The big screen is getting smaller – so small in fact, you can wear it around your neck. Margarita Benitez, assistant professor in Kent State University’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising, worked with TinyCircuits to create a necklace that can actually play a movie and more. Read more about The Tiny Screen Necklace in OZY.com. ...

Kent State University and the city of Kent, Ohio, were awarded the inaugural Catalytic Partnership Award for their collaboration to revitalize downtown Kent and improve the connectivity of the campus and the city. The Greater Ohio Policy Center established the Catalytic Partnership Award this year for communities that experience positive effects when sectors creatively and effectively collaborate to meet common goals for sustainable development.  A total of $130 million was invested in a redevelopment plan for downtown Kent to bring economic growth to the city. The partnership between t...

Kent State’s Christina McVay, Senior Lecturer from the Department of Pan-African Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, joins a panel of guest speakers to talk about racial identity. The discussion centers around Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP leader in Spokane, Wash., who resigned after claiming to identify as an African American, even though her parents are both white. Hear more from McVay on Sound of Ideas on ideastream. ...

Sarah Hider, a Kent State University graduate student, is the new Miss Ohio. The 24-year-old won the title this past weekend and will go on to compete for the Miss America title. Hider is the second Kent State student in the past two years to be crowned Miss Ohio. Heather Wells won the competition in 2013. Read more about Hider’s win in the Richland Source.  ...

Cleveland Clinic veteran to lead university’s research division Following a national search, Kent State University has selected Paul E. DiCorleto, Ph.D., as its new vice president for research and sponsored programs. DiCorleto comes to Kent State from Cleveland Clinic, where he has served as Sherwin-Page Chair of the Lerner Research Institute since 2002, and from Case Western Reserve University, where he has served as chair of the Department of Molecular Medicine in the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine since 2003. He joins Kent State on Aug. 17. Under the direction of the v...

Kent State University’s College of Education, Health and Human Services welcomes its second class of the Summer Experience for Emerging Diverse Scholars (SEEDS) program on June 17. The SEEDS program promotes graduate education within the college to prospective graduate students of diverse backgrounds, specifically African-American, Latino American, Asian-American and Native American. It is co-sponsored by the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Kent State. The program allows participating students to meet face-to-face with their future faculty members, students in their program and...

Providing simple encouragement goes a long way in forming a strong bond between a dad and his child, but how do you accurately measure that bond? It is a question that Kent State University researchers pondered after many dads scored inaccurately low on traditional tests. Kathryn Kerns, Ph.D., professor of psychological sciences in Kent State’s College of the Arts and Sciences, created new ways to measure the father factor. Read more in The Wall Street Journal as it highlights Kerns’ research and the new techniques used to evaluate parenting. ...

Swedish psychiatrist Harald Blomberg, M.D., will share his work, Rhythmic Movement Training (RMT), at a symposium hosted by Kent State University’s College of Education, Health and Human Services from July 21-28. RMT has been successful since the 1980s in improving emotional functioning, reading and writing, motor difficulties including Parkinson’s disease, and behaviors associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism.  Blomberg will hold four sessions, all located in White Hall, Room 200, on the Kent Campus: Presentation and Reception Tuesday, July 21 5:30-6:...

Kent State University’s Jordan Italiano is getting national attention for his performance both on the field and in the classroom. NFL.com has named Italiano to its 15 for ’15 series. The NFL looks for players who make significant on-field contributions and demonstrate strong academic abilities. Read more about Italiano’s outstanding accomplishments as a Kent State safety and a pre-medicine and biochemistry major in the College of Arts and Sciences on NFL.com and Kentstatesports.com. ...

PNC Bank, N.A., a member of The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (NYSE: PNC) will start providing banking services to Kent State University students and employees in Kent, Ohio, on July 1, 2015. Under this new agreement, PNC will provide student and workplace banking, as well as financial literacy programs for the university’s more than 48,000 students, faculty and staff members for 12 years.  The university requires a banking service provider to support its daily business operations to treasury management, credit card merchant services and retail-university banking. PNC Bank was sele...