Nationally honored strategist aims to dramatically advance Kent State’s reputation, distinction Following a national search, Kent State University has selected Karen B. Clarke as its senior vice president for strategic communications and external affairs. Clarke comes to Kent State from Temple University in Philadelphia, where she has served as vice president for strategic marketing and communications. Last year, the American Marketing Association named Clarke its “National Higher Education Visionary Leader in Marketing.” She joins Kent State on Jan. 3, 2017.   Clarke will report directl...

Dr. Valerie Cubon-Bell has been named one of three campus-wide recipients of the Outstanding Teaching Award presented by the University Teaching Council. Each year, Kent State University honors full-time, non-tenure-track and part-time faculty members who are nominated by their students and peers for being among the most dedicated, highly effective and motivated professors at the university. Dr. Cubon-Bell, who is an assistant professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Kent State University at Trumbull, will receive the award at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 12 in Kent State Trumbull’s...

Nursing Instructor Angela Douglass has been announced a finalist for Kent State University's 2016 Outstanding Teaching Award. Three recipients will be awarded this year on Friday, October 21, 2016. ELIGIBILITY A faculty member must have been on a non-tenure-track or part-time contract at the Kent Campus or any Regional Campus of the University for a minimum of five consecutive years (annually, not necessarily every semester), including the current academic year. Returning emeriti are excluded. Those receiving the awards must be on contract during the Fall semester in which the awar...

Kent State Biology Professor Studies How Selfish Genes Cause Male Sterility in Flowering Plants Why are plants often sterile when their parents are from different species? How do species remain separate entities in nature? Andrea L. Case, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, co-authored an article that may provide some answers to these basic questions in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which was recently published online.  In their article, "Selfish evolution of cy...