When he lost his job at a local manufacturing facility, Andrew Milarcik did what many former students do, he went back to school. “I had previously completed my AAS Mechanical Engineering Technology degree and thought that would be fine, but the company I worked for got bought out by a foreign concern and they really didn’t understand my degree,” he said. “So, I took a year to finish my bachelor’s.” As part of his coursework at Kent State University at Tuscarawas, Milarcik enrolled in Advanced Manufacturing, a class where he had to complete a project of his choice. His choice was unusu...
A retired Marine is using his journey to assist others at Kent State's Center for Adult and Veteran Services. Recently featured on Good Morning America’s “What You Need to Know” (GMA3) segment, Mark Stillion discussed his experience of adjusting to life after his four deployments and how Kent State’s programs have assisted him. Stillion returned to Kent State with the intention of earning a degree that would allow him to assist the veteran community professionally After a year in school, he was hired by the Center for Adult and Veteran Services. “I’m very proud to be in...
Julie Mazzei, Ph.D., associate professor and interim director of the School of Multidisciplinary Social Sciences and Humanities, in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, will take part in a virtual roundtable discussion with her co-authors of an edited volume "Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization: Political Violence, Elites and Security", edited by Jasmin Hristov, Jeb Sprague and Aaron Tauss (London: Routledge, 2022) on February 23 from 2-3:30 pm EST online via Zoom. To register, visit: https://uoft.me/paramilitary. Mazzei wrote&...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a $300,000 grant to Thorsten-Lars Schmidt, Ph.D., to develop molecular tools that allow researchers to study membrane proteins. Schmidt, assistant professor of the Department of Physics in the College of Arts & Sciences, began developing this project while still at the Technical University Dresden, before accepting a position at Kent State University. “Cell membranes that surround all cells contain a large number of membrane proteins,” Schmidt said. ”Without these proteins, cells would quickly die, as they take over a large v...
Intentionality to build successful academic mentoring relationships with students is what sets professors apart at Kent State, and each year two professors at the graduate and undergraduate level receive a student-nominated award for their ability to do so. “Each year the Office of Student Research informs current students and alumni who have been involved in undergraduate and graduate research about the opportunity to nominate a research mentor for this award,” said Ann Gosky, director of the Office of Student Research in the Division of Research and Sponsored Programs. The...
Efforts made by individuals, student-led groups, faculty members and Kent State University as a whole have led to an exceptionally high increase in voter engagement throughout campus. Kent State has a history of passionate student activism. However, 2020 has really highlighted such efforts, both current and past, and its impact on the importance of students sharing their voices through voting. Senior public relations major Izzy Stewart shares the significance of this power. “It is one thing to use your voice to advocate for things you may be passionate about, but actually putting action beh...
Kent, Ohio — On Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, the Kent State Wind Ensemble traveled to Cleveland’s Severance Music Center as a featured ensemble of the Northeast Ohio Band Invitational (NEOBI), a day-long celebration of music organized by Dan Crain, conductor of the host ensemble, the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony. This year marked the 20th anniversary of NEOBI, which was created as a community outreach project to give young musicians the opportunity to perform in one of the world’s greatest concert venues. Other invited bands included Margaretta High School, Clyde High School, Ontario...
COACH Survey Commences For all full-time tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty Last week, full-time faculty were invited to participate in a survey of faculty job satisfaction. Although there are many surveys that faculty are asked to complete, this one is unique because it was designed entirely to examine current job satisfaction compared to faculty at peer institutions. This survey research is part of a national program called the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), which has been operating from the Harvard Graduate School of Education since 200...
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Who isn’t a sucker for a special treat on Valentine’s Day? For our special Valentine’s Day video this year, the UCM Social and Creative teams collaborated with Flash and Culinary Services to cook up – or should we say bake – something sweet for our students! You may have seen Flash walking around Kent Campus earlier this week with cookie pops in hand to share the love and we were right there to film all the action. Here’s a little behind the scenes info in case you were wondering how it all came together. To get this idea rolling, we reached out t...