Kenneth Burhanna, Kent State University’s 2015-2016 Provost’s Fellow and assistant dean of engagement and outreach for University Libraries, is one of the 17 top managers of academic research libraries selected for UCLA’s 2016 Senior Fellows Program. This year marks the 18th year the UCLA Senior Fellows Program has been held. The program is directed by Beverly P. Lynch, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. Lynch was a fellow in the first class in 1982. Since 1982, 250 academic library leaders have participated in the program. Burhanna, who is originally from Gen...

For All You Do - This Week's For You!   Stark Campus Employee Appreciation Breakfast Thursday, April 7, 2016 7 - 9 a.m. Conference Center Stark faculty and staff should RSVP by emailing Kelly Simonis at ksimonis@kent.edu. Kent Campus In special recognition of all the things you do that inspire and drive student success, the Office of the Provost and the entire Kent State community would like to celebrate you with an entire week of faculty appreciation events on the Kent Campus. View the week's schedule and RSVP for Kent Campus events.   ...

Kent State University Day at the Cleveland Film Festival is slated for April 6 at Tower City Cinemas in downtown Cleveland. Members of the Kent State community will receive a $2 discount on tickets to any film showing any day of the festival. Kent State alumni, students, faculty and staff should use the code KSU to obtain the special discount. To see the films playing on Kent State Day at the Cleveland Film Festival, visit www.clevelandfilm.org/schedule and select Wednesday, April 6. Kent State’s own Michael Loderstedt, professor of art, is the selected artist who designed this year’s Cleve...

Kent State University has earned its eighth consecutive recognition from Tree Campus USA, a national program created in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and for engaging staff and students in conservation goals. Heather White, grounds manager at University Facilities Management at Kent State, says the grounds department is proud of the continued recognition, as it shows the university’s dedication to the community’s green infrastructure. “We recognize that we are one of the first impressions of campus for prospective p...

Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences is the intellectual heart of Kent State University. Its 16 academic departments encompass the humanities, social sciences, natural and mathematical sciences.     ...

Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, and Julaine Clunis, student  in the School of Library and Information Science, (with Vladimir Alexiev) presented “Innovative Use of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) that are Published as Linked Open Data (LOD)” at the first Asian Networked Knowledge Systems Workshop. The workshop took place during the 2015 Asian Digital Library conference in December 2015 in Seoul, South Korea. ...

Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, and Alexander Mawyer, University of Hawaii at Manoa, authored “Response to Nash on Creole Spatiality and Pitcairn Island” in Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Edward Lowe (Ed.), Vol.  44, Issue 1, (2016): 9-10. ...

The second edition of a book co-authored by Marcia Lei Zeng, School of Library and Information Science, and Jian Qin, titled Metadata, has been released by ALA Neal Schuman Publishers. The first edition was published in 2008. It has been called the definitive text on metadata. ...