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Two Kent State Collaborators Win Oral History Association Award for Work on May 4, 1970, Voices Documentary
Dec. 1, 2014
The documentary film May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970, created by two Kent State University collaborators, is a recipient of the 2014 Oral History Association’s Oral History in a Nonprint Format Award. The Oral History Association is an organization that seeks to bring together…
Read More »Two Kent State Collaborators Win Oral History Association Award for Work on May 4th Voices Documentary
Nov. 18, 2014
The documentary film May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970, created by Kenneth Bindas, Ph.D., professor and chair of the history department, and David Hassler, the director of the Wick Poetry Center, is a recipient of the 2014 Oral History Association’s Oral History in a Nonprint…
Read More »Rewriting Russian History
Nov. 17, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration has slowly changed the way Soviet history is taught in Russia, according to Todd Nelson, Ph.D., a recent Kent State University political science doctoral graduate. In his recent article, published in Post-Soviet Affairs,…
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Geography Awareness Week
Nov. 4, 2014
November 16-22 Too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens. National Geographic created Geography Awareness Week to raise awareness to this dangerous deficiency in American…
Read More »Five College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Honored
Nov. 3, 2014
On October 24, six Kent State educators (five from the College of Arts and Sciences) were honored for their achievements in the classroom during the 21st annual Celebrating College Teaching Conference. Three faculty members received the Kent State University Alumni Association'…
Read More »Kent State’s SOLE Center to Host Summit on Learning and Education
Oct. 30, 2014
Kent State University’s Science of Learning and Education (SOLE) Center will host “Improving Student Achievement: A Summit on Learning and Education” at the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center in Kent, Ohio, on Oct. 9-10. Researchers from across the country (and…
Read More »Monitoring Lake Erie’s Algae From Space
Oct. 30, 2014
Over the vast expanse of Lake Erie, sampling the water to test for potentially toxic algae blooms may seem like using a medicine dropper in an ocean. It takes days to collect enough data from enough spots to determine if the algae pose a danger.
Read More »Can Fireworks Damage Mount Rushmore?
Oct. 30, 2014
For Kent State University Professor of Geology Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., studying the stability of Mount Rushmore, visited by nearly three million people each year, was a lifelong dream. So, in 2013, with the help of his graduate student, Lindsay Poluga, the two of them reached out…
Read More »Speaker to Discuss the Holocaust in Poland
Oct. 28, 2014
The Kent State University Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences will host a presentation by Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Ph.D., a social anthropologist at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland on Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Cohn Jewish Student Center on the…
Read More »Institute for African American Affairs Lunch & Learn Series
Oct. 22, 2014
The Department Of Pan-African Studies Presents: Institute for African American Affairs (IAAA) Lunch & Learn Series All Lunch & Learn events are on Wednesdays from 12pm-1pm in Ritchie Hall Conference Room 127 October 22, 2014 "Introducing Pacific Islanders" presented…
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