The city of Kent is thrilled to announce an exciting partnership with Kent State University鈥檚 Wick Poetry Center and Main Street Kent to bring Traveling Stanzas to downtown utility boxes. Visitors to downtown Kent can now see seven utility boxes that have been covered with Traveling Stanzas鈥� poems, written by local schoolchildren and adults, and paired with beautiful illustrations. By pushing an easily accessible audio button, visitors also can listen to the child or adult read his or her poem. The utility boxes project also will connect to future Traveling Stanzas鈥� displays ...
For an eighth consecutive year, Kent State University has been named a 2017 Military Friendly庐 School. Military Friendly is the military ratings division of Victory Media, a service-disabled, veteran-owned business that also publishes G.I. Jobs庐, STEM Jobs, Military Spouse and Vetrepreneur庐. Military Friendly rates companies and colleges on their programs to recruit and retain military veterans as employees and students. This is also the sixth year that Kent State University at Tuscarawas has held the elite title as a Military Friendly School. The Military Friendly School designation recogn...
Audience votes Team India's dish of chicken chili as People Choice An audience of 870 Kent State University students, faculty, staff and families packed the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Nov. 17 to enjoy the culinary creations of six international cooking teams in this year's International Cook-Off Competition. Three judges 鈥� Jim Bracken, dean of University Libraries; Victor M. Torres, director of global engagement at Northeast Ohio Medical University; and Kathy Spicer, outreach program manager for Kent State鈥檚 Office of the Provost 鈥� were given the task of selecting the top three winners i...
As an extension of the Fashion School at Kent State University, the NYC Studio provides full-semester academic programs for fashion students during the fall, spring or summer terms. For more information, visit www.kent.edu/fashion/NYCStudio. ...
Lawrence Weidleman tried attending college soon after being discharged from the U.S. Army. He had been injured during Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield so he was still very young. But he realized in short order that he was not ready. The Kent State University at Stark student and 45-year-old middle childhood education major told his story to a gathering of more than 100 onlookers during the dedication of the new William G. Bittle Veterans Commons on Nov. 10. The space is designed for veteran students to gather between classes and talk or study together, or to provide each other with suppor...
Kent State University Foundation also steps up with $50,000 one-to-one match Kent State University President Beverly Warren again pledged $25,000 to support Kent State on Nov. 29, which is Giving Tuesday. In addition, the Kent State University Foundation is pledging an additional $50,000 to match every gift, dollar for dollar, designated to the Kent State programs and initiatives of the donor鈥檚 choice. Kent State has participated in Giving Tuesday the last four years, and this is the second year that Warren has pledged a matching gift. Kent State alumni, friends, faculty and staff are en...
Familiar Face Robin Joynes Associate Professor Department of Psychological Sciences Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I teach a variety of courses in the psychology department. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 2000 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Post-doctoral Fellowship at UCLA LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The beautiful campus and friendly, collegiate atmosphere ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Many opportunities for advancement, incentives and rewards for scholarly work and teaching excellence, top-notch benefi...
Nearly 900 Kent State University students, faculty, staff and families packed the Kent Student Center Ballroom Thursday night to enjoy the culinary creations of six international cooking teams in this year's International Cook-Off Competition. Three judges 鈥� including Jim Bracken, Ph.D., dean of the University Libraries; Victor M. Torres, director of global engagement at the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED); and Kathy Spicer, outreach program manager for Kent State鈥檚 Office of the Provost 鈥� were given the task of selecting the top three winners in the competition. The audience ...
Hillary Clinton is the subject of a special topics course at Kent State University - Hillary Clinton Case Study: Perspectives on Gender and Power. Suzanne Holt, Ph.D., professor and director of Women鈥檚 Studies in Kent State鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences recognized that there was a scholarly need for students to be able to contextualize gender and power as the first woman of a major party to became a candidate for president. 鈥淭o me, this is an important example of what women鈥檚 studies can provide to our students 鈥� an inquiry into culture, discrimination, and hegemonic power seen ...
Product also can help athletes recover from blisters and calluses that can impede their performance Kent State University students Nilin Rao, Ph.D., and Craig Verdin, and Exercise Science and Physiology Professor Ellen Glickman, Ph.D., are the co-founders of TheraPod Medical LLC, a wound-care company that is looking to transform the field of podiatric medicine. Rao, a fourth-year podiatric student who completed his master鈥檚 and doctorate degrees in exercise physiology from Kent State, and Verdin, a second-year podiatric student in Kent State鈥檚 College of Podiatric Medicine, have been wor...
