Faculty old and new gathered to celebrate Kent State's 25th birthday in May 1935 – the same month that Kent State College became Kent State University.Front row, left to right: Margaret Dunbar, E.C. Stopher, J.L. Blair, President James Orzo Engleman, Raymond E. Manchester, O.H. Williams, Blanche Verder, Harold Rogers, B.F. Renkert, former President John E. McGilvrey, A.O. DeWeese, S.A. Harbourt, Harry Cunningham.Second row: Chester Satterfield, Erich Griebling, Edward Pake, Edgar Packard, M.K. Boswell, Nina Humphrey, Anna Schaftheitlin, (unidentified), Kenneth Pringle, B.F. Engleman, Wil...
Evan Dan, a junior at Solon High School who is enrolled in College Credit Plus (CCP) at Kent State University, received the “Best Paper Award” at the second International Conference on AI-Health (AIHealth 2025) for his research paper: “Detecting Suicide Risk and Exploring Contributing Factors: Classification and Topic Modeling of Social Media Data.” AIHealth is an international conference that brings together professionals and researchers from academia, health care and industry to advance and integrate artificial intelligence in health care worldwide. The conference was held March 9-13 in...
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Congrats to Exercise Physiology doctoral student Chen Li for winning first place in the 2025 American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Aging Interest Group Student Research Award.The awards program recognizes exemplary achievements by promising students and early-career scientists in the field of aging and exercise. This year's theme is "The Global Power of Movement: Translating Lab Bench to Park Bench."Li presented a poster titled, "Impact of Session-by-Session Adaptive Dynamic Cycling on Hand Tremor in People with Parkinson’s Disease."Li will receive the award during an upcoming c...
Each year, the School of Information makes an effort to award scholarships to students with a variety of interests. Students interested in applying for next year's scholarships should visit the School of Information's scholarships page.Below are the awards and award winners who have received our acclaim for 2025. Annu GuptaHealth Informatics Leadership ScholarshipAnnu Gupta is a passionate graduate student in Kent State University’s Health Informatics program and a Clinical Coding Analyst at Optum Healthcare. With over five years of diverse experience in clinical care as a dent...
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