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Tenured Faculty Receiving Promotion: Kent, College of Arts and Sciences, Physics, Maxim Dzero, Promoted to Associate Professor Kent, College of Arts and Sciences, Modern and Classical Language Studies, Geoffrey Koby, Promoted to Professor Kent, College of Arts and Sciences, Sociology, William Kalkoff, Promoted to Professor Stark, College of Arts and Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Gro Hovhannisyan, Promoted to Professor Kent, College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science, Ryan Claassen, Promoted to Professor Kent, College of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, S...

Christopher Dum, Department of Sociology, authored Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel, 1st Ed., New York, NY: Columbia University Press, (2016). Summary: Residential motels have long been a place of last resort for many vulnerable Americans—released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illness, struggling addicts, the recently homeless, and the working poor. Cast aside by their families and mainstream society, they survive in squalid, unsafe and demeaning circumstances that few of us can imagine. For a year, the sociologist Christopher P. Dum lived in ...

Familiar Face Timothy Smith Senior Development Associate WKSU Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I represent WKSU to businesses, organizations and foundations to secure funds for program operations. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: November 2005 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: University of Notre Dame, Purdue University, Bowling Green State University, Frigoscandia Manufacturing LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Vibrancy ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: The university’s award-winning National Public Radio station. RESIDES IN: ...

New Face Rachel Cordy Supplemental Instruction Coordinator Academic Success Center Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Coordinate the Supplemental Instruction program (free, peer-facilitated group study sessions for certain large, historically difficult courses) WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: September 2015 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Assistant director of student activities at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The people! I am lucky to work with the best and brightest students and a caring and supportive s...

Employees of ������ may qualify for participation in the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. Under this program, full-time employees can apply for forgiveness from certain types of student loans, possibly reducing or eliminating their debt. For additional information and forms, please access the loan forgiveness website at https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service. Please contact your loan servicer to determine your eligibility under this program. Once your paperwork is completed, forward the documents for employment veri...

Following a national search, ������ has selected F. Jack Witt III as its new vice president for human resources. A Kent State alumnus, Witt currently serves as vice president of human resources and administration at Owens Community College in Toledo, Ohio. He joins Kent State on Sept. 6. Witt will be the senior officer responsible for the oversight of the university's Division of Human Resources. He will direct the component activities of the division, which includes talent acquisition, equal opportunity and affirmative action, employee development, compensation, reco...

������'s Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Todd Diacon has announced that Joan Inderhees will join the Office of the Provost in August to serve as the 2016-2017 Provost's Fellow. The Provost's Fellowship provides faculty members who have an interest in academic administration the chance to develop knowledge, skills and experience as an administrator; increase the understanding of the faculty about practices and procedures in academic administration; extend and strengthen the administrative resources of the university; assist in the development and implement...

On June 28, ������’s Division of Information Services will begin implementing a Captcha service for the Kent State online directory. A Captcha is a security feature that differentiates people from internet bots by presenting online users with a simple visual puzzle, often made up of distorted text.                              Bots are software applications that run automated tasks over the web and can be used to harvest data and spam users. Using a Captcha provides protecti...

Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences at ������ have published a breakthrough article on new properties of liquid crystals in the May 27 issue of Physical Review Letters. The article, which describes some recent surprising results involving nematic liquid crystals induced by a high magnetic field, is currently featured on the American Physical Society website as an “Editors’ Suggestion.” “This basic scientific discovery does not have immediate applications, but may eventually lead to advances in refrigeration efficiency and computer memory storage using latent heat,” ...