For the past two years, the Office of Faculty and Graduate Student Retention, Inclusion and Success has conducted an eight-week multidisciplinary summer research experience for undergraduates called the ASSURE (Access and Support for Successful Undergraduate Research Experience) program. Participating students conduct research under the guidance of a faculty mentor from their field of interest. The program includes professional development workshops and social activities that allow students to interact and engage with other summer research programs. Also, the students prepare a Three Minute Th...
Bill Lucak leads workshops focused on Digital Fabrication ...
In its 2020 edition of Best Graduate Schools, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Kent State University in the top 100 of Best Graduate Education Schools. Kent State ranks 93rd in the country in the Best Graduate Education Schools ranking, improving 15 spots from last year’s ranking of 108th. “We are very excited to see our U.S. News & World Report rankings that reflect the strengths of our truly groundbreaking programs,” said James Hannon, Ph.D., dean of Kent State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services. “Our distinctive programs in the College of Educatio...
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
Vera Camden, Department of English, Valentino Zullo and Whitney Porter presented "Higher, Further, Faster: Women Leading Superhero Films (and the World),” City Country Club in Cleveland, Ohio on March 14, 2019. Professor Camden, along with the two graduate students were on a special panel speaking about Marvel's Captain Marvel movie and the future of the representation of women across media. https://www.cityclub.org/forums/2019/03/14/higher-further-faster-women-leading-superhero-films-and-the-world ...
“She doesn't just want us to succeed, but to shine. Carolyn really believes each student has a rock star inside them and is determined to bring it out.”- Kathryn Osborne Kent State University at Ashtabula Associate Lecturer Carolyn Carvalho has been named a finalist by the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education (NOCHE) for The Expys 2019 Best College Advisor. The Expys is NOCHE and Contempo DESIGN + COMMUNICATIONS’s annual awards program that “recognizes the best-of-the-best in Northeast Ohio’s internship and experiential learning ecosystem.” The annual awards luncheon takes...
Officials from Kent State University and Hannah E. Mullins School of Practical Nursing recently signed an articulation pathway agreement that provides opportunities for graduates of the Salem nursing school to transition into the East Liverpool Campus’s nursing program. This partnership is designed to be a bridge from the HEMSPN’s licensed practical nurse program to the Kent State East Liverpool’s associate degree in nursing program, from which students graduate as registered nurses. “Kent State and Hannah Mullins developed an academic pathway for the LPN graduates to flow into our A...
Seventy-years after Allied forces liberated the people of Paimpol, France, during World War II, Richard Berrong, Ph.D, professor of French in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies at Kent State University, decided to document part of the story that he felt has not been told. The professor traveled to France to do something he had never done – create a documentary film. In the end, he made two: “C’était la joie!” and “On avait plutôt peur.” His first film covers the two to three weeks it took for American soldiers to liberate Paimpol, wh...