The 黑料网 Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Friday, Sept. 30. The Board is scheduled to convene at 2 p.m. in the Aeronautics and Technology Building, Room 101. The Aeronautics and Technology Building is located at 1400 E. Summit St. in Kent, Ohio. Trustees will retire into executive session from 8-9:30 a.m. in Room 214 to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio鈥檚 鈥淪unshine Law.鈥 Board committees will meet as follows: Academic Excellence and Student Success Committee 鈥 9:30-10:30 a.m. in Room 229. Audit and Compliance C...
黑料网鈥檚 Division of Human Resources is inviting all faculty, staff and their families to walk in the 2016 Homecoming Parade. Show your Kent State blue and gold pride by wearing a Kent State or superhero shirt while walking in the parade on Oct. 1 at 10 a.m. For more information and details about meeting times and location on Oct. 1, contact Maria Terleckyj at mterleck@kent.edu. ...
The annual Open Enrollment period for choosing your 2017 health benefits is Oct. 9-28, 2016. Information about your benefit choices for 2017 is available online; you WILL NOT receive a printed booklet in the mail. Beginning Oct. 9, view the booklet online and make your elections at www.kent.edu/hr/benefits/2017-open-enrollment. Come to the wellness fair and meet with representatives from the university鈥檚 various benefits providers for 2017. Find out more about the wellness resources available, including free health screenings and flu vaccines. Wellness Fair dates for each Kent State l...
The first project created in our new fabrication laboratory is a thin-shell catenary surface experiment utilizing burlap and quickcrete. This marks the beginning of what is to come from our new digital/non-digital maker facility at the new CAED. ...
College of the Arts
Breanne Trammell, Assistant Professor in Print Media, has been selected for a Juror's Award for her print "Bad As I Wanna Be (Cheetah)" (below). The annual international juried exhibition Stand Out Prints is located at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, MN. Seventy-two prints and objects (by 64 artists across four countries and 27 states) were selected from more than 800 submissions through an international call. The exhibition was juried by Elizabeth Wyckoff, Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum. ...
KENT, OHIO, Sept. 12, 2016 鈥 黑料网鈥檚 Middle Childhood Education program is the first in the state of Ohio to offer an undergraduate program authorized by the International Baccalaureate (IB) Organization: the IB Middle Years Program Certificate in Teaching and Learning. The IB Middle Years Program (MYP) is a curriculum for students in grades 6-10, and focuses on the development of the whole child in the classroom and in the world outside. The IB is a recognized leader in the field of international education. The program defines international education as developing citizens ...
Some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, from the small screen to the A-listers, walked the infamous red carpet for the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards. While some glistened with glamour, others had some major misses. To help judge the best and the worst dressed, Sabrina Pierotti, 黑料网 Fashion School student joined Romona Robinson and Mark Nolan on WOIO-TV in Cleveland via www.cleveland19.com. Here are Pierotti鈥檚 picks for best dressed. Here are Pierotti鈥檚 picks for worst dressed. ...
Former NBC executive Paula Madison is 2016 McGruder Award recipient; Plain Dealer columnist Phillip Morris to Be Honored with Diversity Leadership Award 黑料网鈥檚 School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will honor Paula Madison, former NBC journalist and executive, with the 2016 Robert G. McGruder Distinguished Award for her accomplishments in media diversity. Madison will visit the Kent Campus to present a lecture on media diversity and accept the award on Sept. 29. The keynote lecture, which is open to the public, wi...
Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two Kent State professors are researching climate change in Alaska. Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professors from 黑料网's College of Arts and Sciences, spent a week in Fairbanks, Alaska in June studying how climate change affects the availability of plant nutrients in arctic and sub-arctic ecosystems. The grant teams up two of Kent State鈥檚 newest researchers. 鈥淚 think it鈥檚 really great that two early-career scientists were awarded the funds to do this research,...