Shana Lee, Kent State University’s Assistant Dean of Students, has been selected to serve as a member of the Association of Higher Education Parent Program Professionals (AHEPPP) Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion (DEAI) Task Force. AHEPPP is the premier national association for higher education professionals who work with parents and family members of college students. Lee, who currently oversees engagement of Kent State’s parents and families, spent 26 years working with the university’s underrepresented students as Director of the Student Multicultural Center and later the Division...

Kent State University alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and the community are encouraged to save the date for one of the university’s long-standing traditions. Kent State will celebrate Homecoming 2021 on Saturday, Oct. 2. In addition to enhanced Homecoming festivities, the university will celebrate the Class of 2020 with a historic in-person commencement ceremony during Homecoming Weekend. Organizers of Homecoming are planning events and activities that can occur safely. Details are still being determined surrounding Homecoming 2021 and will be shared as they develop at www.kent.ed...

The College of Podiatric Medicine (CPM) would like to congratulate Windy Cole, DPM, CWSP, on her recent receipt of a Silver Award for Innovations in Technology Driven Research! Dr. Cole was honored with the award during the recently held Journal of Wound Care World Union of Wound Healing Societies (JWC WUWHS) award ceremony. Regarded as ‘The Olympics of Wound Care’, the JWC WUWHS Awards celebrates the finest achievements in wound care over a four-year span. This year, the celebration returned to deliver some of the most prestigious awards in the wound care community for work done following ...

Kent is surrounded by opportunities for community engagement— just ask School of Art alumna Francisca Ugalde Zapico. She graduated from Kent State University with her B.F.A. in Painting in 2005 and earned her M.A. in Arts Administration from The University of Akron. She currently works as a curator at the Institute for Human Science and Culture at the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology at The University of Akron. Fran was born in Chile and relocated via Colombia and Puerto Rico to Ohio in 1999 and currently lives in Merriman Valley, Akron. Fran has been in...

Aileen LeRoy has always been passionate about language, feeling, “It’s a mystery, a science, and an art all in one.” As a junior Honors College student majoring in Teaching English as a Second Language with an Italian studies minor, much of Aileen’s college education has been focused on language studies. In addition to her major coursework, Aileen is planning to complete a Senior Honors Thesis with a linguistic focus. Currently in her thesis preparation semester, Aileen is completing initial research for her project of making a constructed language. A constructed language is “an arti...

The aroma of fresh espresso from Cafe Havelka and historical streets of downtown Vienna, Austria, have become oddly familiar to Theodore Albrecht, who has spent over 20 summers there retracing the footsteps of the famous Austrian-German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.  Albrecht is a professor of musicology in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music at Kent State University. This dedicated Beethoven scholar has conducted all of Beethoven’s nine symphonies throughout his career and has studied the famous composer for years.  In 1996, Albrecht was diligently working on his original proje...

Sierra Duncan has been passionate about conservation since she first began volunteering at the Akron Zoo when she was fifteen years old. Now, a junior Honors College student with double-majors in psychology and environmental studies, as well as double-minors in anthropology and park management, Sierra’s passion for conservation is central to her Senior Honors Thesis. Sierra is currently in her thesis preparation semester, collecting research with the goal of submitting a formal thesis proposal and research question by the end of the semester. Though in the thesis preparation semester, Sierra a...

Alexandra Euwema is a third-year honors student from Springfield, Virginia, majoring in zoology. From early in her college career, Alexandra has wanted to earn a master’s degree in wildlife conservation, and this goal was a major inspiration for her Senior Honors Thesis topic. Alexandra is in her first semester of her thesis hours, using the research she completed in her preparation semester to conduct her thesis experiment and answer her research question. Focused on predation and scents in wildlife, Alexandra will be testing whether “an animal actually recognizes a predator scent as a threat...

Senior Construction Management major David Green is the recipient of the Kent State University Leadership Center’s Student Leader of the Month. Green currently serves as president for the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Before this role, he served as Vice President of recruitment for two terms.  The Student Leader of the Month program seeks to recognize students for excellence in leadership through campus and community involvement. Matthew Clark nominated him. He said: "The first word that comes to mind with David's leadership style is passion. While serving as VP of recruitment...