College of the Arts
Kent State student Stephen Stavnicky won the brass portion of Tuesday Musical's 2022 Annual Scholarship Competition, earning the $2,000 Arden J. Yockey Scholarship. He performed the first movement of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major, the first movement of Sonata for Trumpet and Piano by Eric Ewazen, and “Intrada” by Otto Ketting. Stavnicky is in his final year of Trumpet Performance at Kent State studying under Amanda Bekeny. He performs and teaches in Northeast Ohio both as a trumpet player and a bass/baritone singer. He has worked with groups such as the Cleveland Win...
College of the Arts
The School of Theatre and Dance welcomed alumni Margaret Peebles, B.F.A. Lighting, '14, as the guest lighting designer for the "Kent Dance Ensemble: No Permission Needed" concert, held in E. Turner Stump Theatre April 8-10, 2022. In a special afternoon session Peebles presented and discussed the lighting for the Kent Dance Ensemble concert and her career in New York. Peebles is a New York City-based live entertainment and exhibition lighting designer. Her most recent work includes "Sometime Child" at Theater for the New City and "Right About Now" a...
Farid Fouad, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Kent State University at East Liverpool, was awarded a three-year, $74,954 research grant as part of a subaward on a larger grant that his collaborators at Cleveland State University received. It’s rare for a Kent State regional campus to acquire a research grant such as this, Fouad explained, especially from an organization like the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “I'm really excited to perform at this level and compete nationally with big research institutions and produce results that are attra...
College of Communication & Information
The School of Communication Studies hosts the Communication In Action (CIA) event to showcase student work and the diverse range of career paths that are possible with a Communication Studies major. This year's event will take place April 21, 5-7 p.m. in Taylor Hall, Room 226. The following classes will be showcasing student work: Intercultural Communication This course examines theory and application of communication between people of different cultures and different national systems. The showcase will be featuring photos taken by stu...
KENT, Ohio - Serena Loftus, Ph.D., assistant professor of accounting at the Kent State Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, has been selected as a Top 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professor by Poets&Quants. Loftus joined the college in Fall 2021 where she teaches Intermediate Accounting II. Prior to Kent State, Loftus taught Management Accounting at Tulane University, where she received the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching of Undergraduates Award in 2018. She is also a Certified Management Accountant (CMA). Loftus was recently featured by the Cent...
KENT, Ohio - Seven finalists will compete in Kent State’s John S. and Marlene J. Brinzo Center for Entrepreneurship’s annual CEBIpitch competition for a chance to win a share of $20,000 in cash prizes. The John S. and Marlene J. Brinzo Center for Entrepreneurship is housed in the Kent State Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship. The annual CEBIpitch event helps Kent State entrepreneurship students launch and grow their startup companies and earn funds to support it. The event will take place virtually at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 21. The event is ...