Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, co-authored a paper titled "A Networked Reaction to the 2015 Ankara Attack in the Turkish Twittersphere" with colleagues from the Ohio State University School of Communication. The paper was presented by Aysenur Dal, an OSU doctoral student, at the Political Networks Conference (POLNET) on June 24, 2016, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Emad Khazraee, School of Library and Information Science
All Kent State University campuses will operate on a holiday schedule from Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, through Friday, Jan. 1, 2016. During this time, all nonessential operations will be closed at all Kent State campuses. Normal business operations will resume with the first shift on Monday, Jan. 4, 2016.
Kent State University at Ashtabula welcomes a new food service to campus with the opening of Bridge Street Boulevard.
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Richard (Rick) Feinberg, professor of anthropology on the Kent Campus, was elected Section Assembly Convener of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
David Hassler, director of Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center, attended a meeting of poetry organizations from across the U.S. at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from Nov. 5-7.
Emad Khazraee, School of Library and Information Science, presented "Introduction to Basic Social Media and Social Network Analysis" at the Internet Policy in the MENA Region: Research Methods for Advocates in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sept. 3, 2015.
Jeffrey T. Child, School of Communication Studies, and Shawn Starcher, College of Communication and Information, authored "Fuzzy Facebook Privacy Boundaries: Exploring Mediated Lurking, Vague-booking, and Facebook Privacy Management," Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 54, (2016): 483-490.
Peter C. Kratcoski, Sr., Department of Sociology, Kent State University at Stark, authored a section of a book, "Police-Academic and Professional Practitioner Collaboration in Research, Education, Training, and Programming" in Collaborative Policing: Police, Academics, Professionals, and Communities Working Together for Education, Training, and Program Implementation, 1st ed. (Boca-Raton, Florida: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group) Peter C. Kratcoski, Sr. and Maximilian Edelbacher, Eds.(2016), 5-26.
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.