In honor of Women’s History Month, Kent State Today will be looking at the accomplishments of Kent State women who have advanced the cause of women, broken glass ceilings and left a lasting impact on women’s history. A trailblazer for LGBTQ+ rights, the late Dolores Noll, Ph.D., Professor Emeritas of English, was one of Kent State University’s first openly gay professors when she came out in 1971. Noll came to Kent State in 1961 as an instructor in the Department of English and became an assistant professor upon completing a doctorate. In 1971, she helped to form Kent State’...
“Parenting students face numerous challenges on their way to degree completion; we can help remove many of those barriers and challenges.” Being a college student is tough enough for most, but for those who are also parenting young children or caring for loved ones – in addition to other responsibilities like work, managing a household, and appointments – going to class and succeeding can seem like a daunting task. Kent State University at Ashtabula Associate Professor of Sociology Jessica Leveto, Ph.D., understands the challenges faced by those students better than most. She earn...
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College of Communication & Information
Introducing new perspectives can help students learn about unique cultures and explore similarities and differences. Ikram Toumi, an assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies, has brought that possibility to Kent State University with her global education initiatives. Originally from Tunisia, Toumi is tri-lingual, speaking Arabic, English and French, which fuels her interest in multicultural and socially diverse dimensions of global media and communication. She also works on social change, social movements, media literacy, globalization, immigration, acculturation and id...
Since completion of her Ph.D. in 2016, Assistant Professor Melissa Edler and her colleagues have secured more than $2 million in research funding for examining aging and neurodegenerative diseases. Eventually, this research could help millions of people find a better way to combat and live with harsh brain diseases. Edler began examining the brains of aged chimpanzees for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology as part of her dissertation at Kent State University. AD is characterized by the buildup of two toxic proteins, amyloid-beta (Aβ) which forms plaques and tau which is associated...