Kent State University at Tuscarawas Animation Game Design (AGD) students and faculty successfully participated in the annual GameFest Akron held at the Akron Art Museum Nov. 8 through Nov. 12, 2021. The sold-out event featured an interactive online gallery of indie video games built by Kent State AGD students and faculty, a meet and greet with game designers and opportunities to test new games. “The Kent State Tuscarawas AGD booth was very popular, and we had the opportunity to speak with potential and incoming students who were very interested in the program,” said Chris Totten, assistant ...
A Kent State University professor in the College of Arts and Sciences is once again on Clarivate's list of Highly Cited Researchers in the world. Mietek Jaroniec, Ph.D., professor in Kent State’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a member of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, is again ranked in the top one percent of chemists and materials scientists, based on citations in Clarivate’s Web of Science database. His area of research expertise is in adsorption, chemical separations, and chemistry of nanomaterials, which he describes as an "exciting an...
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Stark GEODES club creates program for local elementary students Students in the Stark Campus Geology Club, the GEODES, recently made a 20-minute video presentation about rocks for the 3rd-grade classes at Judith Resnick CLC of Akron Public Schools. The teachers showed the video and then the students did a live Question and Answer session over Zoom with the class. The 3rd graders loved the video and asked excellent questions. The teachers want this to be a yearly experience. Stark Campus Geodes; pictured from left to right: Jeremy Salvo, Sebastian Constable, Casey Worges, Ryan Codispo...
The Division of Student Affairs celebrated those who make a difference at Kent State with its first-ever Equity, Identity, and Success recognition week held November 15-19. For over 10 years, Student Accessibility Services (SAS) had a tradition of honoring staff and faculty who have aided students with disabilities through a unique recognition program. When the Equity, Identity, and Success (EIS) Pillar was formed last year by way of the new Division of Student Affairs strategic plan, an expansion of the recognition program was set into motion to include the multiple populations it serves. ...
Driving through Ohio’s farmland to meet my students, I felt a calm simplicity. Bright white laundry swung in the breeze. Corn was as it should be knee-high by the fourth of July. Women in their clean, simple, self-made dresses wore their plain, solid colors pinned or buttoned closed. Their faces were scrubbed clean of makeup. Hair pulled up snug under their tell-tale white bonnets. The men I imagined to be sweltering under their straw, brimmed hats and their signature beards. They barely noticed as I pass their horse and buggy, clomping down the road, tapping out Amish Country’s heartb...