Kent State University will represent a full third of the 12 teams accepted to the I-Corps @ Akron Summer 2019 Cohort. The University of Akron Research Foundation announced the selections on May 29. I-Corps @ Akron is a public-private partnership program, developed by the University of Akron Research Foundation and funded by the National Science Foundation, which teaches faculty innovators to identify and leverage commercialization opportunities for technologies developed from academic research, and offers entrepreneurship training to student participants. The Summer Cohort is a new idea fro...

The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting Wednesday, June 26, at 3:30 p.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of the University Library.  The two purposes of the special meeting are to ratify a four-year, collective bargaining agreement between the university and full-time, tenure-track faculty who are represented by the Kent State Chapter of the American Association of University Professors; and to consider 2019-20 tuition and fees. No committee meetings will be held, and no other items are on th...

Kent State University Vice President for System Integration Nathan Ritchey recently announced the appointment of Daniel E. Palmer, Ph.D., as interim dean and chief administrative officer of Kent State at Trumbull, effective July 1. He will provide overall leadership to the regional campus, located outside of Warren, Ohio. Palmer joined Kent State at Trumbull in 2001 and has served as assistant dean there since 2010. He is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences. Palmer has a strong record of service as the chair of the Region...

Supplier diversity program manager Veronica Cook Euell received the Neil D. Markee Communicator of the Year Award from the National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP). Presented at a ceremony held during the association’s 2019 Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, the award recognizes a member for outstanding performance in representing the purchasing profession through the written or spoken word by teaching, speaking or publishing. Ms. Euell has become known at Kent State and throughout the region as an individual who is passionate, dedicated and committed to the engageme...