A fiery image, taken by photographer and Kent State University alumnus Jerry Jividen at the December Star of the West mill fire in downtown Kent, is featured on the cover of a national firefighter magazine. The photo appears on the cover of the February issue of Firehouse magazine. Kent Fire Chief Bill Myers said his department was honored when the photo Jividen took appeared on the cover of the “very popular, nationally recognized firefighting magazine.” Jividen, who graduated from Kent State with a degree in earth science in 1969 and earned a master’s degree in...
Kent State University will be the first stop for dozens of Fulbright graduate students before matriculating to their graduate programs across the United States. It's all part of a grant awarded to Amanda Johnson, Ph.D., director of the Gerald H. Read Center, who will lead the graduates participating this summer in seminars on American higher education, educational technology, leadership, and discipline-specific topics. Additionally, the grantees will receive advanced academic English coursework from the English Language Institute. Johnson, principal investigator, was award...
Homeschool students felt right at home on campus during the Homeschool Engineering Workshop held earlier this month in conjunction with the engineering department and the makerspace at Kent State University at Tuscarawas. More than 40 homeschool students from Tuscarawas and Stark counties, aged 5 to 18, participated in the firsthand workshop. Middle school- and high school-aged students learned about fuel cell energy, while elementary-aged school students discovered how propeller-driven vehicles operate, providing all students a firsthand look into the Kent State Tuscarawas Engineering Tech...
Congratulations to LDES Associate Professor and Doctoral Program Coordinator Cassie Storlie, Ph.D. Storlie has been elected to serve as the 78th president of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES). Storlie will assume her role as ACES President-Elect on July 1, 2023. She has served ACES most recently as co-chair of the Strategic Planning Committee. She is a former ACES Secretary and was president of the North Central Region of ACES. For more information about ACES, visit acesonline.net. ...
Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences, Natalie Caine-Bish, Ph.D., RD, LD, has been selected by a committee of her peers for the Nutrition and Dietetic Educators and Preceptors (NDEP) North Central Region Outstanding Dietetic Educator Award in the Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) Program category for 2023. The Outstanding Dietetics Educator Award recognizes the teaching, mentoring, and leadership activities of faculty in ACEND®-accredited dietetics education programs. One educator can be selected from each of the five program types in each geographi...