Kent State University commemorates the Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday to honor the slain civil rights leader on Monday, Jan. 16. All Kent State campuses are closed, with the 2023 Spring Semester and classes beginning Tuesday, Jan. 17. The university’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration will take place Thursday, Feb. 2, at 5:30 p.m., when Bernice A. King, daughter of the civil rights leader, will be the keynote speaker. King, who was just 5 years old when her father was assassinated, serves as chief executive officer of the Martin Luther King...
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recently announced that Teresa Villa-Ignacio, Ph.D., an associate professor of French and Translation in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies at Kent State University, is one of 22 translators selected to receive a Literature Translation Fellowship of $10,000. This fellowship will support the translation of Anne-Marie Albiach's La Mezzanine: The Last Account of Catarina Quia into English. In total, the NEA will award $300,000 in grants to support the translation into English of works written in 10 different languages from 16 countrie...
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EHHS grad Linda Kohl Klark, BS ’81, Finley, OK, was featured in the TimesReporter. A native of Newcomerstown, she recently retired in Oklahoma after spending years working in recreation and outdoor education. --Photo courtesy TimesReporter ...