Peggy Nzomo, University Libraries, is the 2016 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) International Relations Committee’s “Bogle-Pratt International Library Travel Fund.” She received this award at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress held Aug. 13-19 in Columbus, Ohio. She also was one of 50 librarians who received the 2016 IFLA Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Fellows scholarship.
Peggy Nzomo, University Libraries
Kent State University was awarded high honors from the Pride of CASE V Awards Program for 2015 for the “Browns' Yearbook Ad,” receiving the silver award in Excellence in Printing, and the “University College Identity,” receiving the silver award in Best Graphic Identity/Logo.
Six Kent State University student teams competed in the third annual LaunchNET Idea Olympics in the University Library. The event is a lead-in to the regional ideaLabs business idea competition, sponsored by the Northeast Ohio Entrepreneurship Education Consortium (EEC). Eleven colleges and universities will compete in the seventh annual event, which will be hosted this year at John Carroll University.
We are looking for faculty and staff to nominate exceptional students for the 2016 Homecoming Court. Each department, university office, residence hall or athletic team can nominate one king candidate and one queen candidate. The deadline for students to apply is April 8!
Students must have 78 hours currently and be enrolled in the 2016 Fall Semester.
For more information, visit www.ksualumni.org/courtapplication.
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Staff at Kent State University’s Center for Corporate and Professional Development decided to support a worthy cause by delivering supplies to a local pet shelter.
Kent State University employee Angela Bertka, special assistant in the Office of General Counsel, has won a weekend getaway after entering to win a thank-you gift for completing the Kent State Climate Survey. Bertka will win her choice of Amish Country, Cleveland, Geneva-on-the-Lake or Kalahari.
As part of the Summit Street: Building a Better Way improvement project, the Summit Street/Loop Road intersection north of Summit Street will be closed during spring break, from approximately 6 a.m. Monday, March 21, to the evening of Friday, March 25. The closing is being done during a time when traffic to and from the Kent Campus is greatly reduced.
Here are some things to keep in mind if you will be traveling that part of Summit Street on March 21-25.
Marcia Lei Zeng and Yin Zhang, School of Library and Information Science, presented (with Hongshan Li and Serhiy Polyakov) “Exploring Smart Data Approaches to the History of Innovation and Invention at Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University,” on a Digital Humanities Panel at the 2015 Asian Digital Library conference in December 2015 in Seoul, Korea.
Catherine Smith, School of Library and Information Science, authored “Domain-independent search expertise: A description of procedural knowledge gained during guided instruction” in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(7), 1305-1322, 2015.
Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, is co-author (with Jodi Kearns, Ph.D., University of Akron) of an article titled “Shannon Goes to the Museum: Drawing Lines Across Boundaries."
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POSTED: Friday, October 28, 2016 10:46 AM
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.
