LDES Associate Professor Marty Jencius received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Resilience and Trauma Counseling. This award goes to a counselor with an extensive history of advocacy and exceptional practice in the field of traumatic stress and resilience. Such advocacy and exceptional practice may be demonstrated by a history of research and publication, mentoring, and involvement in the mental health counseling community. Marty will receive this award during the annual American Counseling Association conference in Toronto, Canada, on March ...
READ THE ENTIRE FEBRUARY 2023 EDITION OF INSIDE EQUAL ACCESS This article originally appeared in the February 2023 edition of Inside Equal Access. Have you ever used speech to text on your phone? If so, then you’ve used assistive technology. Assistive technology is any type of technology, program, or design that enables those with disabilities to remove barriers in their everyday lives. As with most accessibility designs, there are many pieces of assistive technology we use in our everyday lives without even realizing their intended purpose, from au...
READ THE ENTIRE FEBRUARY 2023 EDITION OF INSIDE EQUAL ACCESS This article originally appeared in the February 2023 edition of Inside Equal Access. By: Haifa Alsaab Professor Sharon Sciartelli joined Kent State faculty 15 years ago and now she is an associate professor of Psychological Sciences in the Department of Psychological Sciences. Each semester, Dr. Sciartelli teaches General Psychology, Social Psychology, Abnormal Psychology and Psychological Assessment. Her classes range between 75 and 250 students and she is particularly interested in the process of ...
Alumni Spotlight: Tony Nguyen
Tony Nguyen '10, M.L.I.S. is the Executive Director at the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). In this alumni spotlight, Tony explains the importance of volunteering, finding a good mentor and why knowing a little bit about a lot of things is a good generalist mindset for a librarian.
The Kent Dance Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Catherine Meredith, welcomes professional dancer and choreographer Lisa Viola to Kent State as a guest artist Feb. 6-10, 2023. During her residency, Lisa Viola will collaborate with the members of the Kent Dance Ensemble on a work that will appear in the March 24-25, 2023 Kent Dance Ensemble concert. Lisa Viola was born in 1963 in San Fransisco and moved to Honolulu when she was four. She showed talent in ballet classes from a young age and when she was 15, her mother took her to New York for a summer workshop at the S...