The Super Bowl – a grand stage for advertisers and football players alike – will showcase the work of Kent State digital media production students and alumni, this Sunday, Feb. 4, through a regional Kent State commercial.   This year’s commercial, which will air in the Cleveland markets, was produced completely in-house, with Kent State digital media production alumni and students comprising more than half of the production team.   Student Jimmy Naples, ’18, juggled his production work as a dolly grip – setting up lights, rigging dolly tracks for different shots, etc. – w...

Sandra Volpe ’89, senior vice president of strategic planning, communications and contractor relations for FedEx Ground and 1989 alumna of Kent State University, is the recipient of the 2018 Spirit of Women in Business Award.   Volpe earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Kent State University and a Master of Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.   Volpe joined FedEx Ground in 2000 with more than 10 years of experience in financial planning and analysis. She was promoted to vice president of finance in 2...

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Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, authored “Cy Twombly’s Painting of the Peonies and Haiku Imagery” in Cy Twombly: Image, Text, Paratext, ed. Thierry Greub, (Paderborn, Germany: Wilhelm Fink Verlag / Boston: Brill Publishing Group, 2018), 306-22; and “Yone Noguchi, Ezra Pound, and Imagism: A Summary” in Yone Noguchi Society Newsletter, No. 4 (September 2017), 2-4. ...

Familiar Face Keith Lloyd Associate Professor Department of English Stark Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I teach College Writing, History of the English Language, Linguistics, Grammar, Fairy Tales, The Bible as Literature, Argumentative Prose, Critical Theory, Great Books and World Rhetorics  WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 2002 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Indiana University Southeast LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The people ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: I desired to be part of and promote a respectful commun...

New Face Ann Tager Academic Advisor I College of Arts and Sciences Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Help undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences develop and achieve their educational and personal goals through the use of transformational advising practices.  WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: July 2017 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Slippery Rock University LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I really appreciate the family atmosphere and the student focus. Everyone I’ve met here truly cares about their co-workers and their students, ...