Mamoun Alzoubi, Department of English, presented a paper, “Richard Wright and Transnationalism: A Reading of Pagan Spain,” at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 26-29, 2016, in San Francisco, California.
Mamoun Alzoubi, Department of English

Kent State University recently concluded its largest fundraising year in school history after securing $38.9 million in private support during Fiscal Year 2017.
Online final grading for fall 2017 First Half Semester (H1) begins Wednesday, Oct. 18, via FlashFAST. Grading also is now available for any fall 2017 course section that was flexibly scheduled. The deadline for grading submission is midnight on Tuesday, Oct. 24. Any final grades for fall 2017 courses not reported in FlashFAST by the grades processing deadline will have to be submitted using the Grade Change Workflow. These fall 2017 courses will be available in the Workflow on Thursday, Oct. 26.

Kent State University President Beverly Warren has named Judge Carla Moore the 2017-18 President’s Ambassador.

Kent State University professors discuss the importance of funding collegiate research.

A team at Kent State University at Ashtabula has started a Digital Commons collection to showcase the Ohio wine industry.

Kent State University employee Mark van ‘t Hooft, Ph.D., took to the Netherlands for four days this summer and walked 125 miles in the largest multiday marching event in the world.

Kent State’s College of Nursing has been awarded $1.1 million grant to expand the behavioral health workforce in rural and underserved areas.
Kent State University Alumni Association Announces 51st Annual Distinguished Teaching Award Nominees
Ten finalists have been chosen from a pool of more than 200 nominees for the 51st annual Kent State University Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award.
The Kent State University Alumni Association recognizes Kent State faculty members with this award annually. The Distinguished Teaching Award is the most esteemed honor that Kent State grants to three full-time, tenure-track faculty members. In order to be nominated, faculty members must have been employed at the university for at least seven years and be in a tenured or tenure-track position.
Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives, was part of a group that presented “Preserving the Spark: Challenges in Archiving Activist Movements” at the Society of American Archivists’ annual conference in Portland, Oregon, on July 28, 2017.
Yanhai Du, College of Aeronautics and Engineering, has the following patents.
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