Freshman speech pathology and audiology major Jayla Hartmann Starks, of Cincinnati, tackled the climbing wall at the Warren Student Recreation and Wellness Center on Monday evening. She only started climbing three weeks ago, but she's now certified. "I feel so much stronger. My mindset is so much better. I feel encouraged," Hartmann Starks said. Monday and Tuesday evenings from 5:30-8 p.m, through Dec. 13, the center offers a free Introduction to Climbing clinic. For more information, visit www.kent.edu/recwell/outdoor-skills-clinics. ...
The School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration in the College of Education, Health and Human Services, recently partnered with the Ohio Restaurant Association Education Foundation to host dozens of educators at the annual Ohio ProStart® Teacher Institute at the Design Innovation Hub Auditorium on the Kent Campus. Ohio ProStart is a national, two-year training program that brings together high school students interested in careers in Ohio’s hospitality industry, as well as educators who implement the ProStart® program across the state. “Teacher Institute allows educators to conn...
Kent State’s Student Multicultural Center (SMC) will be renamed the E. Timothy Moore Student Multicultural Center in honor of a beloved longtime member of the university community whose legacy left an enormous imprint on the university. Moore, ’73, MA ’77, MFA ’83, Associate Dean Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pan-African Studies, passed away unexpectedly in 2021. The center is being renamed in recognition of a $50,000 gift from D’Andra Mull, Ph.D., a former student who graduated from Kent State in 2002. A...
On the International Day of Peace, September 21st, 2022, speakers Shampa Biswas and Vincent J. Intondi will deliver talks on "Race, Colonialism, and the Bomb," where they explore the intersections between race, colonialism, and nuclear weapons. Join us from 12pm - 1:15pm by following this link: https://tinyurl.com/peaceday2022 Shampa Biswas is Judge and Mrs. Timothy A. Paul Chair of Political Science and Professor of Politics at Whitman College, as well as an international relations theorist specializing in post-colonial theory and nuclear politics. She is the author of Nuclear Desi...
Using poetry to explore Akron, Ohio residents’ sense of belonging to their neighborhoods is the goal of a new project by Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center. “Mapping Akron: A Poetic Exploration of Home,” was awarded a $125,000 Akron Art Challenge grant from the Akron-based Knight Foundation, which was matched by an additional $125,000 that Wick raised to bring the project into fruition, said David Hassler, director of the poetry center. The finished product will be an interactive poetry map of Akron that will be displayed in pop-up kiosks at various locations throughout t...
Last Friday, a group of about 10 Kent State students received a guided tour of one of the most unique spaces on the Kent Campus – the Herrick Conservatory. It’s the large greenhouse that’s attached to the north side of Cunningham Hall. The 5,500-square-foot facility is home to a large and diverse selection of plants, plus some fish and a couple of turtles. Highlights of the collection include a 30-year-old rubber tree and strawberry guava tree, banana trees, flowering plants and vegetables, succulents, tropical varieties and even carnivorous plants. The tour ...
FAIRPORT, New York – Eileen Merberg, Executive Director of Alpha Lambda Delta Academic Honor Society, announced that the Kent State University chapter has won the Maintaining the Flame Award for their activities during the 2021-22 academic year. The chapter won its second Order of the Torch Award in 2021. Chapters who are awarded the Order of the Torch are ineligible to apply for the award for the next four years. To reward continued excellence, the Board of Directors bestows the Maintaining the Flame Award to chapters who are ineligible for the Order of the Torch. Winners receive a pin to aff...
Nearly 40 people from the Kent State community enjoyed a tour of the flowers and trees of Front Campus during part two of the “Walk & Talk: Flowers and Foliage” event, thanks to the Employee Wellness and Health Promotion program and the grounds crew on Friday, Sept. 16. Rebekkah Berryhill, grounds manager, gave the lunch-hour tour, which started behind Merrill Hall in the Beck Family Memorial Gardens in ''Behind the Brain Plaza.'' Aided by groundskeeper Andrea Smith, the tour began by discussing the impressive carved elements of the garden - most of which were sculpted on-site. ...