It’s a Saturday morning in 1981. Sunbeams slowly trickle into a small family tent, covered in sparkling morning dew. The sounds of a campfire crackle in the ears of a then 7-year-old Amanda Cox. Yawning and wiping the sleep from her eyes, she unzips the tent, filling her lungs with the crisp, fresh air of a new day – the Rocky Mountain view just as glorious as the day before. This was a normal weekend for Cox and her family – camping in the mountains not far from where they lived in Colorado Springs. And it was something that would carve a path in her heart like the winding Colorado Rive...
Jessica Conrad, Ph.D., a lecturer of English at Kent State University at Stark, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Austria. The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced that Conrad will lecture and research at the University of Graz as part of her project, “Perspectives of American Protest Literature and Culture from Abroad.” Conrad’s project traces connections between historical examples of early American literary activism to current cultural expressions of protest, particularly in social justice and climate activi...
Image by Daniel Friesenecker from Pixabay Recent funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has given interdisciplinary researchers the opportunity to help drive our understanding of patterns in nature when bringing together big data sources collected in different ways. The NSF awarded Christie Bahlai, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, a grant to expand her research to better understand how biodiversity patterns unfold over time. In recent years, the insect decline phenomenon has made headlines: seve...
The sun was setting over a little Stow neighborhood in 1995. Eight-year-old Jennifer Daring knew it meant she would have to go inside soon. That was her mother’s rule: be home by dusk. But Daring was always pushing it. Just a little later. Just a little more time. Just a few more minutes outside to catch the lightning bugs dotting her grandma’s front yard at dusk. Just a second more to collect caterpillars and watch them become something new. For Daring, outside felt like home. And some things never change. At 34, Daring is still always outside – hiking, biking, rock climbing, kayakin...
The sun was setting over a little Stow neighborhood in 1995. Eight-year-old Jennifer Daring knew it meant she would have to go inside soon. That was her mother’s rule: be home by dusk. But Daring was always pushing it. Just a little later. Just a little more time. Just a few more minutes outside to catch the lightning bugs dotting her grandma’s front yard at dusk. Just a second more to collect caterpillars and watch them become something new. For Daring, outside felt like home. And some things never change. At 34, Daring is still always outside – hiking, biking, rock climbin...
Hector McDaniel, president of Stark County NAACP, to give keynote address. Kent State University at Stark graduates are set to take Canton’s biggest stage May 14 during an in-person commencement ceremony at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium. View Commencement Ceremony Website Stark County’s only public university is honored to celebrate its newest graduates and mark the return of an in-person commencement – the first since December 2019. “We are the county’s Hometown University, and we are happy to commemorate the occasion in a special way – in a landmark that’s synonymous with our region,” s...
While other Copley High School students went to Friday night football games and dreamed about prom, Leah Miller had her sights set on what lay ahead. In both middle and high school, Miller took advanced courses. By the time she completed her sophomore year, she had earned nearly all her high school credits, setting her up perfectly to begin College Credit Plus (CCP), a program designed to allow college-ready students, who qualify for college admission, the opportunity to earn college credits. Miller’s interest was piqued by CCP when her older brother participated in the program as ...
The 2021 Staff Excellence Awards celebrated shining examples of dedication to students and the campus community during a year eclipsed by the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 30, nominees gathered at the Conference Center for a small ceremony, also broadcast live on the Teams platform. “You have worked diligently to ensure our campus has not only survived – but thrived – during a global pandemic,” said Denise A. Seachrist, Ph.D., dean and chief administrative officer at Kent State University at Stark. “We eagerly look forward to a fall 2021 semester in which students will be, once again, trav...
Is there anything quite as exciting and fulfilling as following your passion and getting to use the latest technologies to do it? When you find both early in your career you have hit the proverbial jackpot. Finding himself in what he describes as “a great time to be in the field” of evolutionary biology, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Ph.D., could not be more excited about what he hopes to accomplish in Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences. He joined Kent State in August 2019 as an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, teaches the Introduction to Genomics cours...
Starting in Semester Fall 2021 , the Department of Pan-African Studies will offer all Kent State University graduate students the option of taking three courses leading to a new graduate minor degree in Race, Gender and Social Justice (RGSJ) at the Kent Campus. Pending approval by the Kent State University Board of Trustees, the department will also change its name to the Department of Africana Studies. This is the first graduate minor ever offered by Kent State and is specifically designed for students who are currently enrolled in any graduate degree program across the university. Undergr...