This year's 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA) recipients are an outstanding group of teachers who are truly dedicated to their students' success. Sponsored by the Kent State Alumni Association, the DTA is the university’s most prestigious honor in teaching. The award is presented annually to three full-time faculty members who demonstrate extraordinary teaching, whether it be in the classroom or online. Read on. ...

Although widely acknowledged that greater diversity among nurses reduces health disparities and improves quality of care, the U.S. nursing workforce does not mirror the nation’s increasingly diverse population. According to the most recent Ohio Workforce Data Summary Report from the Ohio Board of Nursing, 88.7% of registered nurses reported their race/ethnicity as White/Caucasian, followed by 6.6% who reported their race/ethnicity as African American/Black. With over 25 years of experience at the Kent State University College of Nursing, Dr. Tracey Motter, DNP, RN, Associate Dean of Undergradu...

Michael Tubergen, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry and Torsten Hegmann, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry as well as the Materials Science Graduate Program and Director of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI), may be working in different fields of research, but they have been continuously collaborating with one another to achieve their like-minded goal: Help shape and prepare the next generation of researchers and scientists, regardless of what school they attend. Hegmann and Tubergen received a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant that sup...

KENT, Ohio – The Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship at Kent State University's Online MBA program recently became the first and only Online MBA program in the nation to earn Quality Matters Program Design Certification. Quality Matters™ (QM) is an international, faculty-centric, nonprofit organization focused on improving design and certifying the quality of online and hybrid courses. According to the Quality Matters website, the certification recognizes programs that are designed around measurable learning objectives or competencies. In addition to the Colle...

Michael Tubergen, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry and Torsten Hegmann, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry as well as the Materials Science Graduate Program and Director of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI), may be working in different fields of research, but they have been continuously collaborating with one another to achieve their like-minded goal: Help shape and prepare the next generation of researchers and scientists, regardless of what school they attend. Hegmann and Tubergen received a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant that sup...

The School of Peace and Conflict Studies along with the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Landon Edward Hancock of Kent State University has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award. Dr. Hancock will complete a project at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting participants, institutions, and communities both in the U.S. and overseas through a variety of educational and training activities within Peace and Conflict Resolution.  Recipients of Fulb...

Always big on professional development opportunities, Vice President for Student Affairs Lamar Hylton had to get creative when executing those plans during a pandemic. Enter the Division of Student Affairs Fellows program. “I have always had a commitment to making sure that division staff takes advantage of as many professional development opportunities as possible,” said Hylton. “With the onset of the pandemic, we knew that funding for more traditional forms of professional development like conferences and institute travel and things like that we were not likely to happen [so] we needed...

Kent State University Animation Game Design (AGD) students and faculty will be participating in IndieCade Horizons, Saturday, June 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, June 13, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. IndeCade Horizons is a new, online, international event that showcases game students and schools, and connects them with tool creators, recruiters, one another and the broader public. A juried festival of games, this event is described as the video game industry’s Sundance Festival. IndieCade Horizons celebrates the work of game students and schools from around the world, highlighting work ...

Julia Perrone, research technician and lab manager of the Bahlai computational ecology lab in the Kent State Department of Biological Sciences, wants teachers and students to get a chance to understand ecology and data science from a hands-on perspective. Perrone, a recent graduate of Kent State’s Master of Library and Information Science program, is combining her passion for insect ecology with science education and outreach by partnering with Data Nuggets, an NSF-funded organization devoted to getting real research into the K-12 curriculum. Perrone developed a “nugget”, a hands-on lesson ...