Kent State University at Tuscarawas is announcing the signing of a Sheridan High School graduating senior to their wrestling team. On May 11, Lane Householder signed a Letter of Intent to wrestle for the Kent State Tuscarawas Golden Eagles Wrestling Team. Householder was a three-year letter winner for the Generals wrestling team. He was an Ohio High School Athletic Association State Wrestling Tournament qualifier this year, while compiling a 42-11 record and pinning 32 of his opponents during his final season on the mat for Sheridan High School. Householder is a two-time Muskingum Vall...
College of Arts & Sciences
We are happy to announce that associate professor Kara L. Robinson will now serve as the subject librarian for the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and its undergraduate programs in Gender and Sexuality, LGBT Studies, and Women’s Studies. Kara currently serves as the subject librarian for a number of departments whose interests and resources intersect with those of the Center. She is looking forward to working with your students and faculty to identify materials we already own that will support their research interests and to seek out and provide access to addit...
On Wednesday, May 10, a few days before Spring 2017 Commencement ceremonies, approximately 400 graduating international students and their friends and family gathered in the Kent Student Ballroom to celebrate their upcoming achievement during the annual International Graduate Student Reception. During the event, students shared congratulations about their upcoming rite-of-passage, traded selfies, enjoyed the food and refreshments provided and reflected on their long, yet all-too-short academic journey at Kent State University. The graduates in attendance also received a commemorative stole lis...
Kent State University at Tuscarawas is announcing the signing of a Jackson High School graduating senior to their wrestling team. On May 10, Braxton Freeman signed a Letter of Intent to wrestle for the Kent State Tuscarawas Golden Eagles Wrestling Team. Freeman was a three-year letter winner for the Polar Bears wrestling team. He was an Ohio High School Athletic Association State Wrestling Tournament qualifier this year, while compiling a 41-14 record in his final season on the mat for the purple and gold. Freeman was named to the Second Team of the Federal League and All-County wrestling t...
Kent State University at Tuscarawas is announcing the signing of a Hiland High School graduating senior to their cross country and track & field teams. On May 4, Alijah Chupp signed a Letter of Intent to run for the Kent State Tuscarawas Golden Eagles Cross Country and Track & Field Teams. Chupp was a three-year letter winner for both the Hawks track & field and cross country teams. He also received a four-year academic letter award, four-year band award, three-year pep band award, the Scholar Student Athlete award, played in the jazz band and earned a superior rating in th...
College of Communication & Information
An in-depth report on voting rights and regulations by the Carnegie-Knight News21 Initiative, produced by students from Kent State University and 17 other universities, has received a top national award for student investigations. Investigative Reporters & Editors has named the Carnegie-Knight News21 “Voting Wars” project the recipient of the IRE Award for Student Reporting in the large university category. Headquartered at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, News21 is a multimedia reporting initiative established by the Carn...
Kent State University will become a smoke-free, tobacco-free campus beginning July 1. The new policy is part of the university’s healthy campus initiative, Kent State of Wellness. For those desiring to quit, Kent State provides an abundance of cessation resources for students, faculty and staff to help them quit smoking. According to the American Lung Association, the first seven to 10 days are the toughest and most smokers who return to smoking do so within the first three months, so it is a vital time to support their efforts during that time. “As a university, we feel it’s part of ...
Kent State Tuscarawas held the 47th Commencement Ceremony on Fri., May 12 at 7 p.m. with 416 students graduating with an associate or bachelor’s degree. Certificates were awarded to 18 students. The ceremony that is being held in the Performing Arts Center. Dr. John R. Jewell, professor emeritus of English, was the commencement speaker. During the ceremony Community Service Award winner Dr. Dale Covy and Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Jack Dooling were recognized. For more information regarding commencement, visit www.kent.edu/tusc/commencement. ...
College of Communication & Information
Are journalism schools teaching students about the psychological risks of covering traumatic stories? Can victims be harmed if reporters approach them the wrong way? These are a couple of the tough questions Gretchen Dworznik, assistant professor in Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC), asked in her paper, “Are we teaching trauma? A survey of accredited journalism schools in the U.S.” Dworznik recently presented her findings at the Broadcast Education Association conference in Las Vegas. The paper won first place in the open paper competition for the curriculum divi...