Kent State University President Beverly Warren has challenged the Kent State community to double undergraduate student involvement in research, underscoring how it helps prepare students for success after college while helping Kent State contribute new knowledge to our society. The third annual Undergraduate Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity is an excellent opportunity to showcase and celebrate students’ work. All disciplines are welcome. How Can You Get Involved? Encourage students to submit an abstract of their work. Serve as a faculty mentor to interested studen...

Kent State University faculty, staff and students are invited to join in creating Holiday Peace Baskets on Saturday, Dec. 5, between 9 a.m. and noon at the King Kennedy Community Center, located at 6660 Garfield Road in Ravenna. If you cannot make it at 9 a.m., please join when you can. The Peace basket Project, now in its 19th year, was started in 1997 by the Professional Women of Kent State University, when a group of members created baskets of “little things” to share with the residents served by the King Kennedy Community Center. While the Professional Women of Kent State Univer...

William Auld has a unique skill to pass on to students Backstage of the Weathervane Playhouse in Akron, crews are raising the bar on safety as they prepared for the opening of Peter Pan. Nobody knows the art of safety better than William Auld, Kent State University at Tuscarawas theatre professor. Auld is one of only a few dozen in the world certified in rigging theatres and arenas, and training others. “When I was little, I would say that I wanted to run away and join the circus, and so when I grew up I did,” Auld laughs.     When he is not in the classroom,...

Kent State University student-athletes continue to succeed in the classroom, according to statistics for the Graduation Success Rates (GSR) released on Nov. 4 by the NCAA. Developed by the NCAA as part of its academic reform initiative, the GSR is used to assess the academic success of student-athletes. The GSR measures graduation rates at Division I institutions and includes students transferring into the institutions. The GSR also allows schools to subtract student-athletes who leave their institutions prior to graduation as long as they would have been academically eligible to compete ha...

The Wick Poetry Center, with support from the Howard Atwood Family Fund of the Akron Community Foundation, identified classrooms throughout Akron Public Schools to receive weekly poetry workshops led by WPC teaching artists Alice Cone, Daniel Dorman, and Bo Geisse, and Casey Nichols from February 2, 2015 through May 18, 2015. Teaching Artists were placed in residencies at the following locations: Lawndale Elementary in grades 3, 4, and 5 classes; Jennings Middle School in English Language Learning classes, grades 6, 7, and 8; Garfield High School in two classes, grade 10; Summit County Juvenil...

Peter C. Kratcoski, Sr., Department of Sociology, Kent State University at Stark, Maximilian Edelbacher and John A. Eterno, authored a section of a book, "Justice Agencies - Academic Collaboration in Experiential" in Collaborative Policing: Police, Academics, Professionals, and Communities Working Together for Education, Training, and Program Implementation, 1st ed. (Boca-Raton, Florida: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group) Peter C. Kratcoski, Sr. and Maximilian Edelbacher, Eds. (2016), 137-158. ...

Songfest, the annual philanthropic event hosted by the Panhellenic and Interfraternity councils at Kent State University, will be held on Sunday, Nov. 22, at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center and will benefit the King Kennedy Community Center in Ravenna. This event is open to the public. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door. Songfest is the culmination of fundraising efforts by Kent State’s Fraternity and Sorority Life. The fraternities and sororities were split into seven teams based on chapter size. The teams will each perform a skit incorpor...

Students who graduate from the Kent State East Liverpool physical therapist assistant program or the occupational therapy assistant program benefit greatly from their experiences during the clinical phases of their education. To ensure that the clinical experiences meet the university’s expectations, faculty and staff from both programs recently held a seminar to train educators who will work with Kent State University at East Liverpool students in clinical settings. According to Nina Sullivan, the academic fieldwork coordinator for the OTA program, this seminar helped educate the next genera...

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