Kent State University freshman Josh Paulin is not only a good student, but also an exemplary citizen. Recently, Paulin saved a man’s life, which motivated Kent State’s Department of Public Safety to honor him for his heroic acts. It all started while he was waiting at a bus stop near the Kent Student Center Kiva. Paulin saw a man walk behind him, and then heard a loud thump. The man had collapsed. “So I turned around and saw that he was on the ground unconscious,” Paulin recalls. Using his training as an Eagle Scout, Paulin kept the man’s airways open until ...
Mark D. Albaugh, of Uhrichsville, has been hired as the coach for cross country and track and field at Kent State University at Tuscarawas. He has 28 years of coaching experience at Claymont, Dover and Garaway schools. He received the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) Fred Dafler Career Coach of the Year award in 2006 for girls cross country and in 2009 for boys cross country. In 2013, he was named to the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame. In addition to his coaching career, Albaugh is employed by Claymont Schools as a junior high school scien...
Four Kent State University graduate students in the Department of Psychological Sciences, in the College of Arts and Sciences, won the Sloboda and Bukoski Cup at the Society for Prevention Research’s annual conference. Liz Baker, Karly Cochran, Haylee DeLuca and Logan Stigall represented Kent State against five other teams from Arizona State University, Clemson University, Florida International University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of California, Irvine. For the competition, the team was given a specific data set and then had eight weeks to familiarize the...
Registrations are being accepted for the 2016 the Kent State Tuscarawas Alumni Association Glowway Run 5K, presented by Geib Funeral Home and Crematories. Open to the public, the 5K run and 1.5 mile Fun Run/Walk will be held Sept. 17 at Harry Clever Field in New Philadelphia. Registration begins at 6:15 p.m. and the race at 7:15 p.m. “We are excited to have the race at Harry Clever field,” said Chad Conrad, director of advancement at Kent State Tuscarawas and a member of the alumni association. “It’s a unique location to host the race. I encourage everyone to get their glow...
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Robert D. Hisrich, Ph.D., associate dean for graduate and international programs and Bridgestone Chair in International Marketing in Kent State University’s College of Business Administration, has been named to the Startup Officers Leadership Council. The Startup Officers Leadership Council is a new, invitation-only group launched by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2). Hisrich and other council members will be tasked with finding improvements to the university-corporate-startup ecosystem, providing congressional staffers ideas for legislation to fill the “fu...
Robert D. Hisrich, Ph.D., associate dean for graduate and international programs and Bridgestone Chair in International Marketing in Kent State University’s College of Business Administration, has been named to the Startup Officers Leadership Council. The Startup Officers Leadership Council is a new, invitation-only group launched by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2). Hisrich and other council members will be tasked with finding improvements to the university-corporate-startup ecosystem, providing congressional staffers ideas for legislation to fill the “fu...
Robert D. Hisrich, Ph.D., associate dean for graduate and international programs and Bridgestone Chair in International Marketing in Kent State University’s College of Business Administration, has been named to the Startup Officers Leadership Council. The Startup Officers Leadership Council is a new, invitation-only group launched by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2). Hisrich and other council members will be tasked with finding improvements to the university-corporate-startup ecosystem, providing congressional staffers ideas for legislation to fill the “fu...
Kent State University employees shared some of their favorite summer vacation and staycation photos with e-Inside. Read the next issue of e-Inside to see more photos. Anne Brown, associate vice president for business and administrative services, shared this photo of a late night view of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square, Moscow. Jeff Glidden, photographer with University Communications and Marketing, shared this photo of “The Triumph of History Over Time” by Anton Raphael Mengs, a ceiling fresco in the Camera dei Papi...
The Glenn H. Brown Liquid Crystal Institute® in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University will host the 26th International Liquid Crystal Conference on the Kent Campus from July 31-Aug. 5. The event is open to the public, but paid registration is required. Organized by the International Liquid Crystal Society, more than 700 scientists, engineers and students from around the world are expected to attend the conference, which features cutting-edge research and technology presentations on liquid crystals, plus a variety of social activities, including a dinner at the Rock and Rol...