SPCS faculty member Molly Merryman was selected to join the inaugural class of Kent State University's Design Innovation (DI) Faculty Fellows program. The fellowship is based in the DI HUB, where Molly will focus on her project “Queering Academic and Scholarly Space: Theoretical, Pedagogical and Applied Work,” while supporting Design Innovation Hub outreach and teaching, as well as building meaningful connections between DI and Peace and Conflict Studies. This project continues to build on Merryman's work as research director for Queer Britain, the United Kingdom's national LGBTQ+ museum. ...

School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kent State University Visiting Researcher/Visiting Practitioner Program: Call for Applications   The Visiting Researcher (VR)/Visiting Practitioner (VP) Program provides funding for an expert in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies to spend up to three months at the School of Peace and Conflict Studies (SPCS), to undertake research. The funding will support the costs of travel to Kent State as well as accommodation and subsistence whilst located at SPCS. During their time at SPCS the VR/VP will be expected to (i) undertake research that wi...

Everyone expects Death Valley in July to be "hot" and Minneapolis in February to be "cold", right? Much research has been done to study the extreme temperature events that take place in these and other regions. But, what about 81 degrees in Anchorage in July or 2 degrees in Dallas in February? Such events are often called "relative" extreme temperature events – relative to the time of the year and how acclimatized the local population is to them. Less studied, though potentially more impactful, relative temperature extremes are a topic that two Kent State University geography p...

In advance of Monday’s observance of the Juneteenth federal holiday, we asked members of the Kent State University community to reflect on the federal holiday and share their thoughts on what they hope it means for the university. "Growing up in Texas, I can envision what it might have been like more than a century ago when Union army soldiers first arrived in Galveston to inform some of the country's last remaining enslaved Black Americans that the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed. They were free! What a jubilant day that must have been. More than 150 years later, we celebrate Jun...

Lamar R. Hylton, Ph.D., Kent State University’s senior vice president for student affairs, has announced Richantae Johnson, J.D., as the interim director of gender equity and Title IX coordinator, effective July 1.  Johnson currently serves as the compliance investigator and deputy Title IX coordinator in Kent State’s Office of Gender Equity and Title IX. She is responsible for ensuring the university’s compliance with state and federal law relating to Title IX, Title VII, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the Clery Act by conducting investigations, spearheading training and pr...

On June 2, 2022 Colombian musicians from the Glauser School of Music proudly represented Kent State University when they performed alongside The American Pops Orchestra at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House for a concert celebrating the 200 year bilateral partnership between the two countries. Ricardo Sepúlveda, assistant professor in charge of leading the Kent Blossom Music Festival, has been involved with various collaborations with the Colombian Embassy in the United States. It is through these collaborations that Sepúlveda was approached by the Embassy to recruit Colombian music...