Familiar Face MARK E. LEWIS General Manager University Dining Services Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Day-to-day operations of Dining Services’ units WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 1989 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Club Corporation of America LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Interacting with the students ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Great benefits RESIDES IN: Kent, Ohio HOMETOWN: Kent, Ohio EDUCATION: B.S. Physical Education, Kent State University, 1983 HOBBIES: Traveling and golf ...
New FACE Tiffany Kirkbride Educational Technology Designer Office of Continuing and Distance Education Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I work with faculty to develop online courses. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: June 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Summit Academy LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The people. Everyone is so friendly and helpful. I can tell that they all love it here. ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: I have always loved the Kent community. Everyone I’ve ever talked to from the university (staff or alumni)...
The Fashion School at Kent State University is the recipient of the 2016 Impact Award for Excellence in Education, presented by the Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation. The Morgan Foundation — an organization dedicated to mental wellness, the arts and education in Northeast Ohio and a longtime partner of the Fashion School — honored the school at a gala on Nov. 10. The event included the debut of a new video, created by the foundation, highlighting the school’s impact on students, the community and the fashion industry. Each year, the Morgan Foundation Impact Awards recognize institutions and i...
Kent State University students in the College of Arts and Sciences will get the opportunity to travel to Japan to do collaborative research in a world-class institute, specializing in primate biology, thanks to a recently signed memorandum of understanding with the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University. By studying primates as a model for humans, the researchers hope to address a variety of topics, including evolutionary genetic analysis, Alzheimer’s disease and aggressive behavior. The memorandum, signed by Kent State’s Todd Diacon, Ph.D., senior ...
Join an eight-week, mindfulness-based, stress-reduction course that is free and available to all Kent State University faculty, staff and students. This program provides a practical approach to stress reduction and management. Adapted from the work of John Kabat Zinn and the program of David Potter, this course is for anyone interested in understanding how mindfulness helps reduce stress and improves the quality of one’s life. During the eight weeks, participants will meet on Saturday afternoons, from 3-5 p.m. to practice mindfulness as a group, discuss readings about mindfulness, answer quest...
The Kent State University Alumni Association invites faculty and staff to nominate deserving alumni for the Kent State University Alumni Awards. Sponsored by the alumni association, the alumni awards recognize graduates in the area of leadership, service, character and professional development. Nominations will be accepted through Dec. 31! One student award – the Golden Flash award – will be given to a student who promotes Kent State University spirit, pride and tradition. Award recipients will be honored at the Alumni Awards Ceremony in the fall of 2017. To nominate an individua...
Mietek Jaroniec, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, was recently awarded the Medal of Marie Sklodowska-Curie by the Polish Chemical Society for his scientific achievements. The prestigious medal is awarded to outstanding chemists working permanently abroad for exceptional scientific achievements of international significance and for contributions to the community of Polish chemists. Jaroniec delivered an invited plenary lecture, “Nanoporous Carbon Materials: Newest Advances and Perspectives” at...
The Kent State University family truly showed their blue and gold spirit by donating a record breaking $426,000 for Giving Tuesday. Please watch Kent State President Beverly Warren's heartfelt thank you video to learn just how much of an impact donors' generous support made on Giving Tuesday. ...
Several students and faculty members from Kent State University at Salem began their fall semester with a trip to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southern South Dakota, where they interacted with members of the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe. This was the fifth trip to the reservation by students from Kent State Salem, offered through a transcultural nursing course that focuses on advancing cultural humility. Sixteen nursing students, along with two students from the early childhood education program, were part of this cultural exchange, as well as six faculty members. Lorene Martin, sen...
Earlier this semester, the Kent State University Board of Trustees and the Kent State University Foundation unanimously approved the administration’s proposal for the most ambitious comprehensive fundraising campaign in the history of the university. Support of this proposal represents a significant vote of confidence in the Kent State community’s capacity to dream big dreams and achieve them. As this groundbreaking fundraising effort prepares to launch, every member of the Kent State community is invited to play a role in envisioning ideas that will inspire the hearts and philanthropic int...