Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, received a fellowship (about $2,000) from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST), to attend the Summer Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems, June 27–July 1, 2016, in Stevenson, Washington.
Lala Hajibayova, School of Library and Information Science
Bethany Lanese, assistant professor of health policy and management in the College of Public Health at Kent State University, has been awarded the 2016-2017 Blackboard Exemplary
Kent State University was one of 51 schools to compete nationally in Game Day Challenge, the fourth-annual event hosted by the College and University Recycling Coalition, RecycleMania, Keep America Beautiful and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s WasteWise.
The Game Day Challenge is a national waste minimization and recycling competition held during football games to increase awareness of recycling at universities across the country.
Kent State placed second in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) schools in pounds recycled per person category.
Eight School of Visual Communication Design students were awarded membership to the prestigious International Society of Typographic Designers. The assessment, conducted in late February by an international team of design professionals and academics, involves a rigorous examination of editorial and typographic design.
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Kent Student Center Programming, part of the Center for Student Involvement, hosted the 13th annual Rock the Runway.
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Two academic scholarships are helping Kent State University fashion merchandising major Amari Thomas succeed inside and outside the classroom.
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Could the way flies and butterflies drink nectar and other fluids be imitated for use in medicine, potentially to deliver life-saving drugs to the human body?
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The Jenkins Student-Athlete Academic Centeris the latest advancement in Kent State University Intercollegiate Athletics' initiative to improve student-athlete welfare.
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Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor of biological sciences in Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences, received a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.
Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, delivered a poster presentation titled “Developing Standards for Usability in Electronic Health Records: Challenges and Opportunities” at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) annual meeting in Chicago on Nov. 15, 2016. (Authors: Mitra A. Rocca, Rebecca Meehan, John Ritter, Gary Dickinson, Kandace Kelly, Lauralee Barrett, Ethan Budreau, Constance Johnson.)
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POSTED: Thursday, November 10, 2016 02:45 PM
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.
