News and Accomplishments Archive

News and Accomplishments

• Kent State Wins Prestigious Gold SABRE Award for “Experience for Life†TV Campaign Kent State University earned a Gold SABRE Award for its “Experience for Life†television campaign at the Americas 2013 SABRE Awards that took place on May 7 in New York City.
  - Posted May. 15, 2013
• Trustee and Alumnus Richard Marsh to Lead Kent State Presidential Search Committee The search for Kent State University’s 12th president became official today (May 14, 2013) when the university’s Board of Trustees named Trustee and Kent State alumnus Richard H. Marsh to serve as chair of a broad-based presidential search committee.
  - Posted May. 14, 2013
• ADVISORY: Kent State University Board of Trustees Meeting, May 14 The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Tuesday, May 14. The Board will convene at 2 p.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of the Kent Campus Library.
  - Posted May. 9, 2013
• Kent State School of Art's Downtown Gallery Presents "Capture: Photographs by Drew Smith" The Kent State University School of Art’s Downtown Gallery will present “Capture: Photographs by Drew Smith†from May 22 through June 15. The Downtown Gallery is located at 141 E. Main Street in Kent, Ohio. The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, May 23, from 5-7 p.m. The opening reception is free and open to the public.
  - Posted May. 9, 2013
• Kent State's School of Journalism and Mass Communication to Host Second Kent Multimedia Workshop, June 6-8 Kent State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication will host its second Kent Multimedia Workshop – a three-day, hands-on video and photography multimedia storytelling workshop – June 6-8 in Franklin Hall on the Kent Campus.
  - Posted May. 3, 2013
• Kent State Program Makes Paid Internships Available to Freshman and Sophomore Math or Science Majors The Kent State University Robert Noyce Summer Internship Program is available to freshman and sophomore math or science majors. Noyce interns will be paid $450 per week for four weeks in June-July 2013 depending on students’ schedule and site.
  - Posted May. 2, 2013
• Kent State Announces Events for 43rd Annual Commemoration of May 4 Kent State University will hold its 43rd annual commemoration of May 4, 1970, with events taking place from May 2-5. The annual commemoration provides an avenue for the university community to come together to remember those lost and injured during the tragedy and also to reflect on the meaning of May 4 for today.
  - Posted Apr. 29, 2013
• Long-Serving Faculty Member Yoost Awarded for Work with Kent State Honors Students Kent State University College of Nursing faculty member Barbara L. Yoost, MSN, RN, CNS, CNE, ANEF, received the Distinguished Honors Faculty Award for 2013 for her work with nursing honors students.
  - Posted May. 13, 2013
• Groundbreaking for Kent State’s Field House Locker Room Project Takes Place May 3 The groundbreaking for Kent State University’s Field House Locker Room project will take place at 9 a.m. on Friday, May 3, at the Kent State Field House located at 2227 Summit St. in Kent, Ohio.
  - Posted Apr. 26, 2013
• Kent State’s Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies Awarded $400,000 in Grants Kent State University professors Brian Baer, Ph.D., and Theresa Minick, from the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, have been awarded nearly $400,000 in grants to fund the 2013 Foreign Language Student Academy and the Teacher Leadership Academy at the university.
  - Posted Apr. 24, 2013
• Kent State Hosts its Inaugural Neuroscience Symposium on April 29 Kent State University hosts its inaugural Neuroscience Symposium “The Neuroscience of Mental Health†on April 29 from 9:30 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva on the Kent Campus.
  - Posted Apr. 22, 2013
• Writing Commons Hosts Workshop for Area Schools - Spring 2013 Tutors at the Writing Commons facilitated a workshop for high school students nominated by their teachers to become writing center tutors in their schools on Sunday, April 21, 2013.
  - Posted Apr. 21, 2013
• Kent State Hosts 39th Annual Meonske Accounting Conference, April 25-26 The Ohio Council of the Institute of Management Accountants will host its 39th annual Meonske Accounting Professional Development Conference and Workshop on April 25-26 at Kent State University.
  - Posted Apr. 19, 2013
• Kent State Senior Selected to Serve on Steering Committee for National Campus Leadership Council Evan Gildenblatt, a Kent State University senior from Cincinnati majoring in applied conflict management and executive director of Kent State’s Undergraduate Student Government, was selected to serve on the 2013 Steering Committee for the National Campus Leadership Council (NCLC).
  - Posted Apr. 15, 2013
• Owners of Successful Snack Dip Business to Speak at Kent State’s Michael D. Solomon Entrepreneurship Speaker Series David and Nique Mealey, owners of Back 9 Dips, will present their entrepreneurial success story at the Michael D. Solomon Entrepreneurship Speaker Series on Tuesday, April 16, at 6:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. The event is free and open to the public.
  - Posted Apr. 11, 2013
• Kent State’s Fashion School Spring Fashion Show Highlights Cream of the Crop Design Students, April 27 Kent State University’s Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising will celebrate its 30th anniversary during the 2013 Fashion School Fashion Show, “FS2†on Saturday, April 27, at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. at the E. Turner Stump Theatre in the Music and Speech Building on 1325 Theatre Drive at the Kent Campus.
  - Posted Apr. 9, 2013
• Limited Number of Elie Wiesel Tickets Available for April 11 Event at Kent State A limited number of $50 tickets for Nobel Peace Prize winner and Boston University Professor Elie Wiesel’s appearance at Kent State University has been released and is available for purchase. Wiesel will speak at the second Kent State University Presidential Speaker Series on Thursday, April 11, at 7 p.m., at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center on the Kent Campus.
  - Posted Apr. 4, 2013
• MEDIA ADVISORY: Kent State Presidential Speaker Series Presents An Evening With Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel Nobel Peace Prize winner and Boston University Professor Elie Wiesel will speak at the second Kent State University Presidential Speaker Series on Thursday, April 11, at 7 p.m., at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center) on the Kent Campus. Media are welcome to cover the event.
  - Posted Apr. 4, 2013
• Kent State Announces Winning Architecture Team for University’s New, $40 Million Architecture Building After holding a competition that drew the interest of internationally recognized architects, the architecture team that will design the new $40 million building for Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design has been determined.
  - Posted Apr. 2, 2013
• Kent State’s College of Public Health Awarded NSF Grant for Biofilm Research Kent State University’s College of Public Health recently received the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovation Grant while partnering with Sterionics Inc. for work on advancing and commercializing a wound therapy biotechnology product.
  - Posted Mar. 28, 2013
• Kent State’s Annual Virginia Hamilton Conference Features Authors Angela Johnson, Gary Schmidt and Yuyi Morales Kent State University’s 29th Annual Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth will be held on the evening of Thursday, April 4, and all day Friday, April 5, at the Kent Student Center. The conference provides a forum for discussion of multicultural themes and issues in literature for children and young adults.
  - Posted Mar. 25, 2013
• Kent State Named to National Honor Roll for Community Service Kent State University has been named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. This designation is the highest honor a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
  - Posted Mar. 25, 2013
• Kent State’s College of Public Health Fights Food Insecurity Through Community Food Drive The Kent State University College of Public Health announces its second annual food drive to benefit the Kent Social Service’s food pantry – The Lord’s Pantry.
  - Posted Mar. 20, 2013
• Kent State Wins at the 2013 Akron ADDY Awards Four Kent State University creative groups won awards at the 2013 Akron ADDY Awards. The competition was hosted by American Advertising Federation-Akron.
  - Posted Mar. 20, 2013
• Education is Key as Ohio Insurance Industry Launches Insuring Ohio Futures Career Awareness Program Insurance companies in Ohio face a dramatic shortage of career professionals, a talent gap that could harm the industry’s standing as an economic engine for the state. A public-private partnership is now taking concrete steps with the launch of Insuring Ohio Futures, the first effort in the nation designed to attract skilled workers to the insurance sector.
  - Posted Mar. 19, 2013
• Registration Open for the Spring 2013 Bowman Breakfast, April 16 The spring 2013 Bowman Breakfast will take place at Kent State University in the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Tuesday, April 16. The featured speaker is Roger Di Paolo, editor of The Record-Courier. Di Paolo will speak on the topic “Beyond Audacity: Celebrating 21st Century Kent.â€
  - Posted Mar. 18, 2013
• Film Director Oliver Stone, PBS News Anchor Gwen Ifill to Help Dedicate Kent State University’s May 4 Visitors Center Film director and producer Oliver Stone, and PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill will join Kent State University to mark its 43rd annual commemoration of May 4, 1970, with the dedication of the May 4 Visitors Center.
  - Posted Mar. 18, 2013
• Kent State’s College of Public Health Hosts the 71st Human Services Institute, March 25 The 71st Human Services Institute, Northeast Ohio’s longest-running institute focused on health and human services, comes to Kent State University from 10 a.m. to noon on March 25 in the Kent Student Center Kiva.
  - Posted Mar. 15, 2013
• Kent State School of Library and Information Science Advances in U.S. News & World Report Rankings The School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University has moved up in the rankings of the nation’s top schools of library and information studies, according to the latest edition (2014) of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.â€
  - Posted Mar. 15, 2013
• Kent State Recognizes Outstanding Research and Scholar Award Recipients on March 19 Three Kent State University faculty members will be recognized during a ceremony on March 19 as the university honors its Outstanding Research and Scholar Award recipients. The recipients of the 2013 award are Michael Loderstedt, School of Art; Katherine Rawson, Department of Psychology; and Carrie Schweitzer, Department of Geology, Kent State University at Stark.
  - Posted Mar. 14, 2013
• Kent State Designs First-of-its-Kind Graduate Program in Fashion Kent State University’s fashion school is leading the academic runway with the creation of a master of fashion degree that is the first of its kind in the nation. The university’s Board of Trustees formally approved the path-breaking graduate program today (March 13), allowing the university’s Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising to begin enrolling students for fall semester 2013, pending approval by the Ohio Board of Regents.
  - Posted Mar. 13, 2013
• Kent State’s College of Business Administration Holds Graduate Program Information Night Kent State University’s College of Business Administration will hold Graduate Programs Information Night on March 18 in Room 310 of the Kent Student Center on the Kent Campus, and a Stark MBA Night on March 21 in Room 234 of the University Center at Kent State University at Stark, from 6 to 8 p.m. on both evenings.
  - Posted Mar. 11, 2013
• Kent State’s MBA Team Wins Regional Competition Kent State University’s MBA team took home the grand prize in the Cleveland Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Competition that took place at the Union Club in Cleveland. The regional competition’s case focused on mergers and acquisitions.
  - Posted Mar. 8, 2013
• Innovation Triumphs at the 2013 Kent State Business Idea Competition Advancement in headgear technology and protection was recognized when Jake Wolfe, a Kent State University sophomore, won first place in the annual Kent State Business Idea Competition for his business, WolfeCon Cushioning Solutions.
  - Posted Mar. 7, 2013
• ADVISORY: Kent State University Board of Trustees Meeting, March 13 The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, March 13. The Board will convene at 1:45 p.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of the Kent Campus Library.
  - Posted Mar. 6, 2013

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