Honors student selected for English Teaching Assistant Award in Ecuador In an impressive close to her undergraduate career, Kent State University Honors College senior Mallory Woods was recently awarded the prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) award. A native of Fairview, Pennsylvania, Woods is completing a major in translation with a Spanish concentration and minors in economics and Italian studies while also finishing a certificate program in teaching English as a foreign language. “I was extremely excited to learn that Mallory was the recipient of an Engl...
Last fall, the annual Kent State Columbiana County Volleyball Classic was held between the East Liverpool and Salem high school teams. As part of this event, the local Kent State campuses award $500 scholarships to two students from each of the high schools. Receiving the scholarships from East Liverpool High School were (from left) Kaylee Nelson and Jasmine Rhodes. Nelson intends to study nursing on the East Liverpool Campus and Rhodes will attend the Kent State Salem Campus while determining her major. Two recipients from Salem High School will be recognized at their senior awards cerem...
KENT, Ohio – The Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship will host the 46th Annual Meonske Professional Development Conference May 19-20 at Kent State University. The annual conference provides attendees with an opportunity to learn and network with other accounting and finance professionals. The conference is named for Norman Meonske, the conference founder and a former Kent State accounting professor. This year’s event will feature engaging sessions on a variety of timely topics relevant to accounting and finance professionals. It provides 16 ...
A large part of many students' college experience is the process of fulfilling an internship. Different internship opportunities are available through Kent State or outside of the university itself. For Honors College student Erin Bernhard (She/Her), the opportunity to do a summer internship was not something to pass up. As a senior Environmental and Conservation Biology major, with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Management, and a minor in Sustainability, the internship opportunity let her travel and get out of her comfort zone. Erin found the internship through The St...
Higher Education Professor Receives AERA Award The American Educational Research Association (AERA) recently announced the winners of its 2022 awards for excellence in education research. Christa Porter, assistant professor of Higher Education Administration in the College of Education, Health and Human Services, received the Review of Educational Research Award from the American Educational Research Association for review of “Understanding Influences of Development on Black Women’s Success in U.S. Colleges: A Synthesis of Literature." Shared with Janice Byrd of The Pen...
Tammy Clewell, Ph.D., professor in Kent State University’s Department of English, will give the inaugural lecture of the Jerry M. Lewis May 4 Lecture Series with her presentation “Remembering the Contested May 4 Memorializing Process.” The lecture and luncheon will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, May 2, in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. Clewell’s lecture will explore how remembering the contentious process of memorializing May 4, 1970, may help us put into practice the principles of plurality as we pursue a more equitable future. Clewell also curated an exhibit of the same name for the M...