Communications
Communications
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The Washington Program in National Issues (WPNI) is more than your average internship program. Each spring, a cohort of roughly 20 Kent State juniors and seniors heads to Washington, D.C., to participate in a variety of internships. Students from all majors are encouraged to apply, from journalism to mathematics. WPNI helps students secure internships in a variety of areas including government agencies, nonprofits or news organizations, among others. While completing this internship, students also partake in a public policy seminar with WPNI Program Director Mark Cassell, Ph.D. Through b...
College of Education Health and Human Studies alumnus Mike Daniels, Ph.D., Higher Education, and director of Kent State's E. Timothy Moore Student Multicultural Center, recently received a national dissertation of the year award from the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) Foundation. Dr. Daniels’ dissertation is a constructivist grounded theory study on undergraduate Black men and how they develop their leader identity. The result of this study was a substantive theory and model on the leader identity development process of Black men. NASPA is a member...
Kent City Manager Dave Ruller remembers well the day in late 2006 when he met Kent State University’s then-President Lester A. Lefton at the Franklin Square Deli to talk about downtown Kent. “It was the famous turkey sandwich lunch meeting,” he recalled. Lefton, known for his no-nonsense, sometimes gruff manner, didn’t mince his words, Ruller said. He pointed to whole blocks of downtown and pronounced them “a piece of crap.” Ruller said Lefton, who served from 2006 to 2014, made it clear that he wanted Kent State to be a great university and could not do tha...
Employees (Business Operations)
- In the event that there is inclement weather but Kent campus is not closed, employees should always use sound personal judgments regarding the safety of their travel when deciding whether or not to report to work. Employees should notify their supervisors if they are unable to report to work or feel it necessary to leave early. Any absence must be recorded in the form of leave (vacation, personal, or comp time).
Bradley Morris, Ph.D., is an associate professor and program coordinator of Educational Psychology in Kent State’s School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences. He is also co-director of the university’s Science of Learning Education (SOLE) Center. At his recent presentation at a Research and Innovation Forum, sponsored by SOLE and the Division of Research and Sponsored Programs (RASP), he said “The first question I get is ‘why would NSF (National Science Foundation) give you money to pop popcorn with kids?’” The leaky pipeline To answer the question, Morris r...
“Are you a math person?” That’s a question Dana Miller-Cotto, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Kent State's Department of Psychological Sciences, asked at the beginning of her presentation at the recent Research & Innovation Forum, sponsored by the university's Science of Learning Education (SOLE) Center and the Division of Research and Sponsored Programs (RASP). She acknowledged that some people feel very strongly about math, and some may even feel anxiety about it. Miller-Cotto also asked how people feel about being “a math person” – or not. She asked forum attendee...
Three researchers from Kent State’s Science of Learning Education (SOLE) Center presented their current projects today at the Research and Sponsored Programs (RASP) Research and Innovation Forum. ‘Nursing education study with emerging technologies, haptics and mixed reality’ Kwangtaek Kim, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in Kent State’s Department of Computer Science. His research involves using emerging technologies like haptics and mixed reality, to help teach nursing students important skills like inserting needles and IVs in a virtual environment. He works with other resea...
My name is Ruth Morara and I am in the class of 2026. My major is Conservation Biology. I honestly feel more like Kent chose me than the other way around! I am Kenyan-American but my family lives in Kenya, and so have I for the past 12 years. The exchange rate between our currencies made my dream of studying in the US look impossible. However, several staff at Kent State reached out and connected me to resources which could help me bypass this financial obstacle. Within a couple of weeks, I was met with a plethora of financial aid; far higher than any offered by the other universities t...
On the night of Feb. 3, about 50 cars of a freight train operated by Norfolk Southern Railway derailed in a fiery crash on the outskirts of East Palestine, a tiny village in northeastern Ohio, nestled near the state line with Pennsylvania. Ten of the derailed cars were transporting hazardous materials, five of which contained vinyl chloride, a highly volatile colorless gas produced for commercial uses. Since then, there have been many reports about the evacuation of nearby residents, the cleaning and environmental testing that are still underway and political coverage of governmental...