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    Kent State Selects Alison Smith as the New Dean of the Honors College

    Dr. Alison J. Smith

    Honors College
    Dean
    Campus:
    Kent
    Contact Information
    Email:
    alisonjs@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-8068
    Personal Website: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~alisonjs/ajsmith/

     

    "I have learned what a great powerhouse of energy and opportunities is centered here in the Honors College!"

                                                     -Dr. Alison J. Smith

     

    ALISON'S BACKGROUND:

    Hometown:  Wilmington, Delaware

    College/University Attended:  Wheaton College, Massachusetts (B.A.); Cambridge University (M. Phil.); University of Delaware (M.S.) and Brown University (Ph.D.)

    College Major(s):  B.A. in Anthropology, M. Phil. in Archaeology, M.S. in Geology and Ph.D. in Geology

     

    ALISON'S TOP 5 FAVORITES:

    1. Favorite part of working in the Honors College:  Staff and student energy!
    2. Favorite event/tradition on campus:  Honors Freshmen Welcome Picnic
    3. Favorite place on campus:  Flower garden by the library
    4. Favorite vacation destination:  Northern New England
    5. Favorite food:  The homemade soups at the Franklin Square Deli!

    Publications

    • Grigg, L.D., Engle, K.J., Smith, A.J., et. al., A multi-proxy reconstruction of climate during the late-Pleistocene to early Holocene transition in the northeastern, USA, Quaternary Research (2021) 1-17
    • Grimm, E.C., et al, 2018, Constituent databases and data stewards in the Neotomo Paleoecology Database: history, growth, and new directions, Past Global Changes Magazine, 26 (2), 64-65
    • Williams, J.W., Grimm, E.C., Blois, J., Charles, D., Davis, E., Goring, S., Graham, R., Smith, A.J., et al., 2018. The Neotoma Paleoecology Database: A multi-proxy, international community-curated data resource, Quaternary Research, 89:1, 156-177
    • Smith, A.J. and others, 2017. The contribution of Richard M. Forester to the knowledge of the paleohydrologic... An introduction to the Richard M. Forester memorial issue, Hydrobiologia, published online Sept. 6, 2016
    • Forester, R.M., Carter, C., Quade, J., Smith, A.J., 2017. Aquifer and surface-water ostracodes in Quaternary paleowetland deposits of southern Nevada, USA, Hydrobiologia, published online Sept 9, 2016
    • Rowell, C., Enache, M., Quinlan, R., Smith, A.J., Bloomfield, J., Charles, D., Effler, S., 2016, Quantitative paleolimnological inference models applied to a high resolution biostratigraphic study of lake degradation and recovery, Onondaga Lake, New York
    • Rowell, C., Enache, M., Quinlan, R., Smith, A.J., and others, 2016, Quantitative paleolimnological inference models applied to a high resolution…recovery, Onondaga Lake, New York (USA), Journal of Paleolimnology, 55, 241-258
    • Smith, A.J. and Horne, D.J., 2016. Ostracoda of the Nearctic, In: Thorp, J., Rogers, D.C. (Eds.), Ecology and General Biology: Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates, Volume 2, Chapter 16, Academic Press, p 477-514
    • Smith, Alison J., Horne, David J., Martens, K., and Shon,I. 2015. Ostracoda, IN (Thorp, J. and Rogers, D.C. (eds.) Ecology and General Biology: Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates, Volume 1, Academic Press, Chapter 30, pp. 757–780
    • Viehberg, Finn, Matzke-Karasz, Renate, Park Boush, Lisa., and Smith, Alison (editors), 2014. The Recent and Fossil meet Kempf Database Ostracoda: Festschrift Eugen Karl Kempf, Crustaceana, 87

    Affiliations

    • American Geophysical Union
    • American Quaternary Association
    • Geological Society of America
    • International Quaternary Association

    Documents

    PDF icon CVAlisonJSmithApr-2020.doc
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