For the second consecutive year, the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine has chosen Kent State University’s Division of Student Affairs as one of the 16 Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs in 2022. The Division of Student Affairs (DSA) offers a variety of student organizations and leadership opportunities. It creates an inclusive, co-curricular environment that engages students in an optimal learning experience. Students are the priority. Kent State is just one of two universities in Ohio to receive this honor. The natio...
Plenty of students who have picked up a warm, cozy hat while in Bowman Hall have Terri Murphy to thank. Throughout this academic year Terri has knitted and shared over 35 caps with students who needed one—especially during this cold winter. “It sure is nice to have a hat on your head on a cold, snowy day,” says Murphy while chatting in 113 Bowman Hall, where she is the administrative assistant for the School of Multidisciplinary Social Sciences and Humanities. Murphy has worked at Kent State University for nearly 21 years and is also an alumna. She began as an accounting major, but after wo...
On March 1, Kent State University’s College of Arts & Sciences hosted a packed house panel discussion on Russia's invasion of Ukraine both in person and virtually. Altogether, nearly 500 people tuned in to learn about the history, politics, and global implications of the invasion. The discussion explored the historical roots of this invasion, how those roots have been distorted by Russian President Vladmir Putin and major Russian media outlets, the regional and international political factors involved, and the invasion’s implications for human rights, human security, and the global orde...
Nomophobia is the fear of being without your mobile phone. It has recently been acknowledged as the number one unusual fear in the state of New York. Kent State University's Andrew Lepp, Ph.D., is a professor who studies addiction between media use and young people. He was featured in the New York Post in an article titled “Nomophobia Strikes Fear in The Hearts of the Phoneless.” Lepp discusses the reasoning behind this unusual fear. “New Yorkers see their phones as an extension of themselves,” Lepp said. “It makes sense that leaving your phone behind feels like leav...
Hanna Shaw, BSN, RN-BC, a current graduate student in the nurse leadership and health system administration concentration, went on her first medical mission trip to Mexico before she even began her nursing practice. “I jumped on a plane with 24-hour’s notice,” remembered Shaw, who has since been on nine trips, six of those for medical missions to Ichmul, which is located in the Yucatán Peninsula, with her church. Prior to the pandemic, Shaw returned to Mexico every six months. For the first time in over two years, Shaw, along with 16 other medical and non-medical volunteers made the week-...
Peggy Shadduck, Ph.D., vice president for Regional Campuses and dean of the College of Applied and Technical Studies at Kent State University, serves as the senior officer responsible for overall leadership of the Kent State Regional Campus system. She oversees the operations of the seven Regional Campuses and the College of Applied and Technical Studies, promotes student enrollment and academic success and is responsible for expanding the visibility, influence and effectiveness of Kent State as a catalyst for regional development. Learn more about Shadduck’s job, experience and personal life ...
IT Manager at Kent State University at Trumbull, Frank Lindsay, was recently featured on WFMJ Youngstown to share his advice on Zoom privacy and security. WFMJ did a follow-up story on an incident occurring at a Warren City Council Meeting held on Zoom, where an unanticipated guest logged in and began yelling racial slurs at the council members. Lindsay offers advice to readers on how to prevent this from happening and what the best Zoom practices are. Lindsay recommends turning your waiting rooms on so that you can only let specific people in the room. Lindsay also suggested requiring a...
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J. Leigh Garcia, assistant professor of print media and photography, was recently commissioned to create a public art project in Cleveland. The piece Garcia contributed called "My Sister's Tortillas" is a 376” x 121.5” digital print of a work originally made with corn husk, handmade washi paper, screenprint, cast paper, digital output, illustration board. "My grandmother and her sisters spent a lot of time in their kitchen in Monterrey, Mexico grinding corn by hand with a metate to prepare masa for handmade tortillas. Two generations later, my sister and I purchase pre-packaged tortillas at t...
Chirality, or the absence of mirror symmetry in a molecule, is a complex topic that Kent State University’s Material Sciences Professor Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., is determined to know more about. Hegmann, director of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, and other Kent State collaborators led an international collaborative research project with contributions from a global team. Their paper “Effects of shape and solute-solvent compatibility on the efficacy of chirality transfer: Nanoshapes in nematic,” based on their research was recently published in the high impact jour...