Always big on professional development opportunities, Vice President for Student Affairs Lamar Hylton had to get creative when executing those plans during a pandemic. Enter the Division of Student Affairs Fellows program. “I have always had a commitment to making sure that division staff takes advantage of as many professional development opportunities as possible,” said Hylton. “With the onset of the pandemic, we knew that funding for more traditional forms of professional development like conferences and institute travel and things like that we were not likely to happen [so] we needed...

Kent State University Animation Game Design (AGD) students and faculty will be participating in IndieCade Horizons, Saturday, June 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, June 13, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. IndeCade Horizons is a new, online, international event that showcases game students and schools, and connects them with tool creators, recruiters, one another and the broader public. A juried festival of games, this event is described as the video game industry’s Sundance Festival. IndieCade Horizons celebrates the work of game students and schools from around the world, highlighting work ...

Julia Perrone, research technician and lab manager of the Bahlai computational ecology lab in the Kent State Department of Biological Sciences, wants teachers and students to get a chance to understand ecology and data science from a hands-on perspective. Perrone, a recent graduate of Kent State’s Master of Library and Information Science program, is combining her passion for insect ecology with science education and outreach by partnering with Data Nuggets, an NSF-funded organization devoted to getting real research into the K-12 curriculum. Perrone developed a “nugget”, a hands-on lesson ...

Dr. D. Louis Christensen served as an educational force at Kent State University’s College of Education and University School in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As he celebrates his 90th birthday this month, the College of EHHS looks back on his incredible professional life. His career started in 1950 — at the beginning of the Korean War. He served as a Naval Intelligence officer in Great Britain during the war, and remained active duty for a decade while earning his Bachelor’s in English from Western Michigan University. He soon took a position as a teacher, and the rest is history...

The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting on Wednesday, June 23, at 11:45 a.m. to consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. All actions of the Board will be taken at this business meeting. Trustees may participate in person or remotely in accordance with Substitute House Bill 404.   On June 23, meetings of the full Board of Trustees are accessible electronically to the university community and the public: Executive Session – Wednesday, June 23, 8:30-10 a.m. Trustees will retir...

Plato once said, “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Although our students, faculty, and staff adapted to remote learning and meetings this past school year, we missed true social interaction on campus. Informal conversations in hallways and parking lots were limited and even during those brief encounters, masks covered friendly smiles. I am cautiously optimistic for our return this fall and to again see students, faculty, and staff on campus, gathered in the halls, sitting outside of the Student Union, and building friendships.  Co...

Dr. Angela Spalsbury, Dean of Kent State University at Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center, announced those students named to the Spring 2021 President's and Dean's lists. To qualify for the President's List, students must have a 4.0-grade point average and have completed 15 hours during the semester. To qualify for the Dean's List, students must earn a 3.40 or more grade point average and have completed 12 or more credit hours for the semester. Congratulations! President's List Laura Dotts, New Philadelphia Keith Francis, Ravenna Kerri Halick, Mentor Nicole Johnson, C...

JOIN IN ON A WEEK OF FUN, JUNE 21 - 25  In honor of people fighting Alzheimer's disease and those who love and care for them, the Alzheimer's Association encourages the public to host events around the longest day of the year, the summer solstice, while raising funds and awareness to advance Alzheimer's care, support and research. For the fourth consecutive year, Recreational Services and Employee Wellness have come together to sponsor The Longest Day at Kent State.    Join us for a week full of activities following the summer solstice on June 20. Visit the Longest Day web...

(But there’s So Much More to this Story) By Estelle R. Brown CHARDON - We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good in the hands of those who use them properly. These timeless words were spoken by Clement of Alexandria, an early philosopher around 190 A.D. The philosopher’s wisdom still rings true today, as illustrated in this story. On the surface, this article celebrates the fact that UH Geauga Medical Center recently donated three modern hospital beds to Kent State U...