Dean Angela Spalsbury invited faculty, staff, and students to nominate Kent State Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center full-time and part-time faculty members as well as a full-time or part-time staff member to be selected for the Fall 2020 Excellence Awards. The faculty award recognizes the importance placed on superior teaching and encourages teaching achievement. The staff award is equally important but emphasizes an employee who supports the day-to-day operations of the two-site campus and the Students First priority. Dean Spalsbury is thrilled to announce the Fall 2020 Excellence Aw...

Richard Feinberg, Anthropology, Authored a journal article  Cross-Cultural Fieldwork: The Heart of Anthropological Research,  Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities: Anthropologia culturalis, Jakub Havlicek, Volume 10, Issue 1, (2020): 5-17. ...

The President’s Award of Distinction was created as a recognition program to reward staff members who have demonstrated outstanding achievements, service, leadership, and dedication to Kent State in advancing the university’s strategic priorities and core values. Nominees for the award must have demonstrated exceptional performance in living the university’s core values and/or advancing the priorities of the Strategic Roadmap to a Distinctive Kent State. Award recipients were selected by President Todd Diacon. The Division of Student Affairs had two staff members -- Director of the Student ...

Six of Kent State University’s Regional Campuses were recently featured in Solar Power World for the installation of solar panels on its campuses, offering cleaner, more sustainable energy that is also more cost effective.  The solar project involves the Ashtabula, East Liverpool, Geauga, Salem, Stark and Trumbull campuses. In addition, Kent State’s College of Podiatric Medicine in Independence, Ohio, is included in the project and has installed solar panels near its building along Interstate 77.  Bob Misbrener, project manager II of sustainability, energy conservation and comm...