Kent State University will host the kickoff event for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read Northeast Ohio, a community reading program celebrating “An American Sunrise” by Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, the first Native American poet laureate of the United States. The kickoff event will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 12, beginning promptly at 7 p.m. in the Kiva, located in the Student Center, 800 E. Summit Street, Kent, Ohio. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is appreciated. A live stream of this event will be offered to virtual viewers who will receive a link upo...
Join us for a special keynote address and to celebrate the grand opening of the new Brain Health Research Institute Collaboratories and Research Labs.
Keynote Presentation by Earl Miller, ’85, Ph.D.
One Journey from 20th to 21st Century Neuroscience
3-4 p.m. - Kent State University KIVA
In late Sept., several Kent State University Glauser School Music Education faculty members and doctoral students presented their latest work during research poster sessions at the biennial Symposium of the Society for Music Teacher Education (SMTE). The 2021 symposium was held virtually. During the three-day event, Jay Dorfman, Ph.D., associate professor and coordinator of music education, presented a study titled “Rhetoric from the Dark Side: Examining Music Teacher Education Faculty Transitions to Administrative Roles.” The survey study included data from 57 participants whose responses ...
In celebration of National LGBTQ+ History Month, we are shining a spotlight on MDJ’s Queer Cinema course taught by Assistant Professor of Media and Journalism and Communication Studies, Dr. Karisa Butler-Wall. The course focuses on queer filmmaking and spectatorship as a critical practice that reflects shifting understandings of gender and sexual nonnormatively across space and time. “From classical Hollywood cinema to contemporary independent and documentary filmmaking, this class examines how particular historical and cult...
The sixth annual Rainbow Run fundraising “fun run” will take place on Friday, October 8 at 7 p.m. on Kent State’s Risman Plaza. All proceeds from the event will benefit the university's LGBTQ+ Emergency Fund. The Rainbow Run is one of most important fundraising events of the year for this fund that’s available to assist any Kent State student who identifies as LGBTQ+ and is in financial crisis. This fund, started in 2010, is managed through Kent State’s LGBTQ+ Center. Ken Ditlevson, director of the center, describes the fund as a vital safety net, a lifeline for students who are struggling f...
Two Communication Studies faculty members were honored at the Ohio Communication Association's 2021 Conference, "Resilience Through Communication," Oct. 1-2, 2021, at Youngstown State University. This was the Association's 85th annual conference. Professor Nichole Egbert, Ph.D., earned the Distinguished Scholar Award, which honors the contributions of one of Ohio's top scholars. Egbert's research examines interpersonal and relational topics in health communication, most notably social support and health literacy. Professor Erin Hollenbaugh, Ph.D., nominated Egbert for the award an...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, students have decided to come back to campus and in-person learning, a trend that is evident in the newest class of Golden Flashes, up 4% from last year’s incoming class. As incoming freshmen fill the campus, fellow Flashes can get to know their new classmates. The class of 2025 is filled with students from around the country and the world, with the highest average GPA on record at KSU and from a wide variety of backgrounds, whether that’s socioeconomic, race, gender or sexuality or more. With an increase in enrollment this year, and an increase in graduatio...
I am Dr. Caroline Obiageli Emeka-Ogbonna, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar from Nigeria, currently hosted in the Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education. My study visit is to develop a program and curriculum of critical thinking courses for the Nigerian Defense Academy (NDA), my country’s premier military university, as well as our wider educational system.
Kent State University has been recognized in Newsweek’s 2021 list of the Best Maker Schools in Higher Education, an international list that includes some of the most prestigious universities throughout the world. Kent State shares the honor with 200 universities worldwide, including University of Cambridge in the UK; University of Toronto in Canada; Paris College of Art in France and Lunghwa University of Science and Technology in Taiwan. “This year for the first time Newsweek has teamed up with Make:, publisher of Make: magazine and books, to find The Best Maker Scho...
