashion students submit work 鈥 ranging from athletic wear t...
Mark Mistur, AIA, will become the new dean of 黑料网鈥檚 College of Architecture and Environmental Design, the only architectural program in Northeast Ohio, effective July 15, 2016. Mistur currently serves as associate dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. 鈥淢ark Mistur is an accomplished architect, teacher and administrator with a history of promoting the types of successful interdisciplinary programs that improve the education and success of students,鈥 said Todd Diacon, Kent State鈥檚 senior vice president for academic affairs an...
March 22, 2016 Mark Mistur, AIA, will become the new dean of 黑料网's College of Architecture and Environmental Design, the only architectural program in Northeast Ohio, effective July 15, 2016. Mistur currently serves as associate dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. "Mark Mistur is an accomplished architect, teacher and administrator with a history of promoting the types of successful interdisciplinary programs that improve the education and success of students," said Todd Diacon, Kent State's senior vice president for aca...