The Student Leadership Awards and Transition Ceremony is an event in which we celebrate and recognize our student leaders, organizations, and advisors for their contributions to the Kent State community during the current academic year. As part of the evening's celebration, the Center for Student Involvement will conduct a student organization officer transition ceremony, honoring the accomplishments of the outgoing officers and welcoming the incoming officers to their positions.
Jan. 26 – All Kent State Campuses Closed
Jan. 26 – All Kent State Campuses Closed Jan. 26 Due to Expected Snow – Classes May Meet Online
Jenya Soprunova, Ph.D.
Kenneth B. Cummins Professorship of Mathematics
College of Arts and Sciences
Previous REUs
REU 2009
Students: Toan Duc Dinh, Michael Donzella, Thomas Dinitz, Matthew Hartman, Lizbee Collins-Wildman, Matthew Hoffman, Benjamin Mackey, Catherine Pizzano
Advisors: Mikhail Chebotar, Jenya Soprunova, Andrew Tonge, Laura Smithies
REU Publications
- Nicolas F. Beike, Rachel Carleton, David G. Costanzo, Colin Heath, Mark L. Lewis, Kaiwen Lu, and Jamie D. Pearce, Finite solvable tidy groups whose orders are divisible by two primes, São Paulo J. Math. Sci. 18 (2024), no. 2, 1651–1669.
- David G. Costanzo, Mark L. Lewis, Stefano Schmidt, Eyob Tsegaye and Gabe Udell, Characterizing finite groups whose enhanced power graphs have universal vertices, Czechoslovak Math. J.
Application
Application Deadline: Friday February 13, 2026
The application is available at https://etap.nsf.gov/award/8301/opportunity/11688.
To complete your application, you will be asked to provide the following:
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