New Face Bridget Goggin Accessibility Coordinator Student Accessibility Services Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I work with students who have disabilities to assist them in obtaining reasonable academic accommodations in order to provide equal access to Kent State University classes and programs. This entails conducting open enrollment interviews, interpreting disability documentation, securing peer note-takers, advocacy and service linkage.    WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: January 2017 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Ohio Wesleyan Universit...

Kent State University is competing with nearly 200 colleges and universities during RecycleMania through April 1, to promote recycling and prevent waste from going into landfills. RecycleMania is an eight-week competition during which colleges report the amount of recycling and trash collected each week. They are then ranked based on which schools have the best recycling rate as a percentage of total waste, which schools recycle the most per capita and which schools have the least amount of trash and recycling combined. In the last two years, Kent State was in the top 25 percent of ...

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Undeniably Kent State. That is the feeling the newly renovated Kent State University at Stark Conference Center emanates, with its contemporary, fashionable décor and blue-and-gold tones throughout. “The Conference Center was a beautiful building before, but now it is the best in Stark County and perhaps all of Northeast Ohio,” says Conference Center Director Stephanie Monastra. “This was the first major makeover since the building opened nearly 15 years ago. It was time to update the space to meet the changing needs of our clients.” The purpose of the overhaul was twofold, Monastra says...

As their families watched, Trevor White and Terrance Duncan were sworn in as Kent State University Police Services’ newest officers on Tuesday, Feb. 14, in a ceremony presided over by Chief of Police Dean Tondiglia in the Stockdale Safety Building. White graduated from Kent State with a criminology degree. He gained prior experience in the department as an auxiliary service officer (ASO), a student worker in the police department who helps check campus buildings and fulfills administrative duties. “The chief and assistant chief talked me into applying here,” White says. “I think my generatio...

Complete immersion in Zimbabwean culture, conservation and photography — and lions, of course. These were all part of the experience Kent State University senior photojournalism student Aaron Self found in Zimbabwe during his summer internship supported through the Wallace J. Hagedorn Photojournalism Scholarship. Self spent two months in the African country, documenting research, community projects and lion care to help promote conservation education. “My time was spent all through Zimbabwe in Victoria Falls, Gweru and Antelope Park,” Self says. “Now I have an African portfolio while most of...

Kent State East Liverpool is preparing for its annual Earth Day Environmental Justice Conference to be held April 22. Organizers are now accepting papers, posters and video presentations related to environmental justice issues from all students. The event will run from 8 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. in the Slak Shak, located in Purinton Hall. Each participant submitting an essay, video or poster will be highlighted in the program if registered by April 7. Register for our Earth Day Environmental Justice Conference Those who register on time and present their work during the conference will earn a ...

 Internationally renowned speaker Dr. Mary Higby Schweitzer will present “How Do We Know What We Know About Dinosaurs?” at Kent State University at Tuscarawas on April 6 at 6 p.m. in Founders Hall auditorium. The program, which is appropriate for all ages, is free and open to the public, with no tickets required. Auditorium doors open at 5 p.m. Seating is available on a first come, first served. Dr. Schweitzer is a vertebrate paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who specializes in the recovery of biomolecules recovered from ancient fossils, including dinosaurs. Her cutting-edge re...

The Kent State University men's basketball team has its sights set on a league championship and a NCAA Tournament bid as it competes in the 2017 Mid-American Conference Tournament in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland March 9-11.  Flash Facts: The Kent State men's basketball team has punched its ticket to Cleveland, advancing to the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament after Monday's epic 116-106 win over Central Michigan. The Golden Flashes are set to face Buffalo in the quarterfinals Thursday, capping off a full slate in Cleveland that features: #8 Eastern Mi...