CliftonStrengths Workshop

CliftonStrengths is a paid leadership assessment, and the Division of Graduate Studies will be covering the cost of the assessment for graduate students on a first-come, first-served basis. The deadline to register for the CliftonStrengths assessment is Wednesday, March 24 at 5 p.m. Career Exploration and Development (CED) will be hosting a virtual workshop during Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW) on April 8.

Ashtabula Main Hall Gymnasium Serves as COVID-19 Vaccination Site

Kent State University at Ashtabula was set up to take patients in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring when authorities and experts were unsure of how the spread would impact area hospitals. The space wasn’t needed then, but the campus helped in other ways by donating personal protective equipment to frontline health care professionals. Now as vaccinations become more readily available, the campus has stepped up in partnership with the Ashtabula City Health Department to serve as a distribution center for the vaccine.  Hosting a total of 16 clinics through February and e...

The Royal Society of Chemistry has recently selected an article by Materials Science Graduate faculty members, Dr. Antal Jakli and Dr. Samuel Sprunt as a 2021 HOT PCCP article. The article is titled: The interplay between spatial and heliconical orientational order in twist-bend nematic materials. You can find the article by going to: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/cp/d0cp06633h#!divAbstract ...

The Royal Society of Chemistry has recently selected an article by Materials Science Graduate faculty members, Dr. Antal Jakli and Dr. Samuel Sprunt as a 2021 HOT PCCP article. The article is titled: The interplay between spatial and heliconical orientational order in twist-bend nematic materials. You can find the article by going to: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/cp/d0cp06633h#!divAbstract ...

English Professor Vera Camden, Ph.D. spoke with Cleveland-based WKYC's Lynna Lai (on March 2) about Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Cleveland Indians response to Mickey Callaway's behavior.  "Have the [high-profile] good guys speak up for women," Camden said. "That would be powerful." Dr. Camden, who teaches Kent State courses on #MeToo among many other topics, says MLB must face its own social reckoning. To that end, she's concerned about reports conflating Callaway's alleged consensual affair, with the allegations of sexual harassment in the work...

Photo of the Brain statue lit up at dusk on Kent Campus.

Freshman Honors Colloquium professor Bill Morris is a first generation college graduate currently preparing to defend his dissertation at Kent State.  Morris grew up in a small, rural area in California. He initially did not plan on attending college, but ended up being the first in his family to do so. He attended Santa Rosa Junior College and then received his bachelor’s degrees in English and Philosophy from Humboldt State University, a public university located in Arcata, California. He then completed his Masters in English with an emphasis on teaching writing. Following this, he th...

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