WHAT: The Kent State University community will gather April 23 to celebrate the construction launch of the Design Innovation Hub, a dynamic, new space designed to spark creativity and collaboration. The Design Innovation Hub is an open-access, collaborative, co-working, idea-generating and innovative environment connecting students, faculty and the community to a network of existing spaces, makerspaces and resource laboratories across the university. In addition, the building will include a large dining venue that will seat approximately 350 people and serve unique offerings. The con...
The Associate Degree in Nursing program at Kent State University at Ashtabula inducted its newest members into the Alpha Delta Nu Honor Society Tuesday, April 16, 2019. Second-year nursing students Emily Rose Hodun and Noel Armstrong represent the fifth class inducted on the Ashtabula Campus into the Gamma Sigma Chapter. The Alpha Delta Nu Honor Society was founded with the intention to promote scholarship and academic excellence in the nursing profession. Alpha Delta Nu encourages the pursuit of advanced degrees in nursing as well as continuing education as a life-lon...
Colloidal particles functionalized with DNA open new strategies for colloidal self-assembly. Particles can be coated with one or more DNA “sticky ends” that can be programmed to hybridize at different temperatures. Particles can be either uniformly coated with DNA or coated on well-defined patches with different "valence". Of these, valence 2, which form chains, and valence 4, which coordinate tetrahedrally, are particular interesting. In addition, we also make Janus particles with varying patch size. Using these different particles, we demonstrate how to make new crystal structures, including...
Kent State senior Anna Huntsman was chosen among top journalism students in the nation to travel to Arizona State University this summer and investigate disaster recovery efforts in the United States. The prestigious News21 Fellowship awards 24 students from journalism programs across the U.S., Canada and Ireland the chance to travel across the country to report and produce stories each summer. Students from Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) have been selected for this selective fellowship year after year. This past semester, Huntsman has been participating i...
The Record Courier recently highlighted the legacy of Hobb's Goose Beans, heirloom beans named after the late Kent State University biology professor Clinton Hobbs who died in 2009. Hobbs developed a dedicated following in Portage County from the beans, and now the beans are now grown and coveted by a few passionate gardeners and passed from friend to friend. The fact the beans are still growing in the area came as a surprise to Hobbs’ daughter Melissa Hobbs, who now lives in California. To read the story behind Hobb’s bean legacy at Kent State and in Portage County, visit www.record-courie...
National Get Fit Don't Sit Day™ is an opportunity for the American Diabetes Association (ADA) to increase awareness of the dangers of excessive sitting and the importance of getting up and moving throughout the day, especially at work. At Kent State University, we value the health of our faculty, staff and students and want to provide opportunities to empower you with the resources needed to get moving today and every day. Join us at the track behind the DeWeese Health Center as we get up and move on May 1 from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. The Employee Wellness Team and Recreational Services will...
Kent State University introduced distance learning courses and online classes in 2005 to make it easier for commuter students to connect. Now students living in residence halls are just as likely to take advantage of online classes as those students looking to save themselves a drive to campus. Since Kent State began to offer distance learning in addition to traditional classes, student have embraced the online format, even those on the Kent Campus. Online classes at the Kent Campus allow students more flexibility when scheduling core classes and electives. No matter the major or credit hour...
Dr. Craig Paulenich, professor of English at the Kent State Salem Campus, is holding a book signing and reading April 25, 6 p.m., in the Academic Learning Commons on campus. Books will be sold, cash only, for $15 each. Paulenich will share selections from his recently published book, Old Brown, a collection of poems and essays about Captain John Brown, a radical abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of slavery. It was Brown, a self-appointed “captain,” who led a group of his followers on an attack of the occupied federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Va., (now West Virginia). Duri...
Whoever said, “You can never go home again” didn’t know Nathan Pilarczyk. Within a span of five years, he graduated from his small hometown school in Orwell, went off to college at Ohio University, transferred to Kent State Geauga for his Middle Childhood Education degree, and now has come full circle to Grand Valley Middle School — not as a student this time, but as a teacher and coach. “I grew up in this community, and it has given me so much. I’m excited to be in a position to give back,” Pilarczyk says. “I love it here. I just made a big loop, and now I’m right back where I sta...
Mahwish Chishty stands in the center of a small exhibit space she has mocked up in her studio at Kent State’s Center for the Visual Arts. Its four walls, covered in shiny mylar emergency blankets—the kind given to refugees and survivors of disaster—reflect back her image, multiplying it. Mounted on the walls are 3 ft. x 3 ft. square stainless-steel panels, their mirror finish painted with black dots that appear as random patterns when seen up close, then resolve into children’s faces when viewed from a distance. The Pakistani-born artist and assistant professor in the School of Art is po...