Matthew Minichillo would run to the ends of the earth for his daughter Hannah, who is battling multiple sclerosis. And he almost did. Minichillo completed more than seven marathons in seven days, running from Ft. Wayne, Indiana, passing through Kent, Ohio on his way to Hudson with the goal of showing his support and helping to raise money for a cure. Minichillo, assistant dean for Academic and Student Services in Kent State University’s College of the Arts and Sciences, ran a portion of the MS Run the US Relay that started in California and ended in New York. “As a parent, you want to provid...

Kent State University’s student newspaper, The Kent Stater, is the best collegiate daily (published three times per week or more) in Ohio, according to the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest. Alumna Neville Hardman, ’16, and journalism major Kelly Powell, ’18, also received individual honors – first and second place respectively – for best collegiate feature writing, in the contest sponsored by the Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists. The contest recognizes work published in 2016...

Experience the Kent Campus in 360°. You can click and drag the screen to look around, or you can move your smartphone around (left, right, up and down) or use your smartphone with a VR (virtual reality) headset.     ...

Kent State University Assistant Professor Jennifer Mapes, Ph.D., was honored with the Volunteer of the Year award by Main Street Kent during the organization’s annual awards celebration. Main Street Kent is a nonprofit organization focused on the revitalization of downtown Kent and is an affiliate of the national Main Street program and the Heritage Ohio program. Mapes, a faculty member in Kent State’s Department of Geography and a member of Main Street Kent’s design committee, received the award for creating kiosk and online maps in downtown Kent. “I was really flattered to be reco...

Mary Anne Nichols, M.L.S., School of Information, was appointed to the YALSA Midwinter Paper Presentation Planning Committee (2017-2018).  ...

Haithem Zourrig, Ph.D., Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Kent State University at Stark, and his co-presenters received a Best Paper Award in Global and Cross-cultural Marketing Track at the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators conference, March 8-11, 2017. The paper is titled “The Perceived Deceptiveness of Insurance Fraud: A Cross-cultural Perspective on Information Manipulation Theory.” His co-presenters were Mengxia Zhang, professor of marketing at University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China, and Kamel El Hedhli, assistant professor of marke...

Peter C. Kratcoski Sr., Department of Sociology at Kent State University at Stark, authored “Policing: Continuity and Change,” a section in Global Issues in Contemporary Policing. ...

Virginia Dressler, University Libraries, authored a journal article titled “The State of Affairs With Digital Preservation at ARL Member Libraries: A Survey and Analysis of Policy” in Digital Library Perspectives, Vol. 33 (2), 2017. ...

Familiar Face Janice Lessman-Moss Professor School of Art Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I am the head of the Textile Art program, which recently relocated to a fabulous new facility in the Center for Visual Arts. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: September 1981 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Graduate teaching assistant at the University of Michigan LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The campus, the people – great colleagues and students, and the cultural activities ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: The School of Art has an excel...