Work in Progress: Continuing the installation of the temporary duct and assembly of new AHU1 in the East side mechanical room. Stripped topsoil from addition footprint. Phoenix air valve replacement in the Annex research labs continues per schedule. Continue coordination of the west mechanical room abatement and planning for demolition of AHU 3. Excavated existing 10" water main that will be relocated for addition. Fabricating duct for cross connect of AHU 2 & AHU 3. Completed demolition of basement electrical room. Looking ahead for next week: Contin...
Work in Progress: Floor electrical boxes in room 101 & 104 are complete. Plumbing under slab is complete in 101 & 104. The sanitary tie-in and under slab rough-in is complete and inspected for the new restrooms in addition. Electrical raceways have been installed in crawlspace. Completed miscellaneous demolition the 2nd floor. Abatement work is substantially complete in the building. Looking ahead: CMU walls to begin student machine shop & receiving on 2/5. Complete demolition on the second floor. Electrical ro...
Project Advancing Wellness and Resilience Education (AWARE) Kent, a new three-year program at Kent State University, is offering a Mental Health First Aid course to Kent State University students, faculty, and staff. The course is an evidence-based training that teaches people to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders. The eight-hour course is free, and participants earn 1500 FLASHperks (a rewards program that offers prizes) for completing the course. The date of the first course will be announced soon. For more information or to be ...
Lala Hajibayova, School of Library and Information Science, presented "Participatory Knowledge Representation and Organization Systems" at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) SIG/CR Workshop, Conceptual Crowbars and Classification at the Crossroads: The Impact and Future of Classification Research in St. Louis, Missouri, in November 2015. ...
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Susanna Fein, Department of English, edited The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: York Medieval Press/Boydell and Brewwer, (2016), xi, 253 pp. ...
Molly Merryman, Kent State University associate professor of sociology and founding director of the Kent State Women’s Center, has been awarded the university’s 2016 Diversity Trailblazer Award. The annual Diversity Trailblazer Award recognizes diversity pioneers associated with Kent State who have displayed exemplary contributions to the area of diversity in the university. Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center also was awarded the university’s first-ever Unity Award for Diversity, which recognizes the contributions of any university department that demonstrates significant contributions to the ...
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has granted an extension on producing and filing the 1095-C tax form. As such, the 1095-C tax form is not required for full-time, benefits-eligible employees to file 2015 taxes. Kent State University will still make the 1095-C form available to employees as soon as possible, and will file the forms with the IRS once they are completed. There is a box on the 1040 tax form that should be checked if you had “qualifying health care coverage” for all of 2015. Please direct any questions to the Benefits Office at 330-672-3107 or email benefits@kent.edu. ...