Grace Irvin-Dillard of Bedford, Ohio, who graduated from Kent State University in May 2021 with a degree in entrepreneurship, has already built a successful business from the ground up while still a student. During her time in the College of Business Administration at Kent State, Irvin-Dillard created Touched By Grace (TBG) Body Care, which she continues to grow after graduation. Irvin-Dillard and her business were recently featured by Spectrum News. Watch the story. TBG Body Care offers all-natural, clean beauty and skincare products with an emphasis on sustainability. “When you get ...
The Business Leadership Training (BLT) is a partnership between Kent State Twinsburg Academic Center and the Twinsburg and Nordonia Hills Chambers of Commerce. The BLT bi-monthly programming is free and open to the public. The fourth program of 2021 is titled “Selling for Connectedness - The New Sales Reality for High Performance” and is scheduled via Zoom on Thursday, July 22, from noon – 1 PM. Andy (Drew) Carlton, an experienced sales expert with 25 years in the field, will cover the mindset shifts and power skills you’ll need to transform from old sales thinking to the new realities of s...
It's uncanny but true! For the second consecutive year, five English students of Bonnie Shaker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English from Kent State University at Geauga, were standout writing award winners. Three of Dr. Shaker's students swept the Virginia Perryman Awards in the regional campus Freshman Writing category, while two others were among the top three winners of the College Writing I & II Essay Contest. Perryman Award winners were Lucia Lubanovich (first place), Erin Piczer (second place), and Jillian Stewart (third place). Among College Writing awards, Gregory...
Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2021 By Candace Goforth DeSantis, BS ’94, and Jim Maxwell, BS ’00, MS ’11 By now, it is well understood that the role of women in science has gone largely uncredited throughout history. In recent years, a movement has grown to correct the record and bring attention to the overlooked contributions of women scientists. One of those women is Eunice Newton Foote, whose discovery 165 years ago paved the way for our modern understanding of Earth’s natural greenhouse effect, which is fundamental to the study of climate change. Photo by Bob Christy, BS ‘95" typeof="...
Kent State's history of support for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Plus (LGBTQ+) community is well documented. Earlier this year, Kent State's LGBTQ+ Center celebrated its 10-year anniversary while PRIDE!Kent (founded as the Kent Gay Liberation Front (KGLF) in 1971) observed five decades at Kent State, making it the longest continuously operating LGBTQ student organization in the country. Ken Ditlevson has been the director of Kent State’s LGBTQ+ Center since 2014. For Pride Month, Kent State Today asked him a few questions about this landmark year....
KENT, Ohio – Deborah F. Spake, Ph.D., Dean of the Kent State College of Administration, has been named a 2021 recipient of the American Marketing Association (AMA), Marketing for Higher Education Special Interest Group (Higher Ed SIG) Lifetime Achievement Award. The Higher Ed SIG Lifetime Achievement Award honors a marketing scholar who has demonstrated distinct accomplishments and dedication to the area of higher education in the marketing discipline. Spake is Dean of the College of Business Administration and Professor of Marketing at Kent State University. She serves on the Initial ...
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Porthouse Theatre is thrilled to announce a special Buy One, Get One Free offer for tickets for Kent State faculty and staff for the remaining performances of "Quilters," running through Saturday, July 3. Kent State employees may reserve these specially discounted tickets online at the link below or by calling the Porthouse Box Office at 330-672-3884. In order to secure the offer, please provide the code QUILTERS. If you are ordering tickets online, please make sure you login on the ticketing website with your Flashline credentials in order for the code to work. Reserve Ticket...
Born five decades ago as the Kent Gay Liberation Front at Kent State University, PRIDE! Kent is the country’s oldest continuously operating LGBTQ student organizations. This campus organization owes its existence in large part to the boldness and courage of one person, Dolores Noll, Ph.D. Noll came to Kent State in 1961 as an instructor in the Department of English and became an assistant professor upon completion of her doctorate. In a time when the atmosphere in the country, and on campus, was not easily accepting of gay students and faculty, Noll came out as one of Kent Stat...
During Pride Month in June, people around the country recognize activists and members of the LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Plus) community. As we all strive to learn about the wide array of sexual orientations and gender identities, the School of Art would like to spotlight some students in our own community who identify as LGBTQ+. Transgender people, or people whose gender identity or psychological self does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth, face complex issues in day-to-day life. For some trans artists, these issues or ideas of gender identity...