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������’s College of Business Administration will host its sixth annual Spirit of Women in Business Conference, titled “Navigating and Negotiating” on March 9 at the Kent Student Center. The conference has sold out the past three years, bringing together women from diverse professional backgrounds. Last year, more than 300 business professionals, along with undergraduate and graduate students from Northeast Ohio and beyond, attended the event. The daylong conference will be emceed by Vivian Goodman from WKSU, and includes a 60-minute keynote speech and Q&A by Deborah Kolb, ...

The Fashion School at ������ is pleased to announce that designer and business leader Josie Natori will be inducted into the Fashion School Hall of Fame on April 30. The ceremony will take place as part of the Kent State Fashion School’s Annual Fashion Show, presented the same evening. Previous inductees include Estée Lauder, Elsa Klensch, Allen Questrom, Michael Weiss, Ralph Rucci, Oscar de la Renta, Leonardo Ferragamo and Dana Buchman. Attendees of the Annual Fashion Show’s Sponsor/VIP Show held the evening of Saturday, April 30, will have the opportunity to meet Natori durin...

The Corporate University, ������ at Stark will present a one-day Nursing Home Administrators Conference on Thursday, March 10 in the Kent State Stark Conference Center, 6000 Frank Avenue NW in Jackson Township. ������ is an approved provider of continuing education credit by the Ohio Board of Executives of Long-term Services and Supports (BELTSS). This event is approved for six (6) BELTSS CEUs. Conference Agenda: 8:30 – 9 a.m.:  Registration and breakfast 9 a.m. – noon:  The Spirit of Service facilitated by Lisa Waite This session prepares...

The U.S. Basketball Writers Association has announced the selection of ������ coach and cancer survivor Danielle O'Banion as the winner of the Pat Summitt Most Courageous Award for women's basketball, and the late former Butler player Andrew Smith and his widow, Samantha, as co-recipients of the USBWA's Most Courageous Award for men's basketball. The two courage awards are presented annually by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association to honor players, coaches, officials or administrators in college basketball who have demon...

Nikki, the Top Hawk Cessna aircraft, was revealed on Feb. 23 at the ������ Airport. The aircraft is named in celebration of the life of Nicole “Nikki” Kukwa, a Kent State aeronautics student who died on Oct. 23, 2006, after receiving a leukemia diagnosis during her junior year.      ...

I have a HealthRider Softstrider treadmill that I am not using enough. It works fine. The treadmill was passed on to me so I am interested in passing it on to someone who will use it, for free. Please email aschmidt@kent.edu. I moved it in the back of my Jeep, folded up. You will need to transport it. ...

Denice Sheehan, Ph.D., RN, and Pamela Stephenson, Ph.D., RN, AOCNS, PMHCNS-BS, from the College of Nursing, participated in the 2016 Massachusetts General Hospital Workshop on Research Methods in Supportive Oncology in Boston, Massachusetts, from Feb. 21-26. Sheehan and Stephenson attended the intensive, multidisciplinary workshop, which is designed to expose participants to a broad range of research topics, while also providing dedicated time to focus on individual grant writing under the direction of experienced mentors. Sheehan’s research focuses on adolescents who have a parent in ho...

David H. Kaplan, Department of Geography, and Melanie Knowles, Office of Sustainability, authored “Developing a Next-Generation Campus Bike-Share Program” in Planning for Higher Education/Society for College and University Planning, 44(1), 1-13, Claire Turcotte (Ed.). (2015). ...

Athena Salaba, School of Library and Information Science, has co-authored and updated the 4th edition of Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction, which was previously authored by Lois Mai Chan. The new fourth edition (2016) conforms to the Library of Congress’ new standard for cataloging systems, Resource Description and Access (RDA).  ...