Amanda Bekeny recently joined Casidy Reed, the creator and host of the "Music HERstory Podcast," to chat about her equity, life and career, balancing an active teaching and performing career, and more.
The Kent State University College of Business Administration’s Online MBA ranks No. 35 in the nation in Fortune’s Best Online MBA Programs 2021 ranking released this week. Kent State is the highest-ranked public university in northern Ohio on the list. The Best Online MBA Programs of 2021 is the first of six higher education rankings to be published in 2021 by Fortune. Fortune uses multiple data sets to formulate education rankings, including data provided by schools, a “Brand Score” that is calculated from a Fortune-Ipsos survey of hiring managers and business professionals, and a weighted...
AMLCI is proud to announce the recipients of the 2021 AMLCI Fellowship Scholarship Awards. Awardees were selected based on the criteria set forth by our donors. Our winners gave a TED Talk at the Materials Day 2021 on Friday, April 9, 2021, which were based on their research and what impact it has. Glenn H. Brow Fellowship – Runa Koizumi For outstanding graduate students who are engaged in research on biological or biology related topics of liquid crystals. Alfred Saupe Fellowship – Chenrun Feng For outstanding graduate students working on physics or m...
Joshua Albrecht, assistant professor of music theory in the Glauser School, recently appeared on WAMC's "The Academic Minute" as part of a weeklong feature on Kent State University's Brain Heath Research Institute.
School of Peace and Conflict Studies Assistant Professor Johanna Solomon has an edited book coming out soon! And what better way to honor this achievement than by having a virtual book launch event. Join us for the book launch of "Four Dead in Ohio: The Global Legacy of Youth Activism and State Repression," edited by Johanna Solomon. The event is this Tuesday, May 4th at 6pm to 7:30pm EDT. Authors will speak about youth activism and the often repressive attitudes and violence youth and students face when advocating for change. The book and event connect ideas across history a...
One afternoon as I was grocery shopping with my mom when I got a call from an unknown number. Seeing the location was in Kent, I had a feeling I should answer. The voice on the other end was explaining to me how I had been chosen to do this program called Bridges. Everything he was explaining seemed unrealistic, and quite frankly, too good to be true. I found myself agreeing to this program without even consulting my family because I was overwhelmed with so much excitement.
(Left, winner Chloe McCrone, Right, Alan Canfora) Kent State University has awarded the inaugural Alan Canfora Activism Scholarship to social justice activists and incoming Kent State students Kaedynce Kasiewicz, from McKinley High School in Niles, Ohio, and Chloe McCrone, from Memorial High School in Campbell, Ohio. The Alan Canfora Activism Scholarship celebrates Canfora's life, his Kent State experience and the importance of social justice and advocacy to society. On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State demonstrators, killing four students a...
Note: This is the final part of a four-day series discussing the pillars within the Division of Student Affairs and how they benefit the students at Kent State University. Today we are focusing on the Student Affairs Administration pillar, including University Health Services, DSA Finance Office, HR/Personnel, Assessment and Strategic Planning, and Information Technology. When the Division of Student Affairs unveiled their three-year strategic plan earlier this year, it provided a glimpse into the immediate future with a roadmap to how a true world-class experience for the students ...
Kent State student-athletes and alumni have achieved impressive results in their specialized sports such as competing in the Olympics, breaking records and continuously raising the bar for their competitors. The 2020 Summer Olympics are the first games to be postponed in Olympic history, a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The games will be held this summer in Tokyo, Japan, July 23 through Aug. 8. These games mark the second time Tokyo has hosted an Olympics. Though the unexpected events of the pandemic delayed the games, the Summer Olympic Games will host the usual events including ...
