My life goals have been to enjoy my work, to excite others with the wonders of paleontology, and to work with students to assure that they are prepared for a great career. Questions & Answers Why did you decide to pursue your field of research? I was drawn to geology in general because it provided the opportunity to combine field and laboratory research in deep time. Paleontology is an amazing field that makes it possible to discover creatures new to science. The full understanding and excitement of discovery expressed by my predecessors convinced me that paleontology provided a...

Golden Flashes, can you believe we’re already more than halfway through this semester? Time has been flying by! We’ve had an exciting month with lots of notable content. Check out our top posts from October! Instagram We kicked off the month by celebrating our Homecoming traditions! Our top-post on Instagram featured some Homecoming highlights to end the weekend of festivities. This post managed to steal a spot on our list of top ten most successful posts!         View this post on Instagram       &nb...

Support the Ashtabula Giving Tuesday Library Project The month of November provides an opportunity for our support of Kent State Ashtabula students to go even further. Giving Tuesday is Kent State’s most generous annual tradition. In 2021, Giving Tuesday will shine even more brilliantly as each of the featured funds support Forever Brighter, Kent State’s recently announced, $350 million comprehensive fundraising campaign, which is the most ambitious campaign in university history. This year, Kent State Ashtabula’s featured fund is the Library Transformation Pr...

According to a recent analysis from Stanford University, six members of the Kent State University Physics Faculty are among the top 2% most cited scientists in the world.  Congratulations to the following faculty (alphabetical order by last name): Dr. Antal Jakli Dr. Oleg Lavrentovich Dr. Jonathan Selinger Dr. Michael Strickland Dr. Deng-Ke Yang Dr. Hiroshi Yokoyama         ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s actually a bird -- and a super one at that!  Kent State’s School of Theatre and Dance, athletics and social media teams joined forces to develop a Halloween costume for our favorite mascot. Once we decided this year’s motif for Flash, we swooped into the Costume Shop, which became the headquarters for the League of Halloween Heroes. Introducing… Super Flash! The costume, which features a custom mask, shirt, belt gauntlets and cape was designed by Victoria Sallot, a senior theatre design technology and production major with a concentration...

James O’Neil is a 2021 Kent State Geauga graduate with a bachelor’s of science degree in nursing (BSN). As a non-traditional student, he was a bit older than many of his classmates, juggling the responsibilities of adult life while going back to school. Despite all of these additional obligations, O’Neil excelled academically. Rather than patting himself on the back, he credits his Kent State Geauga instructors for propelling him to greater heights. Among his accolades, O’Neil was elected to represent the Geauga Campus in a health care policy debate in 2019, he served as a nursing tutor,...

Kent State University’s Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Lamar R. Hylton, Ph.D., has had a pretty good year in one month. Hylton has been named the recipient of the NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) Region IV-East Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Senior Student Affairs Officer for 2021, named to Crain’s Cleveland Business Forty Under 40, selected as a recipient of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Diamond Honoree award and is a member of the 2022 class of the NASPA Pillars of the Profession award. According to NASPA.or...