New Face Michelle Escalambre Senior Secretary, Advancement Operations Institutional Advancement Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Finance and customer relations WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: March 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Stark County Educational Service Center LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The environmentally friendly buildings and the recycle bins throughout campus ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Kent State’s prestigious reputation and global presence RESIDES IN: Canton, Ohio HOMETOWN: San Fr...

Unbroken: Shining a Light on Human Trafficking, Igniting a Fire for Change Friday, Sept. 30 from 6 - 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 from 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Science & Nursing Building Kent State University at Stark Unbroken: Shining a Light on Human Trafficking, Igniting a Fire for Change is a free mini-conference to raise public awareness about the human trafficking epidemic. The general public is invited to attend. Local organizations including PATHS, COMPASS Rape Crisis Center, Collaborative Against Human Trafficking of Summit County, Rahab Ministries Restore Court, and others w...

The New York Times features CAED’s new building by Weiss/Manfredi & Richard L. Bowen and Associates as one of a few from around the world to be featured in the Fall Preview article! We are in extraordinary company. Stay tuned - more press about the building and Kent State’s commitment to design to come. Read the NYT article here ...

The Department of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University invites applications for a tenure track position for the 2017-2018 academic year.  The position is open rank.  We seek an excellent scholar in any of the following fields:  Adult Clinical, Behavioral Neuroscience, or Clinical Health.   Candidates who fit with our focus on enhancing interdisciplinary and translational approaches to the study of mental and physical health are preferred. We welcome applicants who approach these problems from any level of analysis (e.g., from animal models to clinical interv...

Why are plants often sterile when their parents are from different species? How do species remain separate entities in nature? Andrea L. Case, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences, co-authored an article that may provide some answers to these basic questions in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which was recently published online. In their article, "Selfish Evolution of Cytonuclear Hybrid Incompatibility in Mimulus,” Case and her co-authors from the University of Montana (Findley R. Finseth, Camille ...

Kent State University’s Kent Campus is hosting four reproductions of artworks from the Akron Art Museum through the end of October. Inside|Out is a community-activated arts project that brings high-quality art “out of the galleries and into the community.” Roza Maille, '06, Kent State alumna, was working as the Inside|Out program coordinator when she pitched the idea for the installation to come to Kent. “I automatically thought of Kent right away,” Maille says. “I know that Kent is a very art-friendly city and that people here would love and appreciate having this art on their campus and in...

Kent State University’s College of Education, Health and Human Services will honor seven distinguished alumni at the seventh Annual Education, Health and Human Services Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony on Friday, Oct. 21, at 6:30 p.m. in the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center. Tickets are $40 per person and include hors d’oeuvres followed by a formal dinner. The seventh class in the College of Education, Health and Human Services Hall of Fame includes: Centennial Alumni Award: Charles Fensch Charles Fensch graduated from Kent State in 1958 with a degree in education. He also was ...

Kent State Salem's City Center received the 2016 Sunflower Award from the Salem Beautification Committee through the Salem Chamber of Commerce for the third consecutive year. The award is given based on the upkeep of the building, including clean windows, neatly maintained entryways and sidewalks, as well as an aesthetically-pleasing facade. The City Center building is the former Salem High School and has been part of the city’s history for almost 100 years. It not only houses classrooms and a computer lab for Kent State students, but it also accommodates the Salem City Health Department, the...

The fourth annual Water and Land Symposium at Kent State University will be held Oct. 5-6 at the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Kent, Ohio. This year, the symposium is co-sponsored by Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences and the Cleveland Water Alliance. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. The theme of this year’s symposium is “Sustainability and Resilience on the Land-Water Continuum” and will feature keynote speaker Cynthia Barnett on Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. Barnett is an environmental journalist and author of “Mirage,” “Blue ...