KENT, Ohio – The Kent State College of Business Administration announces Bill Priemer, president and CEO of Hyland, as the next speaker for the Global Management Speaker Series presented by Citizens Bank. Priemer will present, “How we built a thriving technology company in Cleveland” at noon on Monday, January 28 at the City Club in Cleveland. Lunch will be provided. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at http://bit.ly/2019GMC. “Citizens Bank is committed to educating future business leaders and strengthening the economic development of the ...
According to a recent Career Builder survey, 70 percent of employers use social networking sites, such as LinkedIn and Facebook, to screen and assess candidates during the hiring process. Hiring managers infer applicants’ characteristics based on their social media profiles and make hiring decisions based on these inferences. However, there is little academic research that could be used to justify such inferences. Research conducted by Julia Levashina, Ph.D., associate professor of management at Kent State University, along with her colleague Nicolas Roulin, associate profess...
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Nicholas and Leah A Serendipitous Meeting in the Honors College Our Story It was a serendipitous meeting; I came to Kent State from Cleveland for the architecture program, and Leah came to Kent State from Detroit for fashion design. Neither of us ended up in those respective programs, but came together in the Honors College. My junior year, a good friend of mine was dating an R.A. in the Honors College and introduced me to a freshman on her floor. The rest, as they say, is history! The Proposal and Marriage With our families being from different cities, we met in the middle and marrie...
The work of 153 ecological researchers from 40 countries, including Kent State University Assistant Professor Dave Costello, Ph.D., from the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, has revealed new findings on the effect of climatic factors on river-based ecosystems. The findings are published in the latest issue of the journal Science Advances. “This is the largest such study, with respect to spatial coverage, and allows us to study carbon cycling in streams at unprecedented global scales,” said Dr. Costello, who serves as second author on this pape...
Angel Cuevas is getting his college career back on track after an unfortunate event derailed it early in his college career. The 21-year-old freshman who is majoring in aeronautical engineering suffered a rugby injury during his first semester in the fall of 2017, at which time he abruptly stopped his studies to recuperate. As a way to jump-start his college career, Mr. Cuevas enrolled in Summer Advantage during the summer of 2018. The program is an educational journey based on career exploration, success coaching and academic coursework. Summer Advantage is designed to assist under...
Tracy Stevens, external affairs manager for Dominion Energy and Kent State University at Tuscarawas adjunct faculty, is the featured speaker for the next installment of the Women’s Success Series on Feb.1. The event is held from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Kent State University at Tuscarawas. Cost to attend is $15 when paid in advance and $20 if paid at the door. The fee includes a continental breakfast. The session also includes networking opportunities and a book discussion. The February 2019 book selection is Bossypants by Tina Fey and is available at any Tuscar...
RENT 20th Anniversary Tour comes to the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University at Tuscarawas on Jan. 24 at 7:30 p.m. In 1996, an original rock musical by a little-known composer opened on Broadway… and forever changed the landscape of American theatre. Two decades later, Jonathan Larson’s RENT continues to speak loudly and defiantly to audiences across generations and all over the world. And now, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-winning masterpiece returns to the stage in a vibrant 20th anniversary touring production. A re-imagining of Puccini's La Bohème, RENT follows...
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Mike and Kathy A Meeting at Tri-Towers Leads to Love Our Story We met working together at the Tri-Towers dormitory desk. My wife was an education major, and I majored in Architecture. The Proposal and Marriage I proposed in a car the night I returned from three months of study abroad in Italy, just before my fifth year of Architecture School. We got married July 10, 1981, and were newly graduated with no jobs. She got a teaching position in Mentor that started in September, and I found an architectural position around the same time. We built a home in Mentor and raised our two daughte...