Marianne Martens, School of Library and Information Science

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, organized and chaired a session, “The Chicago Renaissance: The Postmodern and Postcolonial Development,” at the American Literature Association Conference on May 26-29, 2016, in San Francisco, California.

Paul Sherman, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, delivered a presentation titled “User Onboarding: Patterns and Anti-Patterns Explored” at the June 23 UXPA Cleveland meeting.

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, authored “The Triangular Vision of Richard Wright: The African American Poet’s Achievement of Solace by Means of Eastern Poetics and African Philosophy” in Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad, ed. Virginia Whatley Smith (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016): 198-213.

Cindy Kristof, University Libraries, authored “Data and Copyright” in the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 42(6); 2016, 20-22. 

Rebecca A. Meehan, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, is lead author of an article titled “Increasing EHR System Usability Through Standards: Conformance Criteria in the HL7 EHR-System Functional Model,” published online in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Aug. 24, 2016).

Each year, Kent State University honors full-time, nontenure-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. The Outstanding Teaching Award is presented by the University Teaching Council. The three award recipients will be honored at the University Teaching Council’s Celebrating College Teaching conference luncheon and awards ceremony on Oct. 21.

This year’s finalists for the Outstanding Teaching Award are:

Anticipation and excitement consumed every inch of his face. Grinning from ear to ear, Matthew Dougard knew his dream of flying was about to come true.

At the Kent State University Board of Trustees meeting held on Sept. 30, 2016, the Board approved the planning and execution of a major comprehensive campaign. This campaign will be the largest in the history of Kent State, with its goals and priorities to be developed and pursued in collaboration with senior leadership, the university community and the Kent State University Foundation.