At Kent State University, Golden Flashes are known to take care of other Flashes. With the pandemic looming over the school year, more than 100 Kent State faculty, staff and administrators checked in on first-year students over the phone last November to talk about their well-being and pathways for success during their first semester. First-year students at Kent State faced incredible challenges at the beginning of the academic year due to the pandemic. Between beginning their college careers in a nearly virtual setting and living on campus with firm guidelines to ensure safety, many first-ye...
Our next speaker for the professional student seminars series is Dr. Seyyed Muhammad Salili from Wacker Chemical Corporation and Rowan University, this Thursday at 1:00 pm. Please find the details of the talk in the attached flyer and Zoom meeting link below. https://zoom.us/j/91338615228?pwd=UEVtWkREQUJzUWRSYjZJODB5b3VCUT09 ...
KENT, Ohio – Ilgaz Arikan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management at the Kent State College of Business Administration, recently collaborated with the Academy of International Business (AIB) to launch a video series, “Frontline IB: Conversations with IB Scholars.” According to Arikan, the project began as an effort to distill the experiences of the top international business scholars in an interview format to benefit Ph.D. students and younger scholars. In the meantime, he was also pursuing a research stream on creativity, so part of the interview focused on the creativity in sc...
Grace Murray, a doctoral candidate at Kent State University's interdisciplinary doctoral program in Educational Psychology and Psychological Sciences has been awarded the prestigious Jeanette and Louis Reuter Fellowship in Developmental Sciences. The EHHS student received this honor in memory of Jeanette Reuter to outstanding doctoral students contributing to and studying in the area of human development across the lifespan. Grace’s research centers around investigating why misconceptions arise by comparing the cognitive competition between explicit and implicit processes and children's...
More than 2,000 area residents, including some Kent State University employees, received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine March 23, during a mass vaccination event at the Kent State Field House. The mass vaccinations will continue every Tuesday at the field house this spring and are led by the Portage County Combined General Health District. Future clinic dates/times may vary based upon the amount of vaccine received by the county. "My decision to take the vaccine was driven by my desire to protect myself, my family and my community," said Amoaba Gooden, interim ...
Hello, my name is Isra Shaikh! I am a CCP student at the Kent State Twinsburg Campus. I have recently begun writing for The Diary of a Golden Flash, the Kent State Geauga/Twinsburg blog. I have thoroughly enjoyed writing for this blog, despite only having written one entry so far. It was through this blog that I received the opportunity to interview a faculty member in order to learn more about that specific field. I had chosen to interview Dr. Julie Evey. It was an enjoyable experience, and Dr. Evey is very inspirational and motivational. She has been teaching psychology for over ...
You may have heard it said, “when hard times come, notice those who remain, and the ones who disappear.” Nursing instructors are in a position to see this scenario playing out in the lives of their students at Kent State University at Geauga and the Twinsburg Academic Center. Many people pursue a career in health care because of ample opportunities to serve others while enjoying steady work, advancement, and good pay. But when a pandemic hits, people on the health care path start to have second thoughts. Is the risk worth the reward? “Many of our nursing students are already working in the ...
If you have a chance to get a vaccine, do it. That was the message from city and university leaders during a March 22, 2021 virtual town hall meeting. Participants included: Taryn Burhanna, MSN, APRN, NP-C, lecturer and clinical instructor, Kent State College of Nursing Joan Seidel, MA, BSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC, Kent City Health Commissioner Tara Smith, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology, Kent State College of Public Health Julie Volcheck, MS, Kent State assistant vice president for student affairs and director of University Health Services Audience members were able to s...
College of the Arts
Throughout the semester, School of Theatre and Dance students, faculty, and staff have worked to find innovative and creative ways to bring performance and design to life amidst a global pandemic, taking choreography and storytelling into the virtual world. The School of Theatre and Dance's continues its virtual 2020-2021 mainstage season with a LIVE virtual production of Qui Nguyen's She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms. Performances are March 31 – April 2, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. Admission to the live stream is FREE, but reservations are required. RSVP to View She Kills Monsters: Vi...