Pack your mat! As part of the Employee Wellness Program, lunchtime yoga for faculty and staff is offered Tuesdays from 12:15-1 p.m. and Thursdays from 1:15-2 p.m. in Studio 1 at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center on the Kent Campus. Employees are asked to register for each day they would like to attend. Yoga instruction will be provided by Brenda Kavali, instructor at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. All fitness levels are welcome, and participants are requested to bring their own mat. A membership is not required to attend, and there is no cost to Kent State Un...

Don’t delay, sign up today! On-site health screenings are filling up quickly but you can still register for a health screening on the Kent Campus on Thursday, Dec. 7, or Thursday, Dec. 14, from 7:30-10:30 a.m. at the Kent Student Center Ballroom Balcony. As part of the Wellness Your Way employee incentive program, full-time, benefits-eligible employees are invited to attend an on-site health screening or have one completed in their primary care physician's office. Screenings conducted between Sept. 1, 2017, and April 30, 2018, will go toward your Tier One requirement ...

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Familiar Face Jane Rossman Special Assistant Center for Gift and Estate Planning Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Serve as special assistant to the assistant vice president, senior director and associate director of the Center for Gift and Estate Planning WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: December 1996 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Akron Children’s Hospital LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Kent State is a family! We have a beautiful campus and a great environment for all students, faculty and the community. ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN ...

New Face Kiwon Lee Assistant Professor School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Assistant professor in the hospitality management program WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: January 2017 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: University of Tennessee, Knoxville LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The way the university cares for its students. ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Major program quality RESIDES IN: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio HOMETOWN: Chungju, South Korea EDUCATION: Ph.D. Hosp...

Kent State University President Beverly Warren inspired the university community to embrace the upcoming academic year as the “Year of Innovation” in seeking new ways to collaborate with a collective purpose that makes a positive impact on the region and the world.  President Warren delivered her remarks Oct. 17 at her annual State of the University address, which was attended by more than 300 people at the Kent Student Center Kiva on the Kent Campus and watched on a livestream across the university’s eight-campus system. “This is the start of an innovation era,” President War...

Angela Spalsbury, Ph.D., of Chesterland, Ohio, has been selected as the new dean and chief administrative officer of Kent State University at Geauga in Burton and Kent State’s Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg. A Kent State alumna, Dr. Spalsbury currently serves as professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Youngstown State University. She will join Kent State on Jan. 1, 2018. “I am sincerely looking forward to being a part of the dynamic Kent State family,” Dr. Spalsbury says. “I will work diligently with faculty, staff and students to foster a thriving academ...

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Finals are Friday, Oct. 27, from noon-2 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. The 3MT gives Kent State University graduate students just three minutes and one PowerPoint slide as tools to explain their research in a clear, engaging and concise manner. The exercise allows graduate students the opportunity to share their research with an interdisciplinary audience, consolidate their ideas and crystalize their research discoveries. Approximately 45 graduate students participated in the 3MT preliminary rounds last week, and the top presenters from each prel...