Congratulations to PhD candidate Laura Mendez, who has been awarded the United States Institute for Peace: Peace Scholar Fellowship! Laura’s work uses critical discourse analysis to examine the “self-help” discourse deployed in foreign aid packages and interpretive phenomenological analysis of interviews collected in the field to examine how that discourse is then understood and used by aid recipients ...

Chia-Ling Kuo, Ph.D., professor of Educational Technology, received the Platinum Teaching Recognition Award for Creative Computing in an Undergraduate Educational Technology Course. The teaching development awards program recognizes actions that enhance teaching and learning at Kent State University. The program allows instructors to earn tiered awards (bronze, silver, gold & platinum) for their efforts to learn about, implement, evaluate and investigate evidence-based instructional practices. All instructors at Kent State, including graduate students and faculty of all a...

Elena Novak, Ph.D., associate professor in the Environmental Science and Design Research Institute, received the Platinum Teaching Recognition Award for Creative Computing in an Undergraduate Educational Technology Course. The teaching development awards program recognizes actions that enhance teaching and learning at Kent State University. The program allows instructors to earn tiered awards (bronze, silver, gold & platinum) for their efforts to learn about, implement, evaluate and investigate evidence-based instructional practices. All instructors at Kent State, including gr...

Over the past several weeks, Kent State University faculty and staff, along with a select group of students, have traveled to Kigali, Rwanda. Both students and staff participated in the global peace conference, Peace Education in an Era of Crisis, which took place July 11-13 and was sponsored by Kent State’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kent State’s Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, the University of Rwanda and the Aegis Trust. While in Kigali, a group of Kent State students is taking part in the three-week Kigali Sum...

Meet Shruti Kate, a Graduate College Fellow and doctoral student in the Educational Psychology program. Read on to learn more about Shruti's favorite places in Kent, what they enjoy doing in free time and what advice they have for incoming graduate students. Where is your hometown? I am from Pune, India. Why did you choose Kent State University? Kent State University has a stellar academic reputation. The university has a wide selection of programs and majors that are ideal for my educational and professional ambitions. The faculty members are world-renowned spec...