Kent State Students Form New Autism Student Organization
Group created by students with autism spectrum disorder to highlight diversity, not disability Kent State University is once again starting a new fall semester with an abundance of enthusiastic students, but one thing is strikingly different: Kent State has a new student organization on campus that joins the few of its type in the nation. Autism Connections Kent has been created by students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their allies with the focus that autism spectrum disorder is a diversity issue and not a disability. 鈥淎 lot of symptoms of ASD are great assets in certain caree...
Video: The Kent State University Aeronautics Fair
The Kent State University Aeronautics Fair is a free-entrance festival held at the Andrew W. Paton Field at the Kent State University Airport. The 2016 fair took place on Sept. 10. ...
Three Kent Researchers Land Grant to Develop City Planning Software
As the City of Kent continues its renaissance, and nearby cities like Akron and Youngstown continue to refine their plans to revitalize, an understanding of how people use a city and move through it could be vital to development plans.
A grant from the National Science Foundation could put some Kent State University researchers in a position to help such cities find and use that data.
The two-year $100,000 grant will contribute to the work of Associate Professor of Computer Science Dr. Ye Zhao, Assistant Professor of Geography, Dr. Xinyue Ye, Professor of Geography, Dr. Andrew Curtis, and their colleague, Computer Science Professor, Dr. Jing Yang of UNC-Charlotte.
College of Communication & Information
The School of Communication Studies will host its fall Colloquium Series beginning Friday, Oct. 7 at 2:30 p.m. in Franklin Hall, Room 312/314. The series will kick off with a presentation from assistant professor, Michael Beam, titled, 鈥淩esisting the Filter Bubble: Examining the Positive Impact of Using Social Media for Reading and Sharing Online News.鈥 Beam鈥檚 presentation will include analyses of survey data collected during the last two U.S. election cycles focused on the impact of reading and sharing news through social media. He will also discuss how the 鈥淔ilter Bubbles,鈥 or partisan ec...
Kent Campus boasts records in enrollment growth, retention and freshman class size, quality and diversity Kent State University continues to set records as it begins a new academic year. The university is marking the 10th consecutive year of enrollment growth on the Kent Campus with increasing diversity and academic success while also welcoming another record-setting freshman class. The university released its official 15th day census data for the 2016 Fall Semester and reported 29,105 enrolled students at the Kent Campus, demonstrating 10 straight years of enrollment growth. The K...
Kent Campus boasts records in enrollment growth, retention and freshman class size, quality and diversity Kent State University continues to set records as it begins a new academic year. The university is marking the 10th consecutive year of enrollment growth on the Kent Campus with increasing diversity and academic success while also welcoming another record-setting freshman class. The university released its official 15th day census data for the 2016 Fall Semester and reported 29,105 enrolled students at the Kent Campus, demonstrating 10 straight years of enrollment growth. The K...
College of Communication & Information
Kent State University journalism professors Gordon Murray, Ph.D., and Jacqueline Marino tasked students in their Mobile Publishing class with a special project to create a magazine designed for tablets. The course brought together students from the schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Digital Sciences to create an interactive magazine with an accompanying website. The class, in its first semester, was something that Murray and Marino envisioned and conceptualized together. 鈥淏oth Jacqueline and I are used to working in creative, collaborative environments, and that鈥檚 what we want...