Screenshot of Effie Team Zoom session

A team of advertising students from the Kent State School of Media and Journalism recently earned semi-finalist status in the national competition Effie Collegiate. Modeled after the Effie Awards U.S. competition, Effie Collegiate, now in its 10th year, tasks students with creating marketing communications solutions to address business challenges for real clients. This year, students Olivia Dado, Molly O’Brien and Taylor Thrash earned recognition for their response to a prompt from IBM: To drive consumer relevancy for IBM by creatively leveraging The Weather Channel app as a public facin...

The Brain Health Research Institute Undergraduate Fellows Program offers highly qualified and motivated undergraduate students an immersive program that includes research-intensive experiences in neuroscience as well as mentoring, skills training and career development support.  The culmination of the Fellows' experience is a capstone presentation of their research.

In order to be eligible for a BHRI Undergraduate Fellowship, the following criteria should be considered:

Kent State University at East Liverpool Purinton Hall

Dr. David Dees, dean and CAO of Kent State University at East Liverpool, announced those students named to the Spring 2020 President’s or Dean’s lists. To qualify for the President’s List, students must have a 4.0 grade point average and must have completed 15 or more credit hours during the semester. To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must earn a 3.40 or greater grade point average and must have completed 12 or more credit hours for the semester, the majority at the East Liverpool Campus.       The students and their hometowns are: President’s List Broadv...

Dr. Mou examines algae growing in the lab

Research to protect our water supply continues at Kent State University in the laboratory of Dr. Xiaozhen Mou, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences. Cleaning Up Toxins from Algal Blooms Along with Dr. Teresa Cutright (Professor, University of Akron), Dr. Mou recently received new funding from Ohio Sea Grant to study removal of toxins during the treatment of drinking water. The toxins she will study for this grant are made by certain types of algal blooms that have become common in many lakes, including Lake Erie. The grant is entitled “Removing cyanotoxins in drinking water plants: be...

Toxin Testing in Lab

Research to protect our water supply continues at Kent State University in the laboratory of Dr. Xiaozhen Mou, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences. CLEANING UP TOXINS FROM ALGAL BLOOMS Along with Dr. Teresa Cutright (Professor, University of Akron), Dr. Mou recently received new funding from Ohio Sea Grant to study removal of toxins during the treatment of drinking water. The toxins she will study for this grant are made by certain types of algal blooms that have become common in many lakes, including Lake Erie. The grant is entitled “Removing cyanotoxins in drinking water plants: ...

This is an archived communication.  Access the university's current coronavirus information.  ###### Dear Kent State University Faculty, Staff and Students, I want to express my heartfelt pleasure over today’s decision by the federal government to rescind visa regulations that had required international students to take at least some in-person classes this fall semester in order to stay in the country legally. The new rules had been placing undue pressure on our international students and were forcing universities across the country into potentially harmful situa...

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