April-May 2010 News Archive
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Kent State Starts Exchange Program with Wurzburg University
Kent State University has developed a new international exchange program with Germany’s University of Wurzburg. The new partnership will allow undergraduate Kent State students to study abroad at the German university, located in a picturesque region of northern Bavaria.
- Posted May. 20, 2010 -
Professors Dragan, Maletic, Nesterenko Promoted to Professor
Computer Science Associate Professors Feodor Dragan, Jonathan Maletic, and Mikhail Nesterenko have been promoted to full Professor, effective this fall. Congratulations to the three of them for this important recognition of their professional achievement!
- Posted May. 14, 2010 -
Four KSU Students Participate in 2010 Google Summer of Code
Four KSU students -- Brian Bartman, Thomas Mulally, Justin Shreve, and Andrew Sutton -- will be participating in the 2010 "Google Summer of Code" program, designed to encourage college student participation in Open Source software development.
- Posted May. 13, 2010 -
Jill Folk Awarded Grant from March of Dimes Foundation
3-year project will investigate the cognitive and linguistic skills that underlie the ability to comprehend written language in congenitally deafened readers.
- Posted May. 13, 2010 -
2010-2011 Provost’s Fellows Announced
The Provost’s Fellowship is designed to develop faculty leaders by providing opportunities for mid-career and senior faculty to serve half-time for one semester in an administrative role in the Office of the Provost.
- Posted May. 13, 2010 -
NIH Awards $2.7-Million Grant to Kent State
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $2.7-million grant to Kent State University for a collaborative research project with Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing, Summa Health System in Akron and University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland to study cognitive impairment in heart failure patients. The four-year grant from NIH’s National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute runs through Jan. 31, 2014.
- Posted May. 6, 2010 -
Hermosilla, Advising System earn Certificate of Merit
Dr. Hermosilla, MCLS Advising System earn 2010 NACADA Advising Technology Innovation Certificate of Merit.
- Posted May. 5, 2010 -
2010 Celebration of Scholarship
The celebration will showcase the creative activity and explorative nature of university scholars. This year’s series will acknowledge, reward and support the culture of research at Kent State University.
- Posted May. 4, 2010 -
Dr. C.C. Lu Awarded a $34,997 KSU Research Challenge Grant
Dr. C.C. Lu, Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded a 1-year $34,997 KSU Research Challenge Grant for the project entitled "MRI-Based Attenuation Correction for PET/MRI and Medical Image Registration Methods on Graphics Processing Units"
- Posted Apr. 29, 2010 -
Kent State Presents Computer Science Discovery Day on May 1
The Department of Computer Science at Kent State University is hosting a Computer Science Discovery Day on Saturday, May 1. Accepted, prospective and interested students, along with their friends and family members, can learn more about the exciting possibilities of studying computer science at Kent State. The activities begin at 10 a.m. in the Mathematics and Computer Science Building, which is adjacent to the first parking lot east of the Student Center parking lot on Summit Street.
- Posted Apr. 27, 2010 -
International Standard project initiative
As part of an ISO International Standard initiative, IAL member Sue Ellen Wright has spearheaded a major international project involving several Translation Studies PhD students. She serves as chair of the Data Category Registry Board (DCRB) for the ISOcat metadata registry. The project, which involves the creation of a component linked to the creation of the Semantic Web, is being conducted in coordination with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and is funded by the European Union CLARIN project. For information, go to http://www.isocat.org.
- Posted Apr. 23, 2010 -
Kent State Poetry Project Highlights Peace Themes
As Kent State University prepares for the 40th commemoration of the events of May 4, 1970, the university’s Wick Poetry Center is promoting peace and reconciliation through an innovative community collaboration.
- Posted Apr. 21, 2010 -
Clinical Assessment PhD program top ranked
Kent State's program ranked in top 5 based on research productivity and impact.
- Posted Apr. 20, 2010 -
Kent State’s Patrick Coy Receives Fulbright Scholar Award
Dr. Patrick G. Coy, director and associate professor at the Center for Applied Conflict Management of Kent State University and resident of Peninsula, Ohio, has won a Fulbright Scholar Award to Botswana for the 2010-2011 academic year. Coy will be posted at the University of Botswana in Gabarone.
- Posted Apr. 19, 2010 -
Kent State Hosts Maj. Ian Rutherford, April 20
Kent State University’s Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies announces its spring semester program. The center’s speaker will be Maj. Ian Rutherford, who is an assistant professor at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC) teaching courses in Canadian politics, international studies and strategic studies. He is also concurrently serving as the Canadian Forces’ Visiting Defense Fellow at the Queen’s University Centre for International Relations.
- Posted Apr. 16, 2010 -
John Updegraff awarded NIDCR grant to improve oral health
2-year grant will develop strategies to improve adherence to oral health behaviors.
- Posted Apr. 16, 2010 -
Kent State Presents Ohio Employee Ownership Conference
Kent State University presents the 24th Ohio Employee Ownership Conference on Friday, April 30, at the Hilton West in Fairlawn, Ohio. This year’s conference theme is “Going Forward With a Vision,” inspired by the untimely death last winter of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center’s founder and director, John Logue.
- Posted Apr. 15, 2010 -
Ph.D. Student helps improve Kyrgyzstan's governing capacity
Askat Dukenbaev was recently hired by the Soros Foundation to head up efforts in Kyrgyzstan to improve the public administration in the country. His dissertation research is also center on public sector capacity in the Kyrgyzstan.
- Posted Apr. 14, 2010 -
Saturday 1 May 2010 "Computer Science Discovery Day"
What: Computer Science Discovery Day;
Who: for Accepted Students, Prospective Students, and Interested Students;
When: 9:40am - 3:00pm, Saturday 1 May 2010;
Where: various locations in the Mathematics and Computer Science Building
- Posted Apr. 14, 2010 -
Chemistry Professor Receives A&S Distinguished Teacher Award
Dr. Mietek Jaroniec is a recipient of a 2009-2010 A&S Distinguished Teacher Award.
- Posted Apr. 13, 2010 -
Kent State’s Foreign Language Academy Expands Program
Kent State University’s Foreign Language Academy received a combined total of $197,795 in federal grants for 2010. The Foreign Language Academy and its workshops focus on enriching high school students’ and teachers’ capabilities of learning and grasping world languages that are not widely taught in the United States.
- Posted Apr. 12, 2010 -
Lecture by Peter Bush, Monday April 11, 2010, 3:00 p.m. Sat
Peter Bush, an award-winning literary translator from Catalan, French, Portuguese, and Spanish, has translated over fifty novels and screenplays including Pedro Almodovar’s The Flower of My Secret and numerous thrillers from Spain and Spanish America. The lecture is sponsored by the IAL and the Wick Poetry Center.
- Posted Apr. 7, 2010 -
Ashtabula Campus professor stays busy reading his poetry
The poetry of Associate Professor of English Roger Craik is not only in demand, it is, once again, award-winning.
- Posted Apr. 6, 2010 -
Kent State's African Community Theatre Presents "The Sirens"
The African Community Theatre of Kent State University will present its Spring 2010 production of “The Sirens” by Richard Wesley and directed by Dr. Fran Dorsey. The theatre is located at 225 Terrace Drive in Oscar Ritchie Hall on the Kent State campus in Kent, Ohio.
- Posted Apr. 2, 2010
