Ford Next Generation Learning community supports College and Career Academy for Akron students Kent State University is offering special expertise and resources to high school students attending Akron Public Schools to include immersive opportunities with the university鈥檚 fashion, arts and architecture programs. The announcement was made May 16 as Akron Public Schools was named a Ford Next Generation Learning (NGL) community in a ceremony at the National Inventors Hall of Fame STEM Middle School in downtown Akron. The ceremony also focused on a newly created academy and partnership betwe...
Kent State University at East Liverpool held its annual nursing pinning ceremony May 10, during which 45 students were recognized for receiving degrees through the associate degree in nursing (ADN) program. Linda Warino, executive director of the Ohio Nurses Association, District 3, presented the ONA District 3 Lori Grenich Student Nurse Award to Ryan Greier, recognizing excellence in clinical nursing and professional awareness. Ashley Chisom received the East Liverpool ADN Nursing Professionalism award, as well as the ADN academic award. Colleen Herbert received the ADN service award. The ...
Kent State University at East Liverpool recognized the academic achievements of several students during its annual Wall of Fame and Honors Banquet, as well as the support from community members. The late Brett Hartenbach received the Lifetime Achievement Award, based on his professional career, community service and support of Kent State East Liverpool. Hartenbach studied journalism at Kent State East Liverpool and later became an accomplished writer, musician, song writer and performer who took the stage at venues around the world. The late Adam Steel received the Friend of the Campus Award...
Kent Campus
May 13: Dr. C. Lockwood Reynolds is an associate professor of economics in the College of Business Administration at Kent State. Dr. Reynolds鈥 research is in the area of empirical economics, where he attempts to distinguish between correlational and causal factors on topics ranging from local tax policy to college access and affordability. The effects of location-based tax policies on the distribution of household income The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice Where to attend? Estimating the effects of beginning college at a two-year institu...
College of Arts & Sciences
We are happy to announce that associate professor Kara L. Robinson will now serve as the subject librarian for the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and its undergraduate programs in Gender and Sexuality, LGBT Studies, and Women鈥檚 Studies. Kara currently serves as the subject librarian for a number of departments whose interests and resources intersect with those of the Center. She is looking forward to working with your students and faculty to identify materials we already own that will support their research interests and to seek out and provide access to addit...
On Wednesday, May 10, a few days before Spring 2017 Commencement ceremonies, approximately 400 graduating international students and their friends and family gathered in the Kent Student Ballroom to celebrate their upcoming achievement during the annual International Graduate Student Reception. During the event, students shared congratulations about their upcoming rite-of-passage, traded selfies, enjoyed the food and refreshments provided and reflected on their long, yet all-too-short academic journey at Kent State University. The graduates in attendance also received a commemorative stole lis...
College of Communication & Information
An in-depth report on voting rights and regulations by the Carnegie-Knight News21 Initiative, produced by students from Kent State University and 17 other universities, has received a top national award for student investigations. Investigative Reporters & Editors has named the Carnegie-Knight News21 鈥淰oting Wars鈥 project the recipient of the IRE Award for Student Reporting in the large university category. Headquartered at Arizona State University鈥檚 Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, News21 is a multimedia reporting initiative established by the Carn...
Kent State University will become a smoke-free, tobacco-free campus beginning July 1. The new policy is part of the university鈥檚 healthy campus initiative, Kent State of Wellness. For those desiring to quit, Kent State provides an abundance of cessation resources for students, faculty and staff to help them quit smoking. According to the American Lung Association, the first seven to 10 days are the toughest and most smokers who return to smoking do so within the first three months, so it is a vital time to support their efforts during that time. 鈥淎s a university, we feel it鈥檚 part of ...