E. Thomas Dowd, Department of Psychological Sciences, was elected fellow of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in New York, New York, on Oct. 28, 2016.
E. Thomas Dowd, Department of Psychological Sciences
![Kent State University at Salem English Club members Aarika Denton, Julia Pitcock and Hannah Satterfield held summer writing workshops for area kids.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/REGIONALFEATUREEnglishClub.jpg?VersionId=ult8_s6KqTf1masw_RE0_h0jmPXZeIAu&h=ec98a0f6&itok=rOwyxk9-)
Three Kent State University at Salem students planned summer writing workshops for area kids, teaching youngsters how to travel to far off places through writing and by using their imaginations.
![Ratchneewan Ross, associate professor in the College of Nursing, shared this photo of Lake Chautauqua.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/SUMMERVACATIONRoss.jpg?VersionId=VXoJBVZz3W45FI4tyWutCprTSY016SOS&h=ec98a0f6&itok=WlXzlCcM)
In this final feature, Kent State University employees shared some of their favorite summer vacation photos with e-Inside.
Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, Cathleen Conboy Pyrek and Alexander Mawyer authored “Navigating Spatial Relationships in Oceania” in Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropology and Related Sciences, Vol. 9 (1). Dwight Read and Murray Leaf (Eds.) (2016), 1-7.
Richard Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, Cathleen Pyrek (a recent Kent State master’s graduate), and Alexander Mawyer (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) guest-edited a special issue of Structure and Dynamics, an online open-access journal hosted by the University of California.
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Special Collections Cataloger
Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries
Kent Campus
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Compliance Investigator
Office of Compliance and Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
Kent Campus
The Board of Trustees on May 11, 2016, approved the operating budget for FY 2017, which includes a 2-percent funding increase for salaries of classified and unclassified employees not represented by a union.
Bring your bike from home or check out a bike through the Flashfleet bike share program at one of eight locations around campus. Join Chris John from the Department of Recreational Services on Aug. 11 at noon for a 30- to 40-minute ride on the Kent Campus.
In collaboration with the Division of Information Services, the Human Resources Compensation team is completing a project to update the university’s job description website. The Human Resources and Information Services project team completed development on this project in less than two months, using the Agile project methodology.
The new website application has incorporated several new features for departments, individual employees and other casual users of the website. These features include:
Kent State University’s holiday shutdown for 2016 will begin Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. In addition, the university will close Monday, Dec. 26, 2016, through Monday, Jan. 2, 2017. All offices will re-open on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017.
Pay Dates:
The semi-monthly and bi-weekly pays will both occur on Dec. 22, 2016. The January 2017 pays will occur on the following dates:
The Kent State University Board of Trustees today established a comprehensive, national search to recruit and select the university’s 13th president.
The events of May 4, 1970, placed Kent State University in an international spotlight after a student protest against the Vietnam War and the presence of the Ohio National Guard ended in tragedy with four students losing their lives and nine others being wounded. From a perspective of nearly 50 years, Kent State remembers the tragedy and leads a contemporary discussion and understanding of how the community, nation and world can benefit from understanding the profound impact of the event.
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