In December, a group of graduate students from the Kent State Fashion School’s Master of Fashion Industry Studies (M.F.I.S) program, received the opportunity to develop strategic solutions for Target as part of a case study in Fashion School Store director, Dr. Jihyun Kim’s, Fashion Industry Merchandise Management class.  Throughout the semester, Dr. Kim’s students engaged in an in-depth literature review and performed a wide range of data collection to better understand customer perception and behavior in the marketplace geared toward the “Back to College” season. Students used i...

  KENT, Ohio – Tina Floyd ’03, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Consumer Foods for The J.M. Smucker Company, is the recipient of the 2019 Spirit of Women in Business Award. Each year, the award is presented to an outstanding female alumna who excels in her profession while paving the way for women in business.   This year’s event will take place on Friday, March 8, 2019, on the Kent State campus.   Floyd earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Kent State University in 2003 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in marketing from Walsh Universit...

Kent State University's College of Public Health has received a $306,000 federal grant to be used for suicide prevention and to address other student mental health needs. The Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention Grant will help to fund the project, More Aware, a collaboration among Student Affairs, University Health Services, Student Support Services, and other divisions across the university. The grant was awarded to the Division of Mental Health and Substance Use (DMHSU) within the College of Public Health’s Center for Public Policy and Health. The three-year grant is from the&n...

Kent State student team selected for competition.   Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) invited applicants for a "Protein Production Line Challenge” competition. Several groups around the world sent proposals for this competition and hoped to be part of the 12 candidates called for the challenge. The selected 12 teams were provided with an antibody expression construct and a cell line (CHO). The selected teams will then have a year to submit a high expression CHO cell line, that will be tested at Merck. Only three teams will be then selected and receive a Gold (EUR 20,000), Silver (EUR ...

The Division of Mental Health and Substance Use (DMHSU), within the Kent State College of Public Health’s Center for Public Policy and Health, recently received the Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention Grant for $306,000 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The project, More Aware, is a collaboration with Student Affairs, University Health Services, Student Support Services and other divisions across Kent State.  The three-year grant, which covers Kent State’s eight-campus system, aims to reduce the adverse consequences of serious mental i...

John Metz is a man on a mission. He wants to shift paradigms, elevate expectations and metaphorically lift all boats by creating a campus-wide culture of good writing. He envisions an academic atmosphere where every instructor in every department expects and supports excellent writing skills so students learn to communicate effectively, succinctly and meaningfully in every aspect of daily life. To achieve that, instructors should expect students to dig deep, embrace complexity and explore invention.  “In today’s world, people don’t just need to be able to convey what they think or know...

Over winter break, the Division of Information Technology, in cooperation with Residence Services, renovated the TechHelp Service and Repair Center (SRC) in the Tri Towers Rotunda. The renovation was inspired by the design and functionality of spaces such as Apple and Microsoft stores, with the primary goal of improving customer service. The removal of a large counter helped maximize space, allowing for the creation of five workspaces for staff members to provide one-on-one assistance to customers. A smaller, more modern desk, including a wheelchair-accessible surface, was installed, making t...

As the government shutdown continues, the ramifications have become more evident. While national parks and government employees have served as examples in the media of who and what the shutdown is harming, science research is also hurting from the delays in funding and resources. Kent State University Associate Professor of Geology Anne Jefferson, Ph.D., wrote in the Nature International Journal of Science’s “World View” column that “tens of thousands of federal scientists must sit idle, and others must work without pay. On the surface, my job as an associate professor of geology at Kent Stat...