Workshops
Meet up with other graduate students to tour the Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair exhibit at the Kent State University Museum. We will meet outside the museum at 2 p.m.
Join the Division of Graduate Studies and past Three Minute Thesis (3MT) award recipients at the Three Minute Thesis Workshop: Tips for Communicating your Research to learn more about this year’s 3MT competition and receive advice for preparing a successful presentation. The information session will be hosted via Microsoft Teams. We hope to see you there!
Art historian and curator Key Jo Lee (Cleveland Museum of Art) and TEXTURES artist Nontsikelelo Mutiti join co-curator Joseph L. Underwood in a conversation about Mutiti's recent projects in art and design, including her site-specific installation at the KSU Museum.
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Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Cassamance #2, 2020
Join us for a special keynote address and to celebrate the grand opening of the new Brain Health Research Institute Collaboratories and Research Labs.
Keynote Presentation by Earl Miller, ’85, Ph.D.
One Journey from 20th to 21st Century Neuroscience
3-4 p.m. - Kent State University KIVA
Earl Miller, Ph.D., graduated from Kent State University in 1985 and later earned a Master of Arts degree and Ph.D. in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University. He is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on neural mechanisms of cognitive, or executive, control. Dr. Miller is the Picower Professor of Neuroscience with the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the chief scientist and co-founder of SplitSage.
Labs and Collaboratory Grand Opening and Reception
4 p.m.
Integrated Sciences Building - Lobby
1175 Lefton Esplanade, Kent, OH 44242
The Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI) is a collaborative effort that taps passionate faculty members from across the university – not just in science-based departments, but in social sciences, the arts and humanities – to bring together their unique strengths as they step up to solve these brain-related challenges and more.
Following a brief program, there will be a reception, tours and student researcher demonstrations.
Upon arrival, attendees will enjoy a casual reception to catch up with fellow alumni and a complimentary buffet. A cash bar will also be available.
Afterwards, it’s time to tee off! You’ll simply sign up for a spot in one of our reserved bays until 4 p.m. Up to six people can play in the same bay.
So get ready to don your blue and gold, drive on out and tee up for an afternoon of great company, reminiscing and fun!
Cost: $25 per person (includes buffet and golf; also, a portion of this will be donated to support scholarships for our outstanding Kent State students).
The deadline to purchase tickets is Nov. 5. Space is limited; reserve your ticket(s) today!
Stop by Cartwright Hall to grab a cup of coffee and mingle with other graduate student parents!
Stop by Cartwright Hall to grab a cup of coffee and mingle with other graduate student parents!
The College of Arts & Sciences is hosting a photo contest to celebrate our first-generation students during the I AM FIRST Celebration Week!
The "I Am First Pride" photo contest will be held from Monday, November 8 - Friday, November 12. During this time, students are encouraged to take a photo demonstrating their school spirit and pride in being a first-generation student. To enter the contest, post your picture to Instagram, follow and tag @kentstatecas, and use the hashtag #iamfirstgen. All participating students will be entered to win one of two book scholarships!
Additionally, the college will be hosting our annual "Red Carpet" event for our first-generation students on Wednesday, November 10 from 1:00pm - 3:00pm. Any first-generation Arts & Sciences student is welcome to come 'walk the red carpet' and take a picture with Flash and receive either a “Star” trophy or sunglasses to commemorate the occasion. The first 50 students that attend will also receive a free I AM First t-shirt. The event will be hosted in Bowman Hall first floor across from the café.
Rules and guidelines to participate in the photo contest are as follows:
- You must be a first-generation student in the College of Arts & Sciences to participate.
- Your Instagram account must be public in order for us to see your entry
- You must tag and follow @kentstatecas and use the hashtag #iamfirstgen to be entered in the book scholarship drawing.
- Winner will be chosen at random.
- University colors are encouraged but not required.
- Students are welcome to use one of the backgrounds available here, but this is not required.
- Photos illustrating profanity, inappropriate gestures/signs, alcohol use, or illegal substances will not be entered.
- Submissions can be entered between Monday, November 8 at 8:00 am until Friday, November 12 at 5:00 pm.
- By entering in the contest, you grant Kent State the right to use the photo for future marketing purposes.
- This contest is not sponsored by or associated with Instagram.
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Award winning artist and beloved professor, Janice Lessman-Moss is renowned for her intricate weavings. The Kent State University Museum exhibition, Dancing with the Distance showcases more than thirty of her works. The weavings, which span a period of twenty years, display the evolution of her craft and were created on a variety of different looms from hand looms to digital jacquards and power looms. Her mastery of technology extends not just to the use of high-powered looms for weaving but also to the design of the patterns. She creates her elaborate layering of circles and sinuous lines on the computer using Adobe Photoshop. The designs are then converted into the final work by a combination of painting and dyeing the threads and programming the woven pattern into the loom. The weavings are masterful in their technical brilliance but also engrossing in their visual appeal. Lessman-Moss’s work as an artist has constantly been informed by her work as a professor. Her exploration of different technologies has enabled her to teach generations of students not simply how to weave but how to create art that responds to the possibilities of the loom.
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition was designed by Aoife Mooney, associate professor of visual communication design at Kent State, with essay contributions by Dr. Shana Klein, art historian and assistant professor in Kent State’s School of Art, Marianne Fairbanks, artist and assistant professor of design studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dr. Sara Hume, professor and curator at the KSU Museum. A video accompanying the exhibition was created in collaboration with Kent State University TeleProductions.
Dancing with the Distance is made possible by the generous support of Dr. Linda L. McDonald and the Ohio Arts Council.
Press
- WAKR's This Week in Tech explores the intersection of art and technology with professor Janice Lessman-Moss
- Ideastream Public Media sat down with artist and professor Janice Lessman-Moss to learn more about her artwork and creative process
- Currents looks at the impacts of technology on fashion design
Dancing with the Distance: A Conversation with artist Janice Lessman-Moss and Curator, Sara Hume
Join curator Sara Hume and artist Janice Lessman-Moss for this conversation as they reflect on Lessman-Moss’s career as an artist and professor, the inspiration behind her work and the exhibition Dancing with the Distance, on view at the Kent State University Museum.
California, San Diego. She is currently a Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego, where she serves as the Director for the Center for
Educational Excellence.
Dr. Nunn is best known for her important work in student belonging. She is the author of College Belonging and 33 Simple Strategies: A Week-by-Week Resource for Teaching First-Year and First-Generation Students. She focuses on the struggle that students experience as they transition from high school to university life. Her books provide practical tools that faculty can use to foster greater academic belonging with their students.
Session 1
Fostering College Belonging
How could colleges foster a greater sense of belonging for students? Understanding how belonging happens in classrooms (academic belonging) and in campus cultures (campus-community belonging) allows everyone to comprehend the significant roles we represent in the lived experiences of students.
January 11, 2022 (In-Person) 11:00am to 12:30pm | Via Zoom
Session 2
Building a Toolkit for Fostering Academic Belonging
Building on session 1, join us for a deeper dive into concrete, practical strategies faculty can use in their teaching and interactions with
students to foster college belonging.
January 11, 2022 (In-Person) 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Via Zoom
Event is Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Center for Teaching and Learning
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