Jonathan Maletic smiling for a group photo with his former Ph.D students and their Ph.D students

Programming can be similar to a crossword. Writing in wrong answers can lead one astray, changing the entire outcome of the puzzle.   Kent State University computer science Professor Jonathan Maletic, Ph.D., and computer science alumnus Michael Decker, Ph.D. '17, may just have solved the puzzle.  As Maletic explains it, tracking changes through lines of code can be an impossible task. Changing a line early in the sequence can spark a chain reaction, destroying the entire system. “You have millions of lines of source code in a system. These are big, with multiple people w...

Samuel “Blitz” Bazawul speaks about 'The Color Purple' with host Jennifer Hudson

Samuel “Blitz” Bazawule can hardly contain his own smile and emotions as he talks about the experience of directing the musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s award-winning novel “The Color Purple,” which opened Christmas Day to glowing reviews. The 2005 Kent State University graduate, who earned a degree in business administration, recently joined the movie’s powerhouse cast in a sit-down interview with Jennifer Hudson on “The Jennifer Hudson Show.” Bazawule talked about the challenge of making some of the story’s most iconic scenes, including the moment when Walker herself gave hi...

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