Kent State University celebrated its 112th birthday on May 19 by launching its first-ever Day of Giving and raising $65,000 from more than 350 alumni, friends and partners in 24 hours to support a variety of scholarships. The blue and gold community came together as part of the university’s Forever Brighter comprehensive campaign. The giving day featured more than 25 scholarship funds and an opportunity to match individual gifts up to $500 until the $15,000 in matching funds were exhausted. The gifts made on the Day of Giving will help students on all Kent State campuses focus on their educ...

Congratulations to Drs. Metin Eren, Department of Anthropology, Angela Neal-Barnett, Department of Psychological Sciences, and Mietek Jaroniec, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, who are 2022 recipients of the President’s Faculty Excellence Award. The annual award is granted to faculty who have demonstrated extraordinary achievement in research, service, or teaching which has led to national or international recognition. It is a distinct honor to receive this award. Among this year’s winners: Angela Neal-Barnett, PhD, Department of Psychological Sciences Professor Angela Nea...

SPCS faculty member Molly Merryman was selected to join the inaugural class of Kent State University's Design Innovation (DI) Faculty Fellows program. The fellowship is based in the DI HUB, where Molly will focus on her project “Queering Academic and Scholarly Space: Theoretical, Pedagogical and Applied Work,” while supporting Design Innovation Hub outreach and teaching, as well as building meaningful connections between DI and Peace and Conflict Studies. This project continues to build on Merryman's work as research director for Queer Britain, the United Kingdom's national LGBTQ+ museum. ...

School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kent State University Visiting Researcher/Visiting Practitioner Program: Call for Applications   The Visiting Researcher (VR)/Visiting Practitioner (VP) Program provides funding for an expert in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies to spend up to three months at the School of Peace and Conflict Studies (SPCS), to undertake research. The funding will support the costs of travel to Kent State as well as accommodation and subsistence whilst located at SPCS. During their time at SPCS the VR/VP will be expected to (i) undertake research that wi...

Everyone expects Death Valley in July to be "hot" and Minneapolis in February to be "cold", right? Much research has been done to study the extreme temperature events that take place in these and other regions. But, what about 81 degrees in Anchorage in July or 2 degrees in Dallas in February?Such events are often called "relative" extreme temperature events – relative to the time of the year and how acclimatized the local population is to them. Less studied, though potentially more impactful, relative temperature extremes are a topic that two Kent State University geography pro...

In advance of Monday’s observance of the Juneteenth federal holiday, we asked members of the Kent State University community to reflect on the federal holiday and share their thoughts on what they hope it means for the university. "Growing up in Texas, I can envision what it might have been like more than a century ago when Union army soldiers first arrived in Galveston to inform some of the country's last remaining enslaved Black Americans that the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed. They were free! What a jubilant day that must have been. More than 150 years later, we celebrate Jun...

Lamar R. Hylton, Ph.D., Kent State University’s senior vice president for student affairs, has announced Richantae Johnson, J.D., as the interim director of gender equity and Title IX coordinator, effective July 1.  Johnson currently serves as the compliance investigator and deputy Title IX coordinator in Kent State’s Office of Gender Equity and Title IX. She is responsible for ensuring the university’s compliance with state and federal law relating to Title IX, Title VII, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the Clery Act by conducting investigations, spearheading training and pr...

Learn more and apply to the program Starting in Fall Semester 2022, students entering the medical field may take courses in the newly developed medical assistant certificate program at Kent State University’s Ashtabula Campus. Kent State Geauga will begin offering this program the following calendar year with students having the option to start Spring or Summer Semester 2023. Students must complete the required prerequisite courses prior to beginning the medical assistant certificate program. This new program is a good fit for students seeking an entry-level health care pos...