Cultural and historical geographer seeks to connect importance for today’s students, society Growing up, Chris Post watched as his mom juggled her collegiate studies and motherhood, balancing everyday life with dreams of earning her Ph.D. And while field excursions with his biologist mom are a memory of his childhood, the impact of place is something this cultural and historical geographer seeks to define today. Earning a Ph.D. of his own, Dr. Post knows that what we leave behind says a lot about where we are headed. “I’ve always been interested in space and the idea of place and also...
World-renowned applied mathematicians and materials researchers will gather this Saturday and Sunday at Kent State University to initiate and foster collaborations to address challenges to areas of applied mathematics ranging from modeling and analysis to scientific computing and machine learning. The Applied Mathematics Symposium on Advanced Materials will be held on Feb. 9-10, 2019. To learn more about the Symposium, visit: https://events.mcs.cmu.edu/advanced-materials-symposium-2019/ The symposium is organized by Professor Peter Palffy-Muhoray and As...
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
Cassandra Pegg-Kirby, Women's Center and Susan V. Iverson, co-authored a section of a book, "Seeking Relevance in an Age of Inequity: A Case Study of the Identity Struggle of One Women's Center," University and College Women's and Gender Equity Centers: The Changing Landscape, 1st Edition, (New York, NY: Routledge) Brenda Bethman, Anitra Cottledge, and Donna M. Bickford, (Eds.), (2019), 87-96. In this chapter, we explore the questions surrounding whether and how Women’s Centers can unite across differences. The messy terrain of identity politics that these centers must navigate is not new, ...
Kent State University student Adam Roman got his first taste of Cleveland’s University Hospitals when he was a young child. The junior nursing major from Garrettsville, Ohio, was eight years old when his youngest brother, Austin, then 13 months old, was diagnosed with Wilms tumor, a type of childhood kidney cancer. “We spent a lot of time at UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s,” Mr. Roman explained. Austin had surgery to remove a grapefruit-size tumor from his left kidney, and returned to the hospital often for treatments and checkups. Even though Mr. Roman was...
For the tenth consecutive year Kent State will compete in RecycleMania, a friendly competition and benchmarking tool to promote waste-reduction at more than 300 college and university recycling communities. The electronics recycling (E-Cycle) Drive and Shred-Mania are hosted by Kent State’s University Facilities Management, Human Resources and the Office of Sustainability. The public electronics recycling drop-off event contributes to Kent State’s standings in the RecycleMania competition. Free Electronics Recycling and Document Shredding The E-Cycle Drive will be held on Feb. ...