Kent State University has been ranked one of the safest campuses in the country by the Council for Home Safety and Security, a national trade association. Kent State was named to the council’s 2017 top 100 list of Safest Colleges in America. Nationwide, Kent State ranks 11th on the list. Among Ohio institutions, Kent State ranks the safest. The ranking was determined by the most recent data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting and the National Center for Education Statistics. More than 2,000 four-year colleges and universities were assessed. Dean Tondiglia, Kent State’s police chief...
More than two dozen Kent State University faculty, staff members and students took part in Saturday’s Equality March, which kicked off the inaugural Akron Pride 2017 event. This is the first time the city of Akron has sponsored a Pride event, and the university participated as a sponsor for the day’s activities, which begin with the march at 11 a.m. in Akron’s Highland Square neighborhood. The march headed west on West Market Street about 1.5 miles to Hardesty Park, where a Pride festival took place from noon to 8 p.m. Katie Mattise, program coordinator for Kent State’s LGBTQ Student ...
College of Communication & Information
After a year of renovations, Taylor Hall will reopen for classes on Monday, Aug. 28. The Schools of Communication Studies (COMM) and Visual Communication Design (VCD) share the space in the modernized, four-floor building. The May 4 Visitors Center also calls Taylor Hall home and will reopen with normal hours on Sept. 5. The School of Digital Sciences (DSCI), which joined the College of Communication and Information (CCI) in July, will spend the 2017-2018 academic year in Taylor Hall, as well. Find the updated locations of classes by viewing course sched...
According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017. These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it. A recent online publication in Nature Nanotechnology by Kent State University researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad. Hanbin Mao, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and biochemistry in Kent State’s College of ...
Kent Campus
Kent State University and downtown Kent prepare to welcome new and returning students for the fall semester. ...
Haithem Zourrig, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, and Joe Cosentino, undergraduate student at Kent State Stark, have received a Best Paper Award in the “Multicultural Issues track,” discerned by the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS) at the 24th annual ASBBS conference meeting held in March 23-25, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The co-authored paper is titled “Insurance Fraud: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.” ...
Gregory King and Megan Young, School of Theatre and Dance, presented "Cloud of Whiteness" at the Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 5, 2017. "Clouds of Whiteness," is an interactive sculpture, environment and performance space concept. Designed and directed by Young and performed by King, in "Clouds of Whiteness," Young abstracts social and political erasure through a sculptural feedback loop whereby cleaning or moving the modular brick sculpture triggers a fresh layer of white residue. The antagonistic mechanisms are made visible so that viewers may consider agency withi...
It’s that time of year again! As part of the Wellness Your Way employee incentive program, full-time, benefits-eligible employees are invited to attend an onsite health screening, or have one completed in their primary care physician's office. Screenings conducted from Sept. 27, 2017, through April 30, 2018, will go toward the employee Tier One requirement for 2018 incentives. This puts employees well on their way toward their first $150, which will be paid out in February 2018, so that the Employee Wellness Team may complete the 2017 incentive processing that is underway. Onsite Scree...