April 2012 News Archive
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Saturday lecture on climate change
“Potential Local Impacts of Global Climate Change”
- Posted Apr. 25, 2012 -
Kent State Awarded $1.25 Million to Help Build Research and Education Network in Bangladesh
An international partnership between Kent State University, the Ohio Academic Resource Network (OARnet) and Ireland’s National Research and Education Network (HEAnet) has been selected to provide advanced technical expertise in building the Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN) through an international competition.
- Posted Apr. 24, 2012 -
Department of Pan-African Studies Holds Conference, “Slavery, Colonialism and African Identities in the Atlantic World”
- Posted Apr. 23, 2012 -
Kent State Professor Examines Link Between Parental Time Pressure and Depression
- Posted Apr. 23, 2012 -
Two Kent State Professors Receive Farris Family Innovation Awards
- Posted Apr. 23, 2012 -
Annual Geography Honors Awards Ceremony recognizes students.
On April 18th, Kent State Geographers came together to celebrate the discipline and recognize the highest achievers in the department. Several awards were handed out to undergraduates, graduates, and faculty.
- Posted Apr. 21, 2012 -
Department of Pan-African Studies Holds Conference, “Slavery, Colonialism and African Identities in the Atlantic World”
Kent State University’s Department of Pan-African Studies is hosting the conference “Slavery, Colonialism and African Identities in the Atlantic World” on April 26 and 27 at Ritchie Hall.
- Posted Apr. 21, 2012 -
Rosemary Arrojo- "Translation as Subversion in Latin American Fiction"
2nd lecture in the annual Gregory M. Shreve Lecture series. Fri April 13 3:30pm Satterfield Hall Rm. 112A
- Posted Apr. 17, 2012 -
10th Annual Chemistry Honors Week Celebration of Student Achievement
Join the faculty, students and staff of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry on Thursday, April 19, 2012 as we celebrate student achievement.
- Posted Apr. 17, 2012 -
CS Colloquium 4/20/2012 "Mining High-Throughput Biological Data"
- Posted Apr. 17, 2012 -
New Jewish Studies Courses for Fall 2012!
Jewish Musicians in History, Jewish Law
- Posted Apr. 16, 2012 -
Congrats to Mahli Mechenbier and Karl Macura, Winners of the Distinguished Teacher and Advisor Awards
- Posted Apr. 16, 2012 -
Ohio Board of Regents Approves New Undergraduate Degree Programs
- Posted Apr. 16, 2012 -
Kent State, Wick Poetry Center Present Giving Voice, April 23
- Posted Apr. 16, 2012 -
Department of Pan-African Studies Hosts Women’s Activist
- Posted Apr. 16, 2012 -
Kent State Professor Examines Link Between Parental Time Pressure and Depression
A recently published paper by Kent State University Associate Professor Susan Roxburgh examines the association between depression and parental time pressures among employed married parents.
Roxburgh is a sociologist who has been with Kent State since 1994. The Journal of Family Issues published her paper “Parental Time Pressures and Depression among Married Dual-Earner Parents” in its most recent issue (November, 2011).
- Posted Apr. 13, 2012 -
Play & Discussion- Nathan the Wise
Sun April 15 2pm The Wright Curtis Theatre
- Posted Apr. 13, 2012 -
Kent State Presents the 26th Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference on April 20
Kent State University will host the 26th Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference on Friday, April 20, at the Hilton West in Fairlawn, Ohio. The theme for the conference, presented by Kent State’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC), is “Employee Ownership: Simply a Better Way of Doing Business.”
- Posted Apr. 12, 2012 -
Community Discussion Honors Late Middle East Journalist Anthony Shadid
Widely regarded as the best American journalist covering the Middle East, Anthony Shadid died tragically while covering the conflict in Syria this past February.
Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times, was originally scheduled to come to Cleveland in March as part of the Northeast Ohio Consortium for Middle East Studies (NOCMES) speaker series.
To honor his work and memory, a community discussion of Shadid’s last book “House of Stone” will be held on Thursday, April 19, at 7 p.m. at the Cuyahoga County Public Library, located at 25501 Shaker Blvd. in Beachwood, Ohio.
- Posted Apr. 10, 2012 -
Kent State Holds 13th Annual Symposium on Democracy, April 23-25
Kent State University’s 13th annual Symposium on Democracy will be held at the Kent Student Center Kiva on April 23-25. In recognition of the 150th anniversary of the nation’s greatest conflict, this year’s theme is “Democracy and the American Civil War.” The event is free and open to the public.
- Posted Apr. 9, 2012 -
Francis Dorsey Named President of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society
Francis Dorsey, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Pan-African Studies at Kent State University, has been named president of the Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society.
- Posted Apr. 9, 2012 -
Kent State’s Institute of Applied Linguistics Presents Second Annual Translation Studies Lecture Series
- Posted Apr. 9, 2012 -
Kent State’s School of Biomedical Sciences Holds Research Symposium on April 12
- Posted Apr. 9, 2012 -
Kent State’s African Community Theatre Presents “Ain’t Nothing But a Thang”
- Posted Apr. 9, 2012 -
Poli Sci Club/Pi Sigma Alpha - Restore Hope Project, Sun April 15, 6:00 PM
The Political Science Club and Pi Sigma Alpha are co-hosting the Restore Hope Project with Amnesty International. The Restore Hope Project Kent Talent Showcase to benefit Danny and Friends, a non-profit building a school in Sierra Leone, will be Sunday, April 15th. Doors open at 6, event begins at 7. Tickets are on sale! Email skrisand@kent.edu
- Posted Apr. 5, 2012 -
Celebrating Our Own 2012
- Posted Apr. 4, 2012 -
Kent State Planetarium Presents Cosmic Beginnings: Birth, Death and Rebirth in the Universe
- Posted Apr. 2, 2012 -
Kent State Sociology Professor Ranks Influential on Twitter
David Purcell, assistant professor of sociology, is influencing his colleagues in the field of sociology and his followers – one tweet at a time.
- Posted Apr. 2, 2012 -
Humanism and the Healing Arts Conference
- Posted Apr. 2, 2012
