All are invited to come and honor America’s veterans as Kent State University holds its annual Veterans Day observance. This year’s program, “Honoring All Who Serve,” will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 11 a.m. on the Student Green at Risman Plaza. The outdoor program will include a flag-raising ceremony conducted by a joint color guard from the university’s Army and Air Force ROTC programs, and remarks from Kent State President Beverly Warren. The guest speaker for this year’s event is retired U.S. Air Force Col. Richard “Rex” Ray. All are invited to come and pay tribute to America’s ve...
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Iris Harvey, Division of University Relations, presented “Leadership: Lean in With Purpose — Power Will Follow” at the Greater Akron Chamber’s KNOW luncheon on Oct. 28 at Portage Country Club in Akron, Ohio. KNOW is a personal and professional development program for business women in the Greater Akron region. The mission is to cultivate the talent within each other by reaching out to today’s women executives and tomorrow’s leaders. ...
Kent State University football player Jordan Italiano, a senior safety from Canfield, Ohio, has been selected by the National Football Foundation as a 2015 National Scholar-Athlete and finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy presented by Fidelity Investments. Italiano is the first Kent State player to earn the honor. Twelve finalists, including nine Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) players, were chosen among a pool of 135 candidates. Each player receives an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship and will attend the 58th National Football Foundation Annual Awards Dinner in New York City, alongsid...
StoryCorps, the pioneering oral history project, has launched “The Great Thanksgiving Listen” – its most ambitious initiative to date. WKSU and Kent State University are promoting the project in hopes of encouraging high school and college students throughout Northeast Ohio to participate. StoryCorps is working with high school teachers across the country to ask students to interview a grandparent or elder over Thanksgiving 2015 using the new free StoryCorps mobile app. Resources available at www.WKSU.org include a short video tutorial on creating good audio interviews. The app allows student...
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From her computer to her phone, at all hours of the day and night – yep – there really is a face behind all those tweets, postings and pictures on Kent State University’s social media pages. For nearly two years, Nicole Carlone, social media community manager in Kent State’s University Communications and Marketing department, is the one connecting with you on social media. “I really do feel like I have a connection with people on campus,” Carlone says. “It’s funny when I actually meet them and they’re like – oh.” And she has lots of platforms to actively use. You name it, Kent State h...
We have all seen them explode on social media. They are the posts that feature the outlandish, the cute and the funny messages that go viral. But how does one message catch on and others do not? It is a question that Kent State University researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences are trying to answer, but as it relates to more serious information shared on social media, such as how we response to disaster warnings and other crises. The National Science Foundation has awarded Xinyue Ye, Ph.D., assistant professor of geography and director of Kent State’s c...
National Radiologic Technology Week is held each November to recognize the date that Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered the x-ray, which was Nov.8, 1895. The annual observation helps promote the important role that medical imaging and radiation therapy professionals play in providing quality patient care and a safe healthcare environment. The week-long observation calls attention to the valuable work of rad tech professionals in healthcare and the highly-technical images they produce. These images play an integral role in the medical process and in the lives of millions of patients. ...