Kent State Trumbull and Rock4Reason Host Benefit for Local Fourth Grader On Friday, Feb. 10, Kent State University at Trumbull, its Jurisprudence Organization (composed of students with a collective interest in criminal justice), and Rock4Reason are hosting a benefit silent raffle auction and pasta dinner for Celeste Rodgers and her son Jaden. Rodgers, a Kent State Trumbull student and active member of the Jurisprudence Organization, was recently told that her ten-year-old son, Jaden, has terminal Glioblastoma Multiforme, an aggressive type of brain cancer. Jaden is a fourth grade studen...
On Wednesday, Feb. 8, Kent State University at Trumbull will host a "On the Matter of Lives," a community discussion about the issues associated with both Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter campaigns. A panel discussion, which begins at 7 p.m., includes: Captain Daniel Zampelli (Akron City Police Department), Professor Stanley Smith (Retired Police Officer and Visiting Lecturer, Department of Disaster Science & Emergency Services at the University of Akron) and Dr. Molly Merryman (Film Documentarist and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at Kent State Uni...
Dear Members of the Kent State University Community: Late Friday, President Trump issued an executive order titled "Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States" that restricts individuals from seven countries from entering the United States. The order, which suspends visas for nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, has the potential to have a powerfully negative impact on our global community and our climate of inclusion and care. I am deeply troubled by this situation and offer the following information and guidance to assist our comm...
The Kent State School of Journalism and Mass Communication hosted a panel discussion Jan. 26, 2017, to reflect up on coverage of Election 2016 and to discuss the changing and unprecedented relationship between the media and the White House. Watch the event in full below. [View the story "Journalism's Way Forward" on Storify] ...
Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, and Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, led a roundtable discussion on “Search expertise in student library workers: Making complex information systems more useable” at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference in Wilmington, Ohio, on Oct. 28, 2016. ...
Ben Woods, School of Library and Information Science, delivered a keynote address on “Designing the Future of Libraries with UX” at a preconference workshop of the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference in Wilmington, Ohio, on Oct. 27, 2016. ...
Kent State University’s Division of Human Resources will partner with the Office of Sustainability to host Shred-Mania on Wednesday, March 22, from 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Ice Arena parking lot, as part of the RecycleMania competition. Shred-Mania is open to all students, faculty, staff and the Kent community. The event allows participants to recycle unwanted paper documents using a secured, onsite document destruction service. Bring documents, drawings, photos, blueprints, coupons, tickets, checks, magazines, spiral notebooks, hanging folders, paper bags and brochures. It is not...
Kent State University continues to offer the Weight Watchers at Work program to all full- and part-time employees, their dependents and university students. Attend the Weight Watchers at Work Open House on Wednesday, Feb. 8, from 12-1 p.m. in the Kent Student Center, Room 310C. Find out more about the program and how to get started by visiting www.kent.edu/hr/benefits/weight-watchers-work. ...
Familiar Face Lindsay Baran Assistant Professor Department of Finance Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I teach corporate finance to both undergraduate and graduate students. My research focus is in the area of corporate governance including boards of directors, networks and dual-class firms. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 2011 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: University of North Carolina at Charlotte as a visiting assistant professor LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The ability to return and impact students in the area where I was ra...
NeW Face Christopher Copeland Chemical Laboratory Coordinator Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Organize and supervise chemical stockrooms and facilities, ensuring that operations support chemistry teaching labs (approximately 70 lab sections per week) WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: July 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Graduate Assistant at Youngstown State University LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: A very friendly environment ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Bigger college campus,...