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![David Hacker, associate professor of geology at Kent State University at Trumbull, poses for a photo near a rock outcropping in the Gorge Metro Park in Summit County. Hacker has been selected as Kent State’s Scholar of the Month. David Hacker, associate professor of geology at Kent State University at Trumbull, poses for a photo near a rock outcropping in the Gorge Metro Park in Summit County. Hacker has been selected as Kent State’s Scholar of the Month.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/Hacker1_0.jpg?VersionId=F3Cnr8ltJjYBqLkrq9v.aYvLRyUtNFcm)
Scholar of the Month
David Hacker
Associate Professor of Geology
College of Arts and Sciences
Kent State University at Trumbull
2000-present
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![Kent State University student Anna Hoffman, a global communication studies and political science major, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the country’s efforts to save its national language. (Photo credit: Alex Ledet) Kent State University student Anna Hoffman, a global communication studies and political science major, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the country’s efforts to save its national language. (Photo credit: Alex Ledet)](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/Photo-of-Anna-Hoffman-photo-credit-Alex-Ledet.jpg?VersionId=A2NIpSel5GKViH49DAItclWTZhKrN2zk)
Anna Hoffman, a Kent State University global communication studies and political science major from Kent, Ohio, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the country’s efforts to save its national language. Her research project was funded through a fellowship from the …
Communication studies student’s project earns international media attention for research efforts
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![Kent State students, including members of its athletics teams, fraternities and sororities, joined community members to restore the Mitchell/McClelland Ballpark in the McElrath neighborhood of Ravenna Township, Ohio. Kent State students, including members of its athletics teams, fraternities and sororities, joined community members to restore the Mitchell/McClelland Ballpark in the McElrath neighborhood of Ravenna Township, Ohio.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/Community_Service_Honor_Roll.jpg?VersionId=CwZqdOX8MteRBPVH1hOww3CnQkeIhpwg)
Kent State University has been named to the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which is the highest federal recognition an institution can receive for its commitment to community, service-learning and civic engagement.
Stephanie Haugh of Kent State University’s women’s soccer team has been named the female recipient of the 2015 Bob James Memorial Award by the Mid-American Conference Faculty Athletics Representatives. The announcement was made by the league office today.
For a fifth time, university employees give Kent State high marks
The Kent State University Museum will be closed for maintenance on Saturday, July 25, and will reopen Sunday, July 26. Sunday hours are noon to 4:45 p.m.
For additional information, please call the museum at 330-672-3450 or visit www.…
The final public meeting for the Kent State University Airport Master Plan has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, from 6-8 p.m. at the Stow-Munroe Falls High School Auditorium, located at 3227 Graham Road in Stow, Ohio. The first public meeting was held in 2013 to introduce…