Freshman Fashion Design major Isabella “Zaz” Alvarino is the January recipient of the Kent State University Leadership Center's Student Leader of the Month award. An active member on campus, Alvarino is involved in seven organizations, on the dean’s list and is a Gold Medal congressional award recipient. She also holds leadership roles as a Peer Leadership Training Course student and First-Year Intern for Undergraduate Student Government. The Student Leader of the Month program seeks to recognize students for excellence in leadership through campus and community involvement. ...
Kent State University at Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center General Manager David Mitchell has been selected to the Ohio Arts Professionals Network (OAPN) board. OAPN is a member-based organization whose mission is to support and grow the touring Arts & Culture industry in Ohio. The organization was founded in 1960 as a non-profit professional association that provides a forum for developing business relationships, partnerships and cooperative ventures among organizations that present arts and entertainment programming as well as performers, arts service organizations and artist manageme...
A new book by Kent State University at Tuscarawas Professor of Nursing Technology Dr. Mariann Harding, will be released next week on Amazon. Titled Conceptual Nursing Care Planning, the book shows how to identify clinical problems, determine expected outcomes, and choose nursing interventions—all grounded in a logical, concept-based framework. It demonstrates how the use of a concept-based approach and standardized clinical problems language makes it easier to plan effective care and to communicate with other members of the interprofessional team. Harding has been teaching nursing at the...
Julie Mazzei, Ph.D., associate professor of political science, wrote an op-ed titled "Being able to separate fact from fiction will save a government of, by, and for the people" which appeared on cleveland.com on Feb.7. To read the full article, visit: https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2021/02/being-able-to-separate-fact-from-fiction-will-save-a-government-of-by-and-for-the-people-julie-m-mazzei.html Mazzei says "Jan. 6 was a startling reminder of how fragile democracy is, and that ultimately its durability lies with us, the citizens. Public inabilit...
UPDATED INFORMATION The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced new international travel guidelines that start on December 6, 2021. All air passengers, two (2) years of age and older, flying to the United States will need to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test. This includes U.S. citizens traveling back into the United States and all other air passengers connecting through the United States. The CDC mandates the test must be taken no more than one (1) day before the first flight into the U.S. from the passenger's initial departure city or traveler...
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Yoshi Hakutani (Professor Emeritus, English Department) has published American Haiku, Eastern Philosophies, and Modernist Poetics (Lanham, New York, London: Lexington Books), vii, 227 pp. ...
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
Alfred Guiffrida, Management & Information Systems, presented Modeling Carbon Emissions for Last Mile Delivery at the International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science (ODS 2020), Online Meeting of the Italian Operations Research Society in Rome, Italy on November 19, 2020. ...
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Their Story We met at Mike’s Place where Dan was a line cook and I was a waitress. We continued to date while we both attended KSU. We were married the year after we graduated. The Proposal and Marriage We were married in October and because I love Front campus in the Fall, that’s where we had the majority of our wedding day photos done. How Erin and Daniel Remain Connected to Kent State We both became lifetime alumni members and we continue to live in Kent. ...
Division of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement
Their Story I was hired by my future wife to DJ a Punk Party at Prentice Hall. I was a Telecomm major and a DJ of some ill-repute working Thursday's Rockn' Roll night at the Crazy Horse and doing side jobs whenever I could liberate the sound gear from the audio room in the Music & Speech building without permission. (This is between us, right?) Unbeknownst to me, I was referred to the (former) Teresa Blubaugh by her matchmaking RA (Sharon Ivansic) who was a fellow Telecomm major of mine. When I was setting up for the party, my future wife offered me a beer which I declined claiming I was ...