Kent State University alumnus Josh Cribbs, a former star on the football field, will now become a star on the small screen with his wife, Maria.   The prominent Cleveland couple will co-host their own local talk show called “Cribbs in the CLE: Josh and Maria Live” beginning this fall on WOIO and WUAB.   The half-hour long show will focus on the couple and their discussions on the latest local and national news, relationships, parenting, entertainment, fitness and other topics of interest to viewers in Northeast Ohio.   The couple met at Kent State when Mr. Cribbs was a qua...

Kent State University and Cleveland State University are pleased to announce a unique collaborative effort to help move technology and innovation from our laboratories and research facilities to commercial markets. The TeCK Fund will be funded with $800,000 – half from the State of Ohio’s Third Frontier Fund, and $200,000 apiece from KSU and CSU. Grants will range in size from $10,000 to $100,000, and must be used to validate university owned technology, build prototypes and analyze commercial market potential, all with an eye towards creating jobs and opportunities in Ohio. The TeCK Fund w...

A team of Kent State researchers took top prize at the Burton D. Morgan Foundation’s LAUNCHTOWN SOARTM Competition, held at Baldwin Wallace University in April, beating teams from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, and the University of Akron.   Their winnings ($7,000) will allow the team to further develop a device which could solve an age-old problem for diabetics.   The device, called a “Shear Force Mat,” represents a breakthrough for physicians seeking to understand the formation of plantar ulcers — one of the most prevalent and dangerous problems fa...

State Approves Round 2 of Kent State-Cleveland State Innovation Partnership State of Ohio officials have renewed a $600,000 technology commercialization partnership between Kent State University and Cleveland State University. Last week, the Ohio Third Frontier Commission approved Round 2 of the TeCK Fund, a $600,000 hybrid commercialization and faculty startup accelerator program which assists university faculty and startup companies to bring innovative new products to the market. The grant awards $300,000 in Third Frontier funds, Kent State and Cleveland State will contribute $150,0...

Kent State University will represent a full third of the 12 teams accepted to the I-Corps @ Akron Summer 2019 Cohort. The University of Akron Research Foundation announced the selections on May 29. I-Corps @ Akron is a public-private partnership program, developed by the University of Akron Research Foundation and funded by the National Science Foundation, which teaches faculty innovators to identify and leverage commercialization opportunities for technologies developed from academic research, and offers entrepreneurship training to student participants. The Summer Cohort is a new idea fro...

The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting Wednesday, June 26, at 3:30 p.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of the University Library.  The two purposes of the special meeting are to ratify a four-year, collective bargaining agreement between the university and full-time, tenure-track faculty who are represented by the Kent State Chapter of the American Association of University Professors; and to consider 2019-20 tuition and fees. No committee meetings will be held, and no other items are on th...

Kent State University Vice President for System Integration Nathan Ritchey recently announced the appointment of Daniel E. Palmer, Ph.D., as interim dean and chief administrative officer of Kent State at Trumbull, effective July 1. He will provide overall leadership to the regional campus, located outside of Warren, Ohio. Palmer joined Kent State at Trumbull in 2001 and has served as assistant dean there since 2010. He is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences. Palmer has a strong record of service as the chair of the Region...

Supplier diversity program manager Veronica Cook Euell received the Neil D. Markee Communicator of the Year Award from the National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP). Presented at a ceremony held during the association’s 2019 Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, the award recognizes a member for outstanding performance in representing the purchasing profession through the written or spoken word by teaching, speaking or publishing. Ms. Euell has become known at Kent State and throughout the region as an individual who is passionate, dedicated and committed to the engageme...