Kent State University's Esports team won the Hearthstone finals at the Harrisburg University Esports (HUE) Invitational held in mid-September. The Esports team was among 64 collegiate teams invited to the competition. Kent State participated in both the Hearthstone and the League of Legends competition. The team took the Hearthstone champion title, winning against 10 other universities. Esports is a competitive online gaming sport that has recently emerged into the college sports sphere. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is a digital card game under the Warcraft series of digital games. ...
Professor Jacqueline Marino is a 2019 recipient of Kent State's highest teaching honor, the Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA). Dating back more than 50 years and sponsored by the Kent State Alumni Association, the DTA is presented annually to three full-time faculty members who demonstrate extraordinary teaching in the classroom and a devotion to touching the lives of students. The Alumni Association surprised Professor Marino with the news during her Feature Writing class on Oct. 15, 2019. "I am so moved," Professor Marino said as she was presented with balloons and an in-class c...
Once it begins, Alzheimer’s disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists studying the disease operate the same way – like Kent State University’s own Gemma Casadesus Smith, Ph.D. Since 2016, Casadesus Smith, professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received more than $2.7 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the causes of Alzheimer’s and identify models for better pharmacological treatments. A new two-year, $224,500 project, titled “Characterization of transcr...
Kent State University’s favorite unofficial mascot – the famous black squirrel – needs your help to get ready for Halloween. Squirrel-O-Ween allows the Kent State community to dress up an animated black squirrel with the latest spooky costumes and props and share with friends on social and digital media. The idea is the brainstorm of Tim Priester, interactive designer and developer at University Communications and Marketing. The concept originated years ago when Priester helped create an interactive holiday card for the university. The web-based holiday card involved dressing up a snowman. L...
Kent State University at Ashtabula will hold several special events and educational programs throughout the academic year approaching the 50th Commemoration of the tragic events of May 4, 1970 on the Kent State campus. All events are free and open to the public. The year-long programming launches Tuesday, Oct. 22, with an “Introduction to the May 4th Commemoration and a Factual Chronological Overview of Events from April 30-May 4, 1970” by David Perusek, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology, and associate history professor Bradley Keefer, Ph.D. The program will examine the events ...