The Kent State University Retirees’ Association (KSURA) sponsors monthly presentations about topics of interest to retirees, as well as to the academic community of Kent State and the public. These presentations are free and open to anyone who wishes to attend. On Wednesday, Jan. 17, from 3-5 p.m., physics professor and former director of the Liquid Crystal Institute, Dr. Oleg Lavrentovich, will make a presentation about the significant contribution made by Kent State faculty to the development of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) technology, which has become the dominant type of display scre...
he home base for Kent State University was named among the top two college towns in the U.S. (defined as a city with at least 20% of the population enrolled in higher education) by online real estate platform Zillow, coming in second to West Chester, Pennsylvania. Among the list of Top 10 most popular markets on Zillow this year were two other Northeast Ohio locations: Twinsburg (where the Kent State Twinsburg Academic Center just happens to be located) and Stow, a neighboring community to our beloved college town and home of the Kent State University Airport. Vermillion, Ohio, wa...
Happy Holidays from Kent State University at Stark! The campus will be closed for winter break Friday, Dec. 22, 2023, through Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. Buildings and offices will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, during regular business hours. Everyone at Kent State Stark wishes you a joyous and healthy holiday season. ...
The Training & Development team appreciates your input as we continue to improve the orientation and onboarding process. Because of your feedback so far, we are again changing the day and time of orientations so that they best fit the schedule of as many employees as possible. Coming January 2024 Orientations will continue to alternate between virtual and in-person sessions. This has allowed us to be flexible with regional campus new hires and second- and third-shift employees. Beginning January 2024, we will return to morning sessions, which we have learned is the opti...
Thirty-three Kent State University faculty members have been named in the 2% of most-cited scientists in the world based on a recently updated study published by Stanford University scholars, illustrating Kent State’s top-tier research status. Top 2 % in the World The report is based on the Oct. 1, 2023, snapshot from Scopus, updated to end of citation year 2022. Scopus is an abstract and indexing database produced by the Elsevier Co. The top 2% includes the top 100,000 most cited scientists as determined by a composite citation score or “c-score” foc...
The Division of People, Culture and Belonging seeks strategic leaders to serve as Associate Vice President for Culture and Belonging and Associate Vice President for People and Culture (Human Resources). These two positions will report to Vice President Amoaba Gooden and provide executive-level leadership for several units within the division. Kent State University is deeply committed to creating a diverse and inclusive community for faculty, staff and students. In September 2023, the divisions of Human Resources and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion merged to create the new Division of Peopl...
Header photo is one of the forest restoration sites at Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Photo by Robert Boyd. An innovative research project at Kent State University promises to make significant contributions to the field of forest recovery assessment and environmental conservation. Robert Boyd, a first-year ecology and evolutionary biology master's student in the Bahlai Lab of Applied Computational Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Kent State, is making significant strides in a pioneering research project titled "Novel Monitoring Strategies to Assess Fores...
Online final grading for Fall 2023 (POT 1, F3, W2) begins Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, via FlashFAST. Grading is also now available for any Fall 2023 course section that was flexibly scheduled. The deadline for grading submission is 11:59 pm on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. Any final grades for Fall 2023 courses not reported in FlashFAST by the grades processing deadline will have to be submitted using the Grade Change Workflow. These Fall 2023 courses will be available in the Workflow on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. Submit Final grades using Final Grades roster To submit final grades via the Final Grade...
Kent Wired Article by Kayla Gleason By Kayla Gleason, Kent Wired December 1, 2023 Emma Van WinkleStudents trying to figure out what they want at the Her Campus thrift store event on Nov. 30, 2023. The university’s chapter of Her Campus, an online magazine designed to empower college women, ran a thrift and craft sale in the Student Center Thursday afternoon.Previously, the organization held four thrift sales since the fall 2022 semester, where members and external entities donated clothes to the sale.Aislinn Foran, Her Campus president and junior communications major,...
By Jan Senn It’s been almost 10 years since geography professor David Kaplan, PhD, first proposed the idea of starting an interdisciplinary environmental studies major at Kent State. Now it’s one of the fastest-growing majors at the university, with a group of enthusiastic and motivated students and alumni prepared to address the environmental issues facing our world. The following observations are from three environmental studies events this year. August 18, 2023 ENVS Opening Meeting Room 302, McGilvrey Hall 3 p.m. Matthew Arkwright, a junior in the Environmental Studies Pro...