Meet Maia Amato: the newest member of the Wellsville Village Council. She also is a senior at Kent State University, preparing to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. She earned an associate degree in business from Kent State in December 2020, taking classes on the East Liverpool and Salem campuses. Following the recent death of Wellsville Mayor Nancy Murray, a shuffling of council positions occurred, creating a vacancy. Amato expressed interest in the position and was unanimously selected by council members to fill the seat formerly held by Randy Allmon, who assumed...
College of the Arts
School of Fashion faculty member Marji Wachowiak appeared on the Ray Horner Morning Show on Akron's WAKR Radio to discuss back-to-school fashion trends and the School of Fashion at Kent State. To listen to the interview, click the link below. Listen to Interview with Marji Wachowiak About Marji Wachowiak Marji Wachowiak earned her B.S. in Fashion Design from the University of Cincinnati and her M.S. in Marketing and Communications from Franklin University. After 25+ years of extensive fashion industry experience, Marji joined the Kent State University faculty in 2011. She has worked...
Thirteen Kent State Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI) Undergraduate Fellows from seven different majors recently completed summer neuroscience research experiences with capstone presentations. Based on their outstanding scholarship and interest in working with BHRI faculty mentors, these students were selected at the beginning of the summer to be BHRI Undergraduate Fellows. All were also participants in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program at Kent State University. The BHRI Undergraduate Fellows met together virtually each week for one-hour seminars aim...
Each spring, graduating students in the Physical Therapist Assistant program at Kent State East Liverpool cast votes to honor a clinical site instructor who impacted them during their learning experiences. The COVID pandemic delayed the presentation of the awards the past two springs, but the 2020 and 2021 honorees recently received their respective recognition for their work with the PTA students. Jenifer Kiernan-Story, PT, was selected as the 2020 Clinical Instructor of the Year and Debra Arcuragi, PTA, was named the 2021 Clinical Instructor of the Year. Kiernan-Story is a physical ...
School of Music
Dear Friends, Words cannot express our gratitude for the time and support you invested in this 53rd season of Kent Blossom Music Festival. This season we were able to: Virtually host 19 young artists from around the nation and the world. Offer these young artists virtual lessons and masterclasses from The Cleveland Orchestra faculty and Kent State University faculty. Host 2 masterclasses with Kulas Visiting Artists violinist Paul Huang, and flutist Demarre McGill. Host 1 masterclass with Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare thanks to our partnership with The Cleveland Orchestra. Offer ti...
As the excitement and enthusiasm of the fall semester inches closer, Kent State's dining, catering, and residence services teams prepare to serve students as a newly unified department - University Housing and Culinary Services (UHCS). Shortly after transitioning from Aramark to in-house dining on July 1, efforts began to operationalize the unification of the areas, driving home the commitment to being a student-ready college whose decision-making, programming, and focus support a seamless housing and dining experience for students. The creation of U...