Graduate students in the College of Communication and Information spent the second half of the Spring 2020 semester applying course material in real time as they examined how classrooms were adapting to new ways of learning during COVID-19. In the seminar course Communication in an Information Society (offered in the School of Communication Studies), the students had been reading and discussing literature on the effects of communication and technology in our world. When educational institutions across the country shifted to remote instruction in mid-March, it became clear that technology wa...
Students in the class Communication in a Global Society worked in teams throughout the Spring 2020 semester to educate audiences about one specific aspect of globalization and ecology: fast fashion. The goal, according to Associate Professor Stephanie Danes Smith, was “to look at whether Kent State students can present information about highly relevant issues like fast fashion and get their fellow students to commit to a single, simple behavioral change.” The students were required to create events around fast fashion and its harmful impacts on both the planet and people. “The w...
School of Theatre and Dance
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Porthouse Theatre has decided to cancel all of its educational programs for the summer of 2020, including the High School Shadow Program, the Porthouse College Academy, and the Porthouse International Academy. Porthouse Theatre looks forward to resuming its education programs in the summer of 2021. For further information, please visit www.porthousetheatre.com. ### Media Contact: Joni Koneval, jkoneval@kent.edu, 330-672-0116 ...
Dr. Joseph D. Ortiz, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Geology at Kent State University, was part of an international team of researchers that co-authored an article about a deadly tsunami that occurred about 1,000 years ago in Tanzania. The study suggests that the tsunami risk in East Africa could be higher than previously thought. Ortiz processed and interpreted the grain size data using a multivariate statistical analysis method, demonstrating the deposit was composed of sediment from both terrestrial and marine origin, which supports the tsunami in...
Scientists report that nearly 14,600 years ago marine-based regions of the Eurasian Ice Sheet melted rapidly, contributing to a major sea-level rise. Does this rapid collapse of massive ice give us clues as to the vulnerability of Earth’s remaining ice sheets? Joseph D. Ortiz, Ph.D., professor and assistant chair in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Geology at Kent State University, recently authored a “News and Views” article in Nature Geoscience that discusses research carried out by another research team that reassessed the melt history and timing of the collapse of the Eur...
By Allie Vugrincic, Reporter Tribune Chronicle avugrincic@tribtoday.com Nonprofit Rock4Reason is thinking of local cancer patients during the pandemic and has decided to support them by donating 50 stress-relief bags to the Hope Center for Cancer Care. “People are already stressed out, and for those folks who are going through treatment, it is probably even more stressful for them,” Rock4Reason co-founder Frank Lindsay said. The Rock4Reason team delivered stress-relief bags with candles, tea, socks, stress balls and lotion, among other items, to the Hope Center in Howland. Half...
The Integrated Design Studio is a forum that synthesizes four years of architectural education into one project. The course tests the student’s ability to bring a variety of issues to bear; placing concepts, technical systems, material construction, and formal ambition into integrated relationships. Design work from the 2020 IDS class is exemplary of the richness possible when architecture is engaged across its broad disciplinary and cultural range. The high-quality design work from this year’s class is a testament to each student’s education and the fortitude of each group. They transformed c...
We would like to congratulate former CPIP student Greta Babkhanova, Director of AMLCI and CPIP Professor Torsten Hegmann, and CPIP Professor Oleg Lavrentovich for being the recipients of the ILCS Honors and Awards 2020. Former student Greta Babakhanova recieved the Glenn H. Brown prize for her outstanding work on nematic elastomer coatings demonstrating the ability to program different surface profiles to the elastomer coating via its nematic director. It highlights general principles underlying this design mechanism by directly relating surface topography to the bend and sp...
The stay-at-home order for Ohio left a lot of parents struggling with how to supplement their children’s schooling and free time with fun, but educational activities. Adjunct Professor at Kent State University Geauga in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design Judson Kline recently went above and beyond when he created the Virtual Kids’ Home Architecture Camp. Kline currently serves on two committees of the American Institute of Architects: the Center for Leadership and the Inspire Architecture Group. During both committee’s conference call meetings in early March, Kline ha...