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Kent State University is one of only four institutions nationwide chosen to host a Japan Outreach Initiative (JOI) coordinator. Haruhide Osugi, Kent State’s Japan Outreach Initiative coordinator, has been working to bridge cultural divides by developing a deeper understanding of Japan within the Kent community since August 2016. The Japan Outreach Initiative was designed in collaboration with the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and the Laurasian Institution. All coordinators spend two-year terms at their assigned institutions, which can be nonprofit organizations or academic in...
Originally from Tehran, Iran, Pooyan Mirjalili is currently a Junior Biology Pre-Med major at Kent State University. He was nineteen when he first enrolled at Kent State University and he says his choice to come here was an easy one. When first searching for schools, he looked to his friends and family for suggestions. In Tehran, he had several acquaintances who had previously study at Kent State and each had nothing but great things to say about the university. Along with those recommendations, Pooyan was also please to learn that Kent State tuition also fit within his budget. But his final d...
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2017 GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS CEREMONY Monday, April 24th at 4pm Richard Bowers Dissertation Award: DeShawn Johnson (Dr. de Szalay) Departmentally funded (spring semester with no teaching duties) &nb...
Congratulations to our undergraduate award winners for 2017! Dorcas J. Anderson FACULTY Award Katherine A. Benya; Rank: Senior; BS Zoology Ryan Z. Byler; Rank: Senior; BS Zoology Biological Sciences Pre-Medicine Award Rylee E. Pence; Rank: Senior; BS Biology, Concentration: Pre-Medical Robert W. Woodruff; Rank: Senior; BS Biology, Concentration: Pre-Medical RALPH W. Dexter FACULTY Award Kati N. O’Keefe; Rank: Senior; BS Biology, Concentration: Pre-Medical Hayley E. Robinson; Rank: Senior; BS Molecular/Cellular Biology JUDITH Koonce MEMORIAL Award Sama...
The Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, in the College of Arts and Sciences, has driven innovation and generated national distinction for over three decades through its award-winning Traveling Stanzas project, which brings poetry to people’s everyday lives in communities around the world. At the inaugural March for Science, a global demonstration centered in Washington, D.C., a special edition of Traveling Stanzas titled Science Stanzas will provide an opportunity for participants to discover the intersection of expressive writing and scientific inquiry. SCI...
If you ask Christopher Fenk, science is something that should be accessible to everyone. Through his research on using cellphones as lab equipment, Fenk is striving to provide classrooms with affordable alternatives to equipment that can cost between $1,200 to $2,000 per piece. Fenk, a chemistry professor at Kent State University at Tuscarawas, used his faculty sabbatical to enhance the learning experience of others. Through his research, he discovered a mechanism to conduct spectroscopy experiments with a cellphone, bubble wrap and a cardboard box. Inspired by research conducted by chemist ...
College of Communication & Information
Two teams of Kent State public relations students earned honorable mentions in the Public Relations Student Society of America’s (PRSSA) Bateman Case Study Competition. The two Kent State teams were selected for the honor among sixty teams that entered the competition nationwide. Each year the competition asks students to research, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive public relations campaign for a real client. This year’s client was The Campaign to Change Direction, an organization that seeks to change the conversation about mental health in the United States. This is third tim...
East Liverpool – Kent State University at East Liverpool presents its annual Holocaust Remembrance observance on May 3 with a book-signing and lecture, including a candle-lighting observance, open to the public. Beginning at 10 a.m. that day, Dr. Ronni Sanlo will be in the Barnes & Noble Bookstore, located on the second floor of Purinton Hall, to sign copies of her book The Solider, the Avator and the Holocaust: WWII Germany, Jan.-May, 1945.” Sanlo, who was born in East Liverpool, explained that the book is based on letters her father, Sanford “Sandy” Lebman, wrote to her mother, Loi...
On April 20, Vice President of Jazan University in Saudi Arabia, Professor Sultan Hasan Al-Hazmi met with members of the Kent State faculty and staff to sign two partnership agreements between the two universities. The agreements included a Memorandum of Agreement, which establishes a mutually beneficial educational and pedagogical relationship between Jazan University and Kent State University, and a Visiting Student/Faculty Amendment, which provides study and research opportunities and cooperative projects among students and faculty from both universities. Founded in 2006, Jazan Universit...