Celebrating Black History Month
Join us for a multimedia exploration of the poignant personal story of poet Mwatabu S. Okantah, ’76, interim chair of the Department of Africana Studies, as he tells the story of self-discovery, healing and transformation rendered in original music and poetry set to music, with keyboard artist Vince Robinson and violinist Annie Fullard.
Dr. Angela Spalsbury, Dean of Kent State University at Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center, announced those students named to the Fall 2021 President's and Dean's lists. To qualify for the President's List, students must have a 4.0-grade point average and have completed 15 hours during the semester. To qualify for the Dean's List, students must earn a 3.40 or more grade point average and have completed 12 or more credit hours for the semester. Congratulations! President's List Kaitlynn Bamler, Twinsburg Cammie Benner, Mantua Robert Carpenter, Warren Abigail Hor...
Movies and television take on a life of their own in the online world, and few know that better than Amber Cocchiola, ’22, a senior in Kent State University’s School of Emerging Media and Technology. After a show or movie is released, dedicated fans flock to the online fanfiction community, Archive of Our Own, to spin their own stories — making changes, improvements, or just building out the imaginary world. Cocchiola saw this fan-created content as an opportunity to find out what fans want from entertainment media, and what the biggest studios like Disney, Netflix, DreamWorks and Warner B...
Dr. Thorsten Schmidt (Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics) will be presenting about his research on building DNA to engineer nanoarchitectures and tools for applications in biophysics, structural biology, nanophotonics and nanomedicine.
The amount of pandemic related trash we're producing is raising new concerns Two years ago, as we began to deal with the novel coronavirus, there appeared to be one slight silver lining to the pandemic. Lockdowns, social distancing, and our fear of travel all led to fewer carbon emissions, and fewer resources being consumed around the globe. One example was automobile use in the United States. It declined by 40% in the first half of 2020. Industrial emissions in China, which is the world's biggest source of carbon, were down 18% during that same time. Environmentalists praised the effect...
“I don't even think I fully realized what I was doing or what was going on ‘til I got in the car and my dad and I were driving away, and I burst into tears,” said 20-year-old Kent State student LaDonya Williams after she proved the importance of knowing how to perform the Heimlich maneuver by showing intense bravery and saving a woman’s infant from suffocating earlier this year. LaDonya, a sophomore public relations major, witnessed a car accident on Aug. 22 while she was on her way home from her grandmother’s house with her father, long-time Akron police detective, Donny Williams. LaD...
For Spring 2022 we will be hosting the First Generation Scholars' Circle for graduate students, faculty, and staff who identify as first generation to have the opportunity to network with one another and learn about one another's research. If you are interested in attending and/or presenting at the First Gen Scholars' Circle, please complete this brief registration form.
For Spring 2022 we will be hosting the First Generation Scholars' Circle for graduate students, faculty, and staff who identify as first generation to have the opportunity to network with one another and learn about one another's research. If you are interested in attending and/or presenting at the First Gen Scholars' Circle, please complete this brief registration form.
