The School of Media and Journalism at Kent State University is saddened at the unexpected death of our alumnus, adjunct instructor and friend Bobby Makar. Bobby was a graduate of our B.S. and M.A. programs in Digital Media Production (DMP). As MDJ Assistant Professor Scott Hallgren has noted, Bobby “was deeply beloved by DMP students, and was the cheerful glue that helped the program grow to where it is now.” Bobby was an important part of the MDJ community and we are grateful for the years of joy and service he provided all of us. As we mourn Bobby’s loss we are inspired by his passion for ...

Due to Flint, Michigan’s population decrease, loss of tax revenue, and increased demands of city services the city was taken over by the state in 2011, which led to the now infamous water crisis.  A policy of municipal takeover was implemented to help relieve Flint of financial and political hardships. Ashley Nickels, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, extensively researched Flint’s municipal takeover for seven years, earning her three awards for her work. After years of careful obser...

Ensuring our faculty and students are safe during the COVID-19 pandemic is a primary concern in the Associate of Applied Science in Nursing (ADN) Degree Program at the Twinsburg Academic Center (TAC). Recently, Lowe’s in Macedonia immediately responded to Prof. Wendy Hildebrandt regarding the need for a washer and dryer in the Skills Lab.  Lowe’s donated delivery, installation, and items required to install the appliances.  When approached about the donation, the manager, Ralph, did not hesitate: He promptly committed to providing both a washer and dryer to the TAC.  Nursi...

A true milestone in the concept of international education, the American Academy celebrated its first Commencement in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, on Sept. 25. The American Academy is a dual-enrollment program jointly operated by Kent State University and the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR). The program’s curriculum follows a liberal arts education model, which is a new concept in Brazilian higher education. This four-semester program includes the Kent Core as well as additional courses that help students explore different majors. The classes are taught in English by...

During the month of October, our social media channels were filled with important safety reminders as well as some fun content. Here are some of our highest-performing posts for this month: Instagram On Instagram, our top performing post, which had 1,386 likes, featured students following the Flashes Safe Seven principals and staying safe on campus.            View this post on Instagram                       ...

Kent State University at Ashtabula Nursing alumna Camille Zalar, MHA, BSN, RN, CARN is one of eight nursing professionals to be selected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Addictions Nursing (IAA). The IAA aims to foster excellence in addictions nursing and to recognize those who have contributed to addictions nursing in sustained and significant ways through practice, administration, research, and education. “It is such an honor and being selected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Addictions Nursing this year, ‘the Year of the Nurse’, has been remarkable,” Zalar said....

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...

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. ...

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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...