Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Psychological Science and Health Kent State University’s Department of Psychological Sciences has an open-rank, tenure-track position beginning in Fall 2019.  We seek candidates who conduct interdisciplinary research on the interactions of biological, psychological, or social factors in health and disease.  Specific area of research focus is open and candidates with expertise in clinical, social, health, and developmental psychology will be considered.  Research focused on health disparities or that targets underserved populations is highly d...

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Behavioral Neuroscience   Kent State University’s Department of Psychological Sciences seeks applicants for an open-rank, tenure-track position in Behavioral Neuroscience beginning in Fall 2019.  Applicants should have expertise in systems/circuit-level neuroscience research that involves a behavioral component. The position is open to any area of behavioral neuroscience, with preference for research programs that complement existing strengths in memory, fear, stress, neuropharmacology, addiction, and behavioral neuroendocrinology. Faculty are e...

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Kent State University President Beverly J. Warren, emeritus artist and educator of Pan-African Studies E. Timothy Moore and head football coach Sean Lewis will serve as the guest speakers at the Fall 2018 Bowman Breakfast. The semi-annual Bowman Breakfast, which began in 1963, brings together leaders from Kent State and the city of Kent in a forum designed to advance community issues and strengthen the town-gown relationship. The topic of the breakfast is “A Reflection on 100 Years of Homecoming.” The breakfast will take place Wednesday, Oct. 3, in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. Doors op...

Kent State Trumbull nurses support the community following a crisis at the Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley. Kent State Trumbull’s Student Nurses Association (SNA) set up collection bins around campus and asked students, staff and faculty to donate new or gently used toys and books for the Rescue Mission. “The Student Nurses Association is focusing on our community this year. We really want to help our community and reach out. We wanted to get as many donations as we could,” Valerie Salyers, a junior nursing major and president of the Student Nurse Association told WYTV. SNA representative...

The Jewish Studies Program welcomes guest speaker, Lior Sternfeld, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Penn State University. Dr. Sternfeld's talk, entitled "Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Century: Between Iranian Nationalism, Communism, and Zionism," will take place on Oct. 25, 2018 at 12:30 pm in the Kent Student Center room 319. This event is free and open to all. A light lunch will be served. ...

University celebrated 100 years of Homecoming on Oct. 6 Ask Wayne Dawson about his time at Kent State University and the WJW Fox 8 anchor will tell you about going to football and basketball games to cheer on the Golden Flashes, attending weekend dances, eating at the Schwebel Room restaurant on the third floor of the Kent Student Center, working at Eastway making pizzas and living at Twin Towers in McDowell Hall.  He will also tell you how he came to Kent State as a kid and came out as a young man, how he grew tremendously and honed his skills to be hired right out of college, a...

See green technologies including renewable energy, green building and clean transportation at the Kent Green Energy Ohio Tour on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 12-4 p.m. at multiple locations at Kent State University and throughout the Kent community. This free, open house-style tour is part of the statewide 16th annual Green Energy Ohio Tour. This free event features four green energy spots on Kent State’s Kent Campus and five off-campus spots in the greater Kent area. These green spots are places that showcase leading clean energy features. Kent State’s Office of Sustainability collab...