Join Kent State President Beverly Warren as she introduces Haifa Jamal AlLail, Ph.D., president of Effat University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Allail is this year's keynote speaker who will be kicking off Kent State's International Education Week. AlLail will speak Nov. 7, in the Kent Student Center Kiva at 5 p.m. Prior to the event, President Warren and President Allail will take part in a signing ceremony to establish a partnership between both universities. About Dr. AlLail Haifa Jamal Allail joined Effat University in 1998 and began her tenure as President in May ...

Jihyun Kim, Ph.D., associate professor in Kent State University’s Fashion School, has been identified as one of the top researchers in fashion marketing, according to a new analysis of contributions to the field. Three of Kim’s colleagues at the Fashion School — Jonghan Hyun, Ph.D., Kim Hahn, Ph.D., and Catherine Leslie, Ph.D. — studied academic publishing in fashion marketing over an 11-year period in order to identify the publications, researchers and institutions with the greatest impact. Their impartial review of authors with the most appearances in leading scholarly journals reveale...

This short documentary showcases the historic collaboration between Emeritus Professor of Music Halim El-Dabh of Kent State University and Martha Graham, founder of the world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company. The company, under the artistic direction of Janet Eilber, recently performed at Kent State's E. Turner Stump Theatre, concluding with Act II of Graham’s only full-evening work Clytemnestra that was composed by El-Dabh.     ...

The Cook-Off is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 17 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. Hosted by the Office of Global Education along with Kent State Dining Services, the Cook-Off features food and beverages from around the world. The event is free and open to all.    Six student culinary teams – from Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Nepal, Saudi Arabia and South Korea – have been selected to compete and will each prepare and present a different cultural entrée and beverage from its home country. The teams will compete for first, second and third place a...

Peggy Nzomo, University Libraries, is the 2016 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) International Relations Committee’s “Bogle-Pratt International Library Travel Fund.” She received this award at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress held Aug. 13-19 in Columbus, Ohio. She also was one of 50 librarians who received the 2016 IFLA Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Fellows scholarship. ...

Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, presented a poster titled “Considerations of Health Information Exchange Use for Long Term Care Participation in Accountable Care Organizations,” at the American Health and Information Management Association LTPAC Summit, in Reston, Virginia, in June 2016. ...