Join the Growing Democracy Project for the first event of the new Race and Democracy in Northeast Ohio Series! A program on "Race, Place and Political Boundaries" will be held on Tuesday, September 21, 2022, from 2 - 6 pm in Oscar Ritchie Hall, room 250. The event will also be live-streamed for those who are unable to attend in person.The Race and Democracy in Northeast Ohio Series is a collaboration with the School of Peace and Conflict Studies (SPCS) and the Center for Pan-African Culture (CPAC).The program will explore the relationship between race and place, focusing on the sig...
The Kent State University Board of Trustees recently welcomed four new trustees to serve the university including Haley Crews, a graduate student in the College of Arts & Sciences’ Department of Sociology. She was appointed by Gov. Mike DeWine to a two-year term as the graduate student trustee. Crews is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in sociology at Kent State and her research interests include social psychology, neurosociology, and higher education. She earned her B.S. in Neuroscience and Sociology from the University of Mount Union. To learn more about Haley’s research,...
In partnership with the Embassy of Colombia, the College of the Arts will present a virtual conversation with Colombian fashion designer Laura Laurens on Wed., Sept. 29, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. ET. En colaboración con la Embajada de Colombia en Estados Unidos, la Facultad de Artes presentará un conversatorio virtual con la diseñadora de modas Colombiana Laura Laurens el Miércoles 29 de Septiembre de 2021 a las 11:00 a.m. hora del este. The event, "Impossible Dialogues" Fashion, Diversity, Inclusion, and Sustainability: A Conversation with Colombian Fashion Designer Laura Laurens, is the first in ...
Kent State selected a national leader as the new Dean of the College of Nursing. Dr. Versie Johnson-Mallard is a researcher, academician, clinician, and executive leader in nursing and higher education and most recently served as Associate Dean at the College of Nursing in the Health Science Center at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. The largest public multi-campus system in Northeast Ohio with campuses serving nine local communities, Kent State University and the College of Nursing are primed for growth in academic and research endeavors. “I am grateful and excited to join Kent S...
With the start of the Fall semester, three new full-time faculty members are contributing their knowledge and expertise to College of Nursing research endeavors. Dr. Versie Johnson-Mallard, Ph.D., RN, APRN, FAANP, FAAN, joins the College of Nursing as Dean, Professor, and Henderson Endowed Chair, succeeding retired Dean Barbara Broome and Interim Dean Denice Sheehan. Dr. Loretta Aller, Ph.D., RN, comes to the Kent campus after serving at Kent State University at Stark, and Dr. Stacy Miner, Ph.D., RN, CCRP, joins College of Nursing faculty from University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. Wor...
The National Collegiate Honors Council has announced Kent State University Honors College graduate Sarah Hagglund as a 2021 Portz Scholar. Hagglund is the 10th honors student from Kent State to be named a Portz Scholar since the national competition began in 1990. "Each year, the NCHC awards four Portz Prizes, one to a student in each of the four broad academic areas, in a competition for most excellent undergraduate thesis," Honors College Dean Alison J. Smith, Ph.D., notes. "Sarah receives this year’s Portz Prize in the Humanities, becoming our 10th Portz scholar. We are so proud ...