Guided Tours of May 4 Site to Be Offered During Taylor Hall Renovations Guided tours of Kent State University’s historic May 4 grounds will be offered daily beginning Nov. 1 as the university begins renovations to Taylor Hall, which houses the May 4 Visitors Center. “We believe the tours will still offer significant insight and experience to the May 4 story during a time that the center and its galleries are not accessible,” said Mindy Farmer, director of Kent State’s May 4 Visitors Center.  Tour guides will be available Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at nearby Stopher Hall. ...

Horticulture students recently helped Associate Professor Chris Carlson take the first step toward creating a series of themed gardens on the grounds of the Kent State Salem Campus by designing a butterfly garden. The students conducted soil testing and site assessments prior to designing and planting the new garden, using specially selected plants that will flower and attract butterflies. All of the butterfly plants were donated by Bill Hendricks and Klyn Nurseries, an educationally-supportive wholesale grower located in Perry, Ohio. “This project is just the beginning of a much larger pla...

Kent State University’s Shanice Cheatham is one step closer to helping health care workers stop the spread of disease in underdeveloped countries. Cheatham took first place and won $4500 in the PITCH U elevator competition at the University of Akron, with the generous support of the Burton D. Morgan Foundation. Cheatham is the founder of Endemic Solutions, LLC. The company is in the development phases for its Endemic Filtration Portable Handwashing System. Healthcare professionals treating patients in countries with undeveloped water sources can carry around, and use the backpack-style filtra...

The School of Communication Studies at Kent State University invites you to celebrate the life of associate professor Dr. Rozell Duncan. Dr. Duncan passed away prior to the start of the fall semester; her impact within the school and the university community was unparalleled. When: Friday, Oct. 28 from 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.; remarks at 5:30 p.m. Where: Kent Student Center Ballroom Balcony What: Celebrate Dr. Duncan’s life with the university community. Hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served. Remarks about Dr. Duncan’s life will begin at 5:30 p.m. from an array of speakers. No RSVP requ...

Jennifer O’Connell and Stephanie Orwick, both from the Office of Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services, along with Alicia Robinson, Women’s Center, gave a presentation at the ATIXA/SCOPE Joint National Conference on Oct. 6, 2016, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their presentation was titled “The Strategic Prevention Framework Model in Creating a Coordinated Community Response Team for Sexual Violence.” Over the past six years, Kent State University has grown its sexual assault response team (SART) into a coordinated community response, creating a university culture change. The SA...

Alicia Robinson, Women’s Center, facilitated a workshop called “Lighting a Legacy: Gaining the Tools to Light the Flame in the Next Generation of Young Girls” at the Black Women and Girls Symposium: Producers of Knowledge and Agents of Change on Sept. 9, 2016, in Providence, Rhode Island. The workshop taught participants how to use their passions to drive change. Participants were lead through mini-sessions that taught them the key components of being a change agent, setting effective goals and ensuring their vision is accomplished.    ...

Familiar Face Pervaiz Alam Professor Department of Accounting Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I teach in the areas of auditing, financial accounting and managerial accounting, both at the undergraduate and graduate (master’s and Ph.D. courses) levels. My recent research interest has been in credit default swaps and in accounting accruals quality areas. Some of my recent papers have been published in the Review of Accounting Studies, the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. I also serve as the Ph.D. program coordinator for the...

Jeremiah Vaughan, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Exercise Physiology program at Kent State University, always had an interest in environmental physiology, and this summer, he spearheaded a project that will help to add to understanding respiratory protective equipment resistance on workers’ physical, cognitive and subjective performance in low-oxygen environments, such as Denver and Boulder, Colorado. The goal of this project is to measure variables, such as mood, cognition, breathing effort and comfort, lactic acid, hemoglobin levels, blood pressure, oxygen levels and pulse, while part...

Following a national search, Kent State University has selected Karen B. Clarke as its senior vice president for strategic communications and external affairs. Clarke comes to Kent State from Temple University in Philadelphia, where she has served as vice president for strategic marketing and communications. Last year, the American Marketing Association named Clarke its “National Higher Education Visionary Leader in Marketing.” She joins Kent State on Jan. 3, 2017. Clarke will report directly to Kent State President Beverly Warren and will serve on the President’s Cabinet as a member of the u...