The Kent Stater and TV2 are up for several national awards from the College Media Assocation (CMA) for work produced during the 2016-17 academic year. The Kent Stater, Kent State University’s independent student newspaper, is one of four finalists for CMA's Pinnacle Award for Four-Year Daily Newspaper of the Year. With this final four distinction, the Stater, joins the ranks of The Daily Northwestern of Northwestern University, The Daily Texan, of the University of Texas at Austin and The Daily Pennsylvanian of the University of Pennsylvania. Alumnus Jimmy Miller, ...
Kent State University is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Wadsworth-Booth as the director of the Kent State University Press. Wadsworth-Booth, formerly the director of the Duquesne University Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, begins her duties on Sept. 11. Wadsworth-Booth joins Kent State with more than 25 years of experience in scholarly publishing. She began her career at Duquesne University Press as an assistant editor in 1988, eventually rising to the position of editor-in-chief before being named director in 1999. Under her guidance, the press garnered n...
It is time for the 2017 Homecoming Decorating Contest! Kent State University’s Alumni Association would like to invite you and your office to show off your Kent State spirit and pride by decorating your office to this year’s decorating theme of “Fall for Kent.” To register your office, visit www.ksualumni.org/officecontest by Friday, Sept. 22, at 5 p.m. This year, contestants have many opportunities to win, and each winning office will be surprised with coffee and donuts for their entire staff. For more information about Homecoming events, visit www.ksualu...
Kent State University’s College of Communication and Information Global Initiatives Office is launching World Class, a new podcast focused on fostering interesting global conversations within the College of Communication and Information and across the Kent State community. The podcast, hosted by College of Communication and Information seniors Daniel Henderson and Hana Barkowitz, will premiere on Monday, Sept. 11, with a show that examines 9/11 and features as its inaugural guest Charles (Chuck) Banks, a retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) senior executive who was instrumental in the lo...
1, 2, 3, 4 – PC power settings to save you more. 5, 6, 7, 8 – Don’t forget to activate! Did You Know? More than 3,000 businesses and organizations have pledged to activate power management settings on their computers. These users save an estimated 2 billion kilowatt hour each year! Actions You Can Take Make sure the computer power management features are activated, both at work and at home. IT teams: Learn how activating computer power management settings universally at your company can reduce your environmental footprint and utility costs at www.energystar.gov/lowcarbonIT. ...
It’s that nagging question you ask yourself every Thanksgiving after you have piled the food sky-high on your plate and savored every last morsel: “What happened? Were my eyes bigger than my stomach?” For many years, doctors and dieticians have focused on overeating as part of the reason for the obesity epidemic in America. There is sound science behind the predisposition to fill our plates with what we think is a reasonable portion, only to find ourselves overeating anyway. However, a new study by Kent State University researchers aims to help us use the tricks that our eyes play on us to c...
Collaboration is anything but virtual between Kent State University at Stark and Kent State University at Tuscarawas. In fact, the computer design, animation and game design partnership has been a reality for nearly a decade. This fall, Kent State Stark will host students in a newly designed classroom and Virtual Reality Room in Main Hall. “What is it we need to do to accommodate this growing program? That was our first question,” says A. Bathi Kasturiarachi, Ph.D., associate dean for academic affairs at Kent State Stark. “Prior to this point, the program had been based at Kent Stat...
Herb Page, Kent State University’s director of golf and head men’s golf coach, has been selected to serve as one of the head coaches of the International team at the 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup on July 6-8 at Evian Resort Golf Club in France. Page will team with Stanford University head women’s coach Anne Walker as the top college golfers from around the world take on the top college golfers in the United States. The 2018 event expands the Ryder Cup-style team format that previously featured college players from Europe battling the USA. It is also the only major tournament in the world that will...
The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, Sept. 13. The Board is scheduled to convene at 2:45 p.m. in the Timken Active Learning Classroom (Room 190) in the new Integrated Sciences Building. Adjacent to the Student Green and Williams Hall, the Integrated Sciences Building is located at 1175 Lefton Esplanade in Kent, Ohio. Trustees will retire into executive session from 7:30-9 a.m. in Room 251G to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” Board committees will meet as follows: Committee of the Whol...
Electroencephalogram (EEG) caps are helping Kent State University researchers unlock the secrets of the mind. David Fresco, Ph.D., professor and director of Kent State’s Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation Laboratory (PERL) and co-director of the Kent Electrophysiological Neuroscience Laboratory (KENL), returned to the Sera Jey Monastery in Bylakuppe, India, to better understand what goes on in the brains of monks as they hold a debate. The researchers are studying brain activity, specifically what happens when neurons synchronize. “Are they activating the same parts of their brain...