Kiersten F. Latham, School of Library and Information Science

Online faculty/staff parking permit renewals will be available from April 16-May 11. After May 11, permits can be purchased in person in the Parking Services office located in Room 123, Schwartz Center. For permit-renewal assistance or for additional information, contact Parking Services at 330-672-4432 or by email at parking@kent.edu.
   
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The Kent Creativity Festival event planning committee invites you to submit an application to participate in the third annual Kent Creativity Festival, to be held on Saturday, Sept. 29. Last year, the event drew more than 2,500 attendees, and expectations are high for an even more successful event this year. This multigenerational festival will provide an opportunity for people of all ages and skill levels to come together to create, share and explore the making of all forms of art.

Did you know that if you are driving and have a passenger, are eating or drinking and send a text, your chances of crashing increase by 1,139 percent?

Join other Golden Flashes for the 10th annual Alumni Day of Service on April 21. To sign up for one of the service sites or to create your own, visit www.ksualumni.org/FlashesGiveBack.

Clients who make use of veterinary services may soon be meeting with registered veterinary nurses instead of registered veterinary technicians if a bill currently before the Ohio House of Representatives is passed.

Through a series of company-building steps, programs and funding, Remesh, what started as the idea of a Kent State University student, has become a star in the Northeast Ohio tech-startup world.

Haithem Zourrig, assistant professor in the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Kent State University at Stark, has received a Best Paper Award in the “Global and Cross-Cultural Marketing” track, from the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators (ACME) during its conference on March 7-10, 2018, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The paper is titled “Changes in Refugees’ Consumption Patterns and Well-Being: A Theoretical Framework and Implications for Service Providers."

Strength, tenacity, courage and unrelenting persistence. These attributes describe the women who have shaped America’s history. Linda Spurlock, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology at Kent State University, is one such woman who is making a huge impact in the field of forensic art.

The President’s Award of Distinction, formerly the President’s Excellence Award, was created as a recognition program to reward staff members who have demonstrated outstanding achievements, service, leadership and dedication to Kent State University in advancing the university’s strategic priorities and core values. Nominations are open now through April 18. Nominations may come from peers, supervisors or other divisional leaders, faculty or students.

Experience and passion mixed with a strong dose of critique for both the students and the professor led Rochelle Hostler, lecturer in Kent State University’s School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies, to be awarded an Outstanding Teaching Award.