Dear Kent State University Faculty, As you know, the Kent State units of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-KSU) and the university have signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) through which faculty will take part in the university’s recent COVID-19 vaccine requirement. We express our sincere gratitude for your solidarity in keeping our community safe and healthy as we continue to fight the COVID-19 virus. The MOUs apply to all tenured and tenure-track and full-time non-tenure track faculty regardless of teaching methodology.  Vaccine or Exemption and Testing...

Iris Lee, data journalist for the Los Angeles Times, joined the Emerging Media and Technology class “Data in Emerging Media and Technology” virtually to talk about her job and recent projects. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lee has played a vital role in helping her team create digital dashboards that show positive cases, vaccination rates, school closings and other important information happening throughout Los Angeles and surrounding areas. She has also helped create virtual maps that can show where wildfires are occurring throu...

It may come as no surprise that the entertainment industry has been devastated by the pandemic. Tours large and small PLUS the thousands of individuals who work behind the scenes (stage crew, truck drivers, caterers, equipment rental companies, etc.) have been sidelined. Now that things are reopening, the industry has gone to great lengths to ensure the shows continue and part of that is increased COVID safety protocols. The PAC recently hosted the national Broadway tour of Waitress. As part of their protocols, we were required to administer a COVID test to the entire crew who is working backs...

Hao Wang, PhD., 2020 graduate of Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program (currently the Materials Science Graduate Program) and now a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute has received a prestigious PR China government award as an “Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad.” Annually the government chooses recipients in any discipline based on a record of outstanding accomplishments during their PhD studies. This award is the highest award the government gives to graduate students studying outside of China. Recipients include ...

Hao Wang, PhD., 2020 graduate of Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program (currently the Materials Science Graduate Program) and now a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute has received a prestigious PR China government award as an “Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad.” Annually the government chooses recipients in any discipline based on a record of outstanding accomplishments during their PhD studies. This award is the highest award the government gives to graduate students studying outside of China. Recipients include ...

Edwin Duckworth, a physics doctoral student in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, is among 65 students from 29 states recently selected for funding by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. The program aspires to “address societal challenges at national and international scale.” With interests in experimental high-energy particles, he will work in the Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics program at Brookhaven National Laboratory from January through December 2022. “I am very excited with this opportunity; Brookhaven has...

Kent State University will host the kickoff event for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read Northeast Ohio, a community reading program celebrating “An American Sunrise” by Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, the first Native American poet laureate of the United States. The kickoff event will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 12, beginning promptly at 7 p.m. in the Kiva, located in the Student Center, 800 E. Summit Street, Kent, Ohio. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is appreciated. A live stream of this event will be offered to virtual viewers who will receive a link upo...