Congratulations to our undergraduate award winners for 2017!   Dorcas J. Anderson FACULTY Award Katherine A. Benya; Rank: Senior; BS Zoology Ryan Z. Byler; Rank: Senior; BS Zoology Biological Sciences Pre-Medicine Award Rylee E. Pence; Rank: Senior; BS Biology, Concentration: Pre-Medical Robert W. Woodruff; Rank: Senior; BS Biology, Concentration: Pre-Medical RALPH W. Dexter FACULTY Award Kati N. O’Keefe; Rank: Senior; BS Biology, Concentration: Pre-Medical Hayley E. Robinson; Rank: Senior; BS Molecular/Cellular Biology JUDITH Koonce MEMORIAL Award Sama...

The Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, in the College of Arts and Sciences, has driven innovation and generated national distinction for over three decades through its award-winning Traveling Stanzas project, which brings poetry to people’s everyday lives in communities around the world. At the inaugural March for Science, a global demonstration centered in Washington, D.C., a special edition of Traveling Stanzas titled Science Stanzas will provide an opportunity for participants to discover the intersection of expressive writing and scientific inquiry. SCI...

If you ask Christopher Fenk, science is something that should be accessible to everyone. Through his research on using cellphones as lab equipment, Fenk is striving to provide classrooms with affordable alternatives to equipment that can cost between $1,200 to $2,000 per piece. Fenk, a chemistry professor at Kent State University at Tuscarawas, used his faculty sabbatical to enhance the learning experience of others. Through his research, he discovered a mechanism to conduct spectroscopy experiments with a cellphone, bubble wrap and a cardboard box. Inspired by research conducted by chemist ...

Two teams of Kent State public relations students earned honorable mentions in the Public Relations Student Society of America’s (PRSSA) Bateman Case Study Competition. The two Kent State teams were selected for the honor among sixty teams that entered the competition nationwide. Each year the competition asks students to research, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive public relations campaign for a real client. This year’s client was The Campaign to Change Direction, an organization that seeks to change the conversation about mental health in the United States. This is third tim...

East Liverpool – Kent State University at East Liverpool presents its annual Holocaust Remembrance observance on May 3 with a book-signing and lecture, including a candle-lighting observance, open to the public. Beginning at 10 a.m. that day, Dr. Ronni Sanlo will be in the Barnes & Noble Bookstore, located on the second floor of Purinton Hall, to sign copies of her book The Solider, the Avator and the Holocaust: WWII Germany, Jan.-May, 1945.” Sanlo, who was born in East Liverpool, explained that the book is based on letters her father, Sanford “Sandy” Lebman, wrote to her mother, Loi...

On April 20, Vice President of Jazan University in Saudi Arabia, Professor Sultan Hasan Al-Hazmi met with members of the Kent State faculty and staff to sign two partnership agreements between the two universities. The agreements included a Memorandum of Agreement, which establishes a mutually beneficial educational and pedagogical relationship between Jazan University and Kent State University, and a Visiting Student/Faculty Amendment, which provides study and research opportunities and cooperative projects among students and faculty from both universities. Founded in 2006, Jazan Universit...

The College of Arts and Sciences held its annual awards banquet to recognize and honor its distinguished student leaders, teachers and advisors on April 20. James Blank, Ph.D., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences gave the welcome and closing remarks and presented the awards, along with Matthew Minichillo, assistant dean of Academic and Student Services, to the award recipients.  Donald J. Miller, who received his bachelor’s degree in Technology, master’s degree in computer science and an Executive MBA from Kent State, gave the keynote speech. Joan Iacobacci, a Senior Advisor I in ...

Nine new clever classes are featured in the 2017 College for Kids program to be held June 19-23 at Kent State University at Tuscarawas. A total of 16 youth enrichment classes will be offered during this 27th year of programming designed for students who were in grades kindergarten through sixth during the 2016-17 school year. The five-day session offers courses from 10 a.m. to noon and 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. “We have created new energy in the College for Kids program this year by offering exciting new subjects, partnering with community programs and updating some of our well-known courses,” sai...