Loose change, bake sales and restaurant discounts all helped lead up to the grand finale of fundraisers that benefit people with hearing loss. Kent State University’s Greek organizations pulled together for the seventh annual Lip Sync contest this past weekend. Cleveland.com featured the event that included songs, skits and sign language. Read more on Cleveland.com. (Photo credit: Penell Paglialunga) ...

The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, March 11. The Board will convene at 2:30 p.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of the Kent Campus Library. Trustees will retire into executive session as part of a working lunch at 11:30 a.m. to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” Trustees will meet as a Committee of the Whole from 8-10 a.m. This will be followed by Board standing committee meetings as follows: Academic Excellence and Student ...

Kent State University has earned the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus USA recognition for its commitment to effective urban forest management for the seventh consecutive year.  Tree Campus USA, a national program launched in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation and Toyota, honors colleges and universities and their leaders for promoting healthy trees and engaging students and staff in the spirit of conservation. “Every year, we aim for the continued recognition of Tree Campus USA,” said Heather White, grounds manager of University Facilities Management at Kent State. To obtain this disti...

State Rep. Kathleen Clyde, who represents central and southern Portage County in Ohio’s 75th District, met with 30 of Kent State University’s Choose Ohio First scholarship students on Feb. 13 at the Kent Student Center to discuss a wide range of issues. The Choose Ohio First Scholarship Program provides scholarship support to Ohio residents who wish to pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering, mathematics or medicine (STEMM). The state of Ohio, recognizing that a workforce trained in these areas is essential for strengthening its economy, created the program to provide tuition suppo...

MEDIA ADVISORY Kent State University’s 2015 Homecoming Scheduled for Oct. 3 WHAT:  Kent State University will celebrate its 2015 Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 3. The Golden Flashes will take on the Miami University RedHawks at Dix Stadium. Other activities will include the Homecoming parade, the annual alumni continental breakfast and parade viewing party, the alumni spirit party, Kiss on the K and much more.  Visit www.ksualumni.org/homecoming for event updates and to see highlights from Kent State’s 2014 Homecoming. WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 3 WHERE: Kent State University, Kent Ca...

A. Bathi Kasturiarachi, Ph.D., has been named Kent State University at Stark’s new assistant dean of academic affairs. Serving as interim assistant dean since August 2013, Kasturiarachi accepted the permanent position on February 27, 2015. “Dr. Kasturiarachi is a well-respected researcher and educator,” says Denise A. Seachrist, Ph.D., interim dean and chief administrative officer of Kent State Stark. “His strong administrative talents make him the ideal person for this position.” In addition to assisting Dean Seachrist, Kasturiarachi is charged with directing and recruiting campus faculty, ...

Kent State researchers recently completed a pioneering office-based hand-hygiene improvement intervention which reduced common communicable illness by close to a third.  This was the first U.S. pilot randomized cluster trial of its kind, and findings were published in the prominent Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.    “The workplace is considered a key location to reach the public in slowing the spread of disease, since employees spend more than half their waking hours at work, in close proximity and sharing equipment,” explains Maggie Stedman-Smith, as...