An interdisciplinary team of Kent State University faculty will participate in a $13.3 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve educational outcomes for Nigerian children. The USAID grant has been awarded to American University of Nigeria with partners Kent State and Columbia University for the three-year project titled “Addressing Education in Northeast Nigeria.” Nigerian educational statistics are among the worst in the world. Because of early marriages, the Almajiri system, poor investments in education and the low quality of teachers, a total o...
Salem – Three nursing faculty members from the Kent State Salem Campus recently were recognized by the university’s Office of Student Accessibility Services. Cheryl Brady, Krista Hawkins and Lorene Martin were each recognized by the Kent State Office of Student Accessibility Services for “going above and beyond” to provide accommodations and assisting students with disabilities in their academic success. The three are faculty members in the Bachelor of Science in nursing degree program on the Salem Campus. This recognition is based on unsolicited student nominations. Phot...
As if graduating with your Ph.D., starting a National Research Council (NRC) postdoctoral fellowship, getting married in Nepal and organizing an international research seminar wasn’t already a full plate for Kent State University doctoral student Greta Babakhanova, how about a little dessert? Ms. Babakhanova, a chemical physics graduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences, who will graduate on May 10, will experience the opportunity of a lifetime: spending five days with 42 of the most accomplished and inspiring scientists in the world at the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureat...
Each year the American Library Association selects student chapters who exemplify values of excellence, service and compliance while performing at a consistently high level, making a difference in the lives of their students. This year, Kent State’s ALA Student Chapter was selected as the runner-up for the award. The Student Chapter at Kent State was reactivated in January of 2018 by recent iSchool graduate, Jacquie Kociubuk. Kociubuk says she was driven to reactivate the Chapter after feeling disconnected from her peers as a first-year online student. “The ALA Student Chapter a...
IOCS - 2019 Meeting Dr. Joseph Ortiz attended the International Ocean Colour Science meeting on April 9-12, 2019 in Busan, South Korea. Over 250 ocean colour research scientists and representatives from national space agencies around the world gathered to improve communication between research scientists and space agency representatives, and to advance ocean colour radiometry research. In addition, Dr. Ortiz has two new publications from coastal and inland water have been added to the IOCCG Ocean Colour Bibliography (see New Publications heading on IOCCG News link). Read more ...
A major campus improvement project will get underway Monday, May 20, 2019, as the B-Wing in Main Hall will undergo a complete renovation. New flooring and wall coverings, lighting, ceilings and sprinkler system will be installed along with a new entryway into the south side of the Blue & Gold Room. During the renovation project, which is slated to last until just before the start of the semester, both first- and second-floor B-Wing corridors will be closed, as will the south and east exterior entrances to Main Hall. Guests visiting Main Hall will be asked to enter from the n...
This June, Kent Trumbull Theatre and Summer Stock present "Journey to Ohio," a play based on the journey of Margaret Van Horn Dwight from Connecticut to The Connecticut Western Reserve of Northeast Ohio. The play teaches the earliest periods of migration to this region as well as helps the audience better understand life in the early 1800s. The play is written and directed by Jim Canacci, associate lecturer, Kent State Trumbull. To purchase tickets to the play, which will be performed June 13-16 and June 20-23, call the Kent Trumbull Theatre Box Office at 330-675-8887 or email trumbul...
Dr. Matthew Lehnert, associate professor of Biological Sciences, and his students at the Kent State Stark Campus are included in “A Butterfly’s Proboscis,” a bonus segment of the full PBS Nature episode called “Sex, Lies and Butterflies.” In the recently released mini episode, Lehnert uses the latest technology to look deep into a butterfly’s proboscis – or its elongated sucking mouthpart – to determine the mechanism for how it feeds. Since 2010, Lehnert has studied how the mouthparts of butterflies and moths work, and he believes the way they ingest liquids could be used as a model to bett...
Bart Bixenstine, a 1971 graduate of Kent State University’s Honors College and the recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Honors Alumni Award, says that the connections he has made at Kent State continue to help him today, as he has run into and worked with people who also attended Kent State over the years. Bixenstine also enjoys the opportunity to periodically teach a course at Kent State on the First Amendment, for which he jokes that he “shamelessly plagiarize[s] the approach taken by” his professor at the University of Chicago Law School. His connections at Kent State have also broug...