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

A pair of Kent State University geographers have teamed up to secure two research grants totaling more than $550,000 for separate projects to study climate change and weather patterns.

Kent State University’s Giving Tuesday 2017 doubled the 2016 campaign – hitting more than $1 million just before midnight on Tuesday, Nov. 28. Please watch Kent State President Beverly Warren's heartfelt thank you video to learn just how much of an impact donors' generous support made on Giving Tuesday.
Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, University Libraries, Department of Special Collections and Archives; Elizabeth Smith-Pryor, Department of History; and Jacky Johnson presented “WOKE Since 1960s: How Student Activism Has Shaped the Nation” at the 102nd annual meeting and conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Sept. 27, 2017.
Alfred Guiffrida, Management and Information Systems, and Jay Brown authored “Stochastic Modeling of the Last Mile Problem for Delivery Fleet Planning” in Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, 56(2), 2017, 93-108.


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Attend a Title IX faculty and staff workshop to learn how to “See It! State It! Stop It!”
Visit http://goo.gl/OSNY7x to register. This workshop counts toward one hour of Beyond Compliance training.
The Akron Symphony Orchestra will present Home for the Holidays with Helen Welch on Dec. 8 at E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall. The evening will feature holiday favorites and traditional carols.
Recent research has uncovered that up to 5 percent of the DNA of many modern humans originated from ancient interbreeding with Neanderthal populations. This raises the broader question of whether a species' genetic makeup includes genes brought together through occasional episodes of hybridization. Are we an amalgamation of DNA from a variety of interbreeding species? Did such hybridization happen throughout the 7 million years of human evolution? “Occasionally,” says Anthony J.
At Kent State University, we are committed to ensuring the quality of our academic programs, our teaching and the learning experiences of our students. Student feedback on courses and instructors is pivotal for helping to design courses and curriculum.
Flash Survey is Kent State’s end-of-course student survey for online courses.
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