Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet, AAB ‘89, MA ‘94, MFA ‘12, has a long history at Kent State, graduating from the university three times before working for Kent State. In August, she added a new feather to her cap when The Poetry Box published her first complete collection of poetry, “Just the Girls: A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies; A Drift of Honeybees.” Pam never planned on pursuing more education after high school, but after working in a factory for a year after graduating, she decided to enroll as a business major at Kent State at Trumbull, right down the road from where she grew up. After bei...
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Isolde Thyrêt, associate professor of History, received an Honorable Mention for the 2020 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History awarded by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) for her monograph, "Saint-Making in Early Modern Russia: Religious Tradition and Innovation in the Cult of Nil Stolobenskii," Washington, D.C., New Academia Publishing, 2019; 721 pp. ...
Kent State University Alumna Priya Midha, M.S. ‘20, is making a difference in Northeast Ohio, working to track COVID-19 to stop community spread. Midha was recently featured in Akron Life Magazine, which detailed her story. As she was about to graduate from Kent State last spring, the coronavirus hit America. Her desire to make a difference during the pandemic led her to take a job with Lake County General Health District, where she contacts those who have been exposed to the coronavirus to notify them to self-quarantine. “I’m sitting at home seeing some of my fri...
The College of Podiatric Medicine (KSUCPM) is pleased to announce that Bryan D. Caldwell, DPM, MD has accepted the position of Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, effective Jan. 4, 2021. When Vincent J. Hetherington, DPM announced his retirement following 32 years at KSUCPM in September of this year, the daunting task of filling his shoes began. The next in line for the position would need to embody the “students first” philosophy to implement academic programs to serve student needs and ensure their success during their four years at KSUCPM and beyond to excel in residencies. Follo...