New Face Kristen Washington Recruiting Coordinator Career Exploration and Development Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I assist with the delivery of comprehensive on-campus recruiting services to students, alumni, the university community and external constituencies. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: July 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Graduate Assistant at the University of Akron LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I love the inclusive and welcoming environment that the university community provides. Glad to be a part of the Golden Flashes fami...
Bring your bike from home or check out a bike through the Flashfleet bike-sharing program at one of eight locations around the Kent Campus. Flashfleet locations include the Student Recreation and Wellness Center, Eastway Center, Van Campen Hall, Tri-Towers, Terrace Hall, Stopher-Johnson, the Kent Student Center and PARTA in downtown Kent. The lunchtime ride will take place on Tuesday, July 18, from noon-1 p.m. Chris John from Kent State’s Department of Recreational Services will lead us on a 30- to 40-minute campus ride, as well as around the surrounding community. Plea...
When someone suffers a stroke, traumatic brain injury or brain tumor, one of the common symptoms is aphasia, a disorder that arises from damage to portions of the brain, usually the left side, that are responsible for language. It impairs the expression and understanding of language, as well as reading and writing. About one million people in the United States currently have aphasia, and nearly 180,000 Americans acquire it each year, according to the National Aphasia Association. But, there is not a consensus in the medical community on how to best provide rehabilitation for those affli...
Researchers in Professor Philip Bos’ laboratory at 's Liquid Crystal Institute® and the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently published the results of their collaborative development of advanced liquid crystal devices that can steer a beam of laser light without physical motion. Steering a beam of laser light is easily done by mechanically shifting the position of a laser. But what if you would like to steer a beam of light without physical motion? “It would be great if there were a device, like a window, where the dir...
’s current Police Academy cadets recently scored a collective 100 percent on their State of Ohio Physical Fitness Assessment. Only 12 of the 29 cadets, formally known as BAS 17-016, initially passed the assessment on Feb. 6 at the beginning of the program. “They made a commitment to one another,” said Class Commander Wayne Parker, Sergeant with Police Department. “As a gesture of good luck for their final assessment, one of the cadets had athletic socks made for all 29 cadets with their class number stitched in them.” The assessment consists of ...
Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., associate professor in ’s School of Information (iSchool), has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach at the University of Zadar in Croatia for the Fall 2017 Semester. She will teach a course she created, Current Issues in Document/ation Studies, guest lecture in other courses, participate in several conferences and advise students. She also will have the opportunity to lecture at the University of Zagreb and collaborate on a project around Ivo Maroević, a Croatian museologist who has been very influential on her own work. Latham created th...
Did you know the Campus Kitchen at Kent State prepares an average of 350 meals each week for individuals facing food insecurity in our local community? In the past year, more than 3,000 individuals assisted with meal prep and food delivery programs at the Campus Kitchen at Kent State. The Campus Kitchen runs on donated food, shared kitchen space with campus dining services, and volunteers who are committed to addressing hunger. Over the summer months, as campus quiets down and most students return home, the Campus Kitchen leadership team is faced with a lack of human power to ensure meals are...
Fourteen students participated in an eight-day, education-abroad trip to Greece sponsored by the university’s School of Theatre and Dance during spring break. The program, described as an experience of “Theatre, Performance, Gender and Sexuality,” was led by faculty members Daniel Nadon and Yuko Kurahashi. In many ways, the eight days spent in Greece was a trip back in time. The study group visited numerous ancient Greek sites associated with the theatre, including the Acropolis, Delphi, the Theatre Dionysus and the outdoor theatre of Epidaurus, which is a...
’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative has received the 2017 Great Places Award in the Place Planning category from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). The EDRA Great Places Awards recognize professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design and pay special attention to the relationship between physical form of the built environment and human activity or experience. Each year, the association honors work in four categories: Place Design, Place Planning, Place Research and Book Award. The 2017 Place Planning Award specifically rec...
Experience a summer day on the Kent Campus. ...