We are coming to the end of another year. What has gone well and what would you like to change? Are you trying to "survive" the holiday season or is there joy in the preparation and experience? Perhaps you have experienced loss in the past year or feel a sense of discouragement only more pronounced by the holiday season. Please join our Dec. 8 Lunch and Learn, when we will explore stress, goals, life transition, managing the holidays and preparing for a new year with optimism and expectation! This lunch-and-learn program is sponsored by the Division of Human Resources and its wellness pa...
Anyone who missed the chance to "Know Your Numbers" during the Open Enrollment and Wellness Fairs held on each Kent State University campus has one more opportunity on Dec. 10 from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. Register today while appointments are still available. All full-time, benefits-eligible employees qualify for a free annual health screening. You do not have to be covered by one of the university health plans. In preparation for the health screening, participants must fast for 8-10 hours before their onsite screening. Please note that the blood draw is via a simple finger stick. Confident...
All Kent State University campuses will operate on a holiday schedule from Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, through Friday, Jan. 1, 2016. During this time, all nonessential operations will be closed at all Kent State campuses. Normal business operations will resume with the first shift on Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. Eligible employees will receive four days of paid leave for any regularly scheduled work time from Dec. 26 through Dec. 31. This is in addition to the paid holidays of Dec. 24, 25 and Jan. 1. Hourly employees or their supervisors should record the number of scheduled hours into the university...
Kent State University at Ashtabula welcomes a new food service to campus with the opening of Bridge Street Boulevard. The food counter, operated by local chef and restauranteur Nate Rockwell, serves a variety of lunch favorites including burgers, wraps, pizza, panini grilled sandwiches and specialty salads. The new campus lunch service will operate Monday through Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bridge Street Boulevard opened to the campus community and the public on Nov. 16. “We’re happy to be serving the Kent State Ashtabula campus with Bridge Street Boulevard,” Rockwe...
What has eight paws, wears formal attire and tugs at heartstrings? Kent State University employees in the Administrative Services Building and the Office of Institutional Advancement found the answer when they discovered two stray tuxedo kittens in separate locations and on separate occasions in Kent. From paying veterinary bills to offering temporary homes and securing permanent homes, both offices did all they could to rescue the kittens. Administrative Services Building Employees Save First Tuxedo Kitten On Sept. 17, Jody Kovolyan, project coordinator for University Communications and Ma...
Familiar Face Jenny Marcinkiewicz Associate Professor Department of Biological Sciences Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I teach and advise students, coordinate the B.S./M.D. program, do research and engage in student outreach through the Upward Bound Math-Science program. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: January 1995 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: University of Kansas Medical Center LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I love working in an environment where learning and discovery is valued. There is nothing more gratifying than seeing students’ excitement...
New Face Patrick Dugan Assistant Director for Residential Communities Residence Services Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Supervise a team of seven professional staff that is composed of assistant residence hall directors, residence hall directors and front desk clerical coordinator. Together, we manage the day-to-day operations (room changes, programming, crisis management, etc.) of a fourth of the students living on campus. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: February 2015 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: University of Colorado, Boulder; and University of Califor...
Richard (Rick) Feinberg, professor of anthropology on the Kent Campus, was elected Section Assembly Convener of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). The AAA is the world’s largest organization of anthropologists, with more than 11,000 members, and the Section Assembly is one of the AAA’s two governing bodies. As head of the Section Assembly, Feinberg also will be a member of the AAA’s executive committee. The election is to a four-year term, including one year as convener-elect followed by three years as convener. ...
David Hassler, director of Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center, attended a meeting of poetry organizations from across the U.S. at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from Nov. 5-7. The meeting addressed how the organizations can make poetry more visible, as well as how to garner new supporters for the art form. The meeting was organized by the Academy of American Poets with assistance from the University of Arizona Poetry Center and the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State, and generous support from the Lannan Foundation. ...
Emad Khazraee, School of Library and Information Science, presented "Introduction to Basic Social Media and Social Network Analysis" at the Internet Policy in the MENA Region: Research Methods for Advocates in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sept. 3, 2015. Additional Comments: Khazraee taught this session at the workshop for journalists, researchers and activists. It was hosted by Kadir Has University in Istanbul. The workshop was organized by the Internet Policy Observatory project at the Center for Global Communication Studies at Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. ...