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

Poetry kiosks written for Traveling Stanzas through Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center have found their home in downtown Kent for months and recently expanded to eight Kent Campus locations.
Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., School of Information, co-presented a session titled “Promoting Neutrality or Privilege? Academic Libraries and Critical Librarianship” at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference in Wilmington, Ohio, on Oct. 28, 2016.
Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., School of Information, was co-presenter and facilitator of a half-day workshop titled “Building Curriculum for Linked Data Education” on Oct. 15, 2016, at the DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., School of Information, published an article titled “Privacy and Trust Attitudes in the Intent to Volunteer for Data-tracking Research” in Information Research, Vol. 21, No. 4.

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Mark L. Lewis
Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Kent Campus

When someone suffers a stroke, traumatic brain injury or brain tumor, one of the common symptoms is aphasia, a disorder that arises from damage to portions of the brain, usually the left side, that are responsible for language. It impairs the expression and understanding of language, as well as reading and writing.
Researchers in Professor Philip Bos’ laboratory at Kent State University's Liquid Crystal Institute® and the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently published the results of their collaborative development of advanced liquid crystal devices that can steer a beam of laser light without physical motion.
Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., associate professor in Kent State University’s School of Information (iSchool), has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach at the University of Zadar in Croatia for the Fall 2017 Semester. She will teach a course she created, Current Issues in Document/ation Studies, guest lecture in other courses, participate in several conferences and advise students.
Did you know the Campus Kitchen at Kent State prepares an average of 350 meals each week for individuals facing food insecurity in our local community? In the past year, more than 3,000 individuals assisted with meal prep and food delivery programs at the Campus Kitchen at Kent State.
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