Campus Pride has released its 2021 Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities list, and for the second time in two years, Kent State University has landed on it. Kent State is the only Ohio public university to make the 2021 list, and it again is the only school in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) to receive this recognition. Celebrating its 20th year, Campus Pride has continued to support college and university campuses to help improve campus life for LGBTQ students. The 2021 Best of the Best Colleges and Universities list is based on several factor...
The Farris Family Innovation Awards support the research of tenure-track faculty members who are not yet tenured at Kent State and who have shown promising drive for their field of study. In May 2021, Faculty Affairs announced the recipients of this year's Farris Family Innovation Awards: Michelle Bebber, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, and Elda Hegmann, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Materials Science Graduate Program. “Research is part of the core mission of Kent State,” Douglas Delahanty, interim vice president for Research and Sponsored Program...
The Employee Vaccination Drawing Week 1 Winners are: Name Award Tile Chris Dorsten $100 University Registrar Jameka Wilson $100 Dir, One Stop Student Svcs Kristina Racher $100 Payroll Specialist Laine Seliga $100 Faculty Part-Time -Semester Christopher O'Daniel $100 Sr Applications Developer Andrew Watkins $100 Emergency Services Dispatcher Jean Day $100 Custodial Worker Karen Martinez $100 Faculty Part-Time -...
Senior journalism major Morgan McGrath has been awarded the inaugural Michael J. Gallagher II Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship was established in late 2020, in memory of Kent State College of Communication and Information alumnus Michael John Gallagher II, who died suddenly two days after his 24th birthday. The Gallagher family wanted to honor their son, brother and friend and carry on his legacy by helping other students complete their college education. Michael believ...
Emily Nelson has given herself a head start. Unlike many of her peers, she has a laser focus on her future career and the optimal academic path to follow in order to reach it. That explains how this 20-year-old is already a college-level senior at Kent State Geauga, majoring in business, minoring in Japanese, and gaining recognition as a leader in her chosen field. How, exactly, did Emily plot her course along this fast track? First, she has followed the example set by her father, who is a vice president of quality control and regulatory systems for an international cancer diagnostics compa...