Kent State University at Tuscarawas Animation Game Design (AGD) students and faculty successfully participated in the annual GameFest Akron held at the Akron Art Museum Nov. 8 through Nov. 12, 2021. The sold-out event featured an interactive online gallery of indie video games built by Kent State AGD students and faculty, a meet and greet with game designers and opportunities to test new games. “The Kent State Tuscarawas AGD booth was very popular, and we had the opportunity to speak with potential and incoming students who were very interested in the program,” said Chris Totten, assistant ...
A key element of the mission of the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University—and an objective of many researchers across the University—is to better understand our environment and the issues and processes that bring about change. Researchers in our Department of Geography primarily study patterns of climates, landforms, vegetation, soils, water and people. They use many tools and techniques in their work including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and online mapping such as Google Earth. They partner and collaborate with resea...
Dear Kent State University Staff Members, We are now into the next phase of the university’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement. We know that many of you already are compliant with this requirement, and we are grateful for your cooperation in helping to keep our community safe and healthy as we continue to fight the COVID-19 virus. Get Vaccinated Now! Employees are required to either get vaccinated against COVID-19 and submit evidence of their vaccination or receive an approved exemption from being vaccinated and participate in the university’s required testing protocol. Vacc...
The Division of Human Resources’ Employee Wellness team seeks your feedback regarding current employee health and wellness at Kent State via a brief questionnaire, which will take you less than five minutes to complete if you have not done so already (originally distributed via an Employee Wellness email on 11/17/21). All employees who complete this questionnaire by December 3, 2021, will be entered into a drawing for a $50 gift card to Target, Grubhub, Panera, or 'dinner and a movie' (winner's choice). You could be on...
Davin Ebanks, professor and head of glass, and Peter Christian Johnson, professor and head of ceramics and interim director for the School of Art, curated a regional group exhibition called “Kindred Objects: Ceramics & Glass Art from the Western Reserve.” The exhibition features more than 20 established and emerging artists and is on view at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve in Cleveland from November 4, through December 18, 2021. Read the full story. ...
Members of the Kent State University community invites faculty, staff and students to join them in creating Holiday Peace Baskets on Saturday, December 11, 2021, between 9 and 11:30 a.m. at the King Kennedy Center, 6660 Garfield Road in Ravenna. If you cannot make it at 9 a.m., please come when you can. In 2019, this activity created more than 100 gift baskets for needy families in the area. COVID interrupted the program last year, but last summer a “Christmas in July” was held for the participants of the Jake’s Kids program. Donations such as kitchen a...
November 30, 2021 is Giving Tuesday and we hope you will again join us in supporting the KSU Museum. Your gift to the Museum's General Fund allows us to continue offering FREE admission to the community every Sunday and is sincerely appreciated. Giving Tuesday begins at 12 a.m. Midnight on Tuesday, November 30. The Kent State University Foundation has pledged a pool of matching funds to double the value of all donations until the money runs out. This pool of matching funds usually runs out by 10 a.m. on the morning of Giving Tuesday. The earlier you make your gift, t...
A Kent State University professor in the College of Arts and Sciences is once again on Clarivate's list of Highly Cited Researchers in the world. Mietek Jaroniec, Ph.D., professor in Kent State’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a member of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, is again ranked in the top one percent of chemists and materials scientists, based on citations in Clarivate’s Web of Science database. His area of research expertise is in adsorption, chemical separations, and chemistry of nanomaterials, which he describes as an "exciting an...
Stark GEODES club creates program for local elementary students Students in the Stark Campus Geology Club, the GEODES, recently made a 20-minute video presentation about rocks for the 3rd-grade classes at Judith Resnick CLC of Akron Public Schools. The teachers showed the video and then the students did a live Question and Answer session over Zoom with the class. The 3rd graders loved the video and asked excellent questions. The teachers want this to be a yearly experience. Stark Campus Geodes; pictured from left to right: Jeremy Salvo, Sebastian Constable, Casey Worges, Ryan Codispo...