Division of University Communications and Marketing
We hope the fall semester has been great so far, Golden Flashes! September has been filled with lots of fun events and social media content. Take a look at our top-performing posts from last month. Instagram Our top Instagram post was a trend seen all over Instagram and TikTok, so we decided to give it a Golden Flashes twist. This Reel received more than 39,000 views! View this post on Instagram ...
Kent State University welcomed its newest director for the School of Theatre and Dance in July after a nationwide search to fill the position. Tony Hardin grew up loving the arts, pursuing a career in scenic, lighting and projection design. He recently served as an associate professor and chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Kentucky before becoming a director at Kent State. Learn more about Hardin as he answers five questions. Why did you decide to come to Kent State? Kent State values the arts. They don’t only say that, but they also live those words in t...
Over half of the described species in the world are insects. Although many people think of insects as pests, they play vital roles and have a big impact on our invaluable ecosystems, as pollinators, helping break down wastes and as an essential food source for many other organisms. Even economically speaking the impact is huge, with insect pollination services estimated at $518 billion annually. However, insect populations are declining at an estimated rate of 1-2% per year. This biodiversity loss is a global phenomenon.Several recent studies have sounded the alarm about insect ...
Noted educator and award-winning author Bettina Love, Ph. D., shared her story and her message of improving education through abolitionist teaching, Black joy and anti-racism in the the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Thursday. Love, who is the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, was the keynote speaker of Kent State's 2022 Anti-Racism Conference. To learn more about Love and this conference, visit: https://www.kent.edu/antiracismefforts/keynote-speaker ...
Biodiversity is a common ecological term, but how many of us truly grasp the gravity of its power to sustain life at every level? If you are a student of Josephine Naji, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology at Kent State Geauga, you won’t just learn about the concept through reading assignments, research and lectures. Dr. Naji drives home her lessons on biological diversity with up-close, in-person, hands-on field trips out in nature and among the prehistoric exhibits at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. It is when students are learning to identify ephemeral spring wildflowers at...
College of the Arts
Kent State University School of Art senior lecturer, Juliann Dorff, has been named The Ohio Art Educator of the Year for her outstanding contributions and commitment to art education. The OAEA Art Educator of the Year award is given to art educators who have previously received other OAEA awards within their division. Recipients have exhibited dedication to OAEA and art education over their years in the field. Juliann Dorff is the former president of the Special Needs in Art Education Interest Group of the National Art Education Association (NAEA) and currently is a senior lectur...
Steve Sefner, local author and former Kent State sports announcer, appeared at the Kent State Bookstore on Oct. 1 to promote his 2022 book recounting the tale of the 2001-2002 Kent State men’s basketball season. That season was Kent State’s first and only appearance in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, marking the greatest single-season record in Mid-American Conference history. Twenty years later, Sefner, the play-by-play announcer for Kent State basketball that year, wrote “The Golden Dream” to commemorate what is considered one of the greatest Cinderella stories ...
Volunteers from Main Street Kent decorated downtown sidewalks and the Main Street bridge in advance of Rainbow Weekend, October 7 and 8. For the complete schedule of events, including the Rainbow Run, benefiting the Kent State LGBTQ+ Emergency Fund, visit: https://www.kent.edu/lgbtq/rainbow-run-5k and https://www.mainstreetkent.org/events/kent-rainbow-weekend/. ...