Stand-up comedians Jon Reep and Etta May join forces to bring plenty of laughs to the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University at Tuscarawas on January 12 at 7:30 p.m. Winner of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” season 5, Jon Reep is known to millions as the redheaded hillbilly in the Dodge Ram commercials who leans out of a beat-up car and utters the now famous line: “That thing gotta Hemi?” Known for his blue-collar comedy, he has been on Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend,” the half-hour special “Comedy Central Presents: Jon Reep” and his own special “Jon Reep: Metro Jethro.” He ...
Kent State University’s School of Information is offering a User Experience Fundamentals workshop to introduce user experience design to working professionals. The noncredit workshop will provide formal training to those who work in the field of user experience design, as well as those hoping to transition into the field or augment their existing careers. The sessions will take place over two days, splitting time between learning from seasoned user experience designers and practicing those concepts with hands-on activities. Kent State faculty and area professional from domest...
A team of Kent State students took first place in the seventh annual Mission: Life international competition on Nov. 12, which took place at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. The winning team, aided by Edgar Eduard Kooijman, Ph.D., (Director, Biotechnology Program and Associate Professor, Biological Sciences) and J.R. Campbell (Executive Director, Design Innovation Initiative and Professor, The Fashion School), traveled to Texas to present their idea that addressed this year’s topic of immigration in the 21st century. Mission: Life is an in...
Hayley Shasteen, a junior psychology/biology major at Kent State University at Salem, took first place honors at Kent State's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) competition. She was one of 60 participants from all Kent State campuses and competed in the psychological sciences division. Ms. Shasteen’s research project, “Cognitive Impairments of Those With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus,” spanned 10 weeks over the past summer. The winners of the SURE program were announced in October. She will present her project at the Undergraduate Research Conference on the Salem Campus in De...
John and Fonda Elliot, donors of the largest gift in Kent State University history, reflect on their transformational experiences at Kent State and offer advice to current students. ...
Kent State University Police Services is celebrating the five-year anniversary – or about 35 dog-year anniversary – of its first K-9 unit, which features 7-year-old German Shepherd Coco and her handler, Officer Anne Spahr. “She is very high spirited, very high energy and very smart,” Officer Spahr says. “She is a phenomenal work dog, very focused and thorough, but quick. I have to stay on my toes to keep up with her.” Coco was the first police dog at Kent State. She is now one of two police dogs at the university, later joined by a Belgian Malinois named Dexter. Dexter's handl...
The inaugural year for the College of Business Administration’s Responsible Leadership Initiative (RLI) was marked by innovation and progress. The initiative was officially launched in Fall 2017 under the leadership of Associate Dean for Graduate and Online programs Cathy L. Z. DuBois, Ph.D. and Assessment and Accreditation Analyst Brandon Shields. The initiative was introduced after the College became an advanced signatory to Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) and an associate member of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI). Both organiza...
Just as the flavor of an artisanal cheese is enhanced by pairing it with the perfect wine, Geauga County offers a bounty of local resources that are amplified when brought together. Such is the case with a new partnership recently established between the International Culinary Arts and Sciences Institute (ICASI) in Chesterland and Kent State University at Geauga. Thanks to this new articulation agreement, credits earned by ICASI culinary students can transfer over to any KSU campus towards an Associate’s Degree in Technical Study. Courses in the Associate of Technical Study degree program c...
Most experiences in an art museum are detected from a distance. Rules are strictly enforced to keep admirers from touching the precious artifacts. But Associate Professor Jeanne Marie Stumpf-Carome, MA, MS, Ph.D., breaks through those barriers. She brings lessons in cultural anthropology, archaeology, sociology and human evolution alive with hands-on learning explorations for her Kent State Geauga students. As such, she demonstrates the timeless relevance of cultural artifacts found in the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) collections. By regularly incorporating t...
A team of College of Public Health international graduate students received a first-place award for their Togetherness application at the 7th-annual Mission: Life competition, hosted at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. The Mission: Life competition is an entrepreneur competition that originated at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica Do Parana (PUCPR) in Curitiba, Brazil. The main goal of the competition is to foster innovative ideas and entrepreneurship that addresses real-world problems. This year's topic was Immigration in the 21st Century. With the support ...