The Cook-Off is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 17 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. Hosted by the Office of Global Education along with Kent State Dining Services, the Cook-Off features food and beverages from around the world. The event is free and open to all.    Six student culinary teams – from Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Nepal, Saudi Arabia and South Korea – have been selected to compete and will each prepare and present a different cultural entrée and beverage from its home country. The teams will compete for first, second and third place a...

Peggy Nzomo, University Libraries, is the 2016 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) International Relations Committee’s “Bogle-Pratt International Library Travel Fund.” She received this award at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress held Aug. 13-19 in Columbus, Ohio. She also was one of 50 librarians who received the 2016 IFLA Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Fellows scholarship. ...

Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, presented a poster titled “Considerations of Health Information Exchange Use for Long Term Care Participation in Accountable Care Organizations,” at the American Health and Information Management Association LTPAC Summit, in Reston, Virginia, in June 2016. ...

Marianne Martens, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, is author of an invited chapter titled “Reading the Readers: Tracking Visible Online Reading Audiences” in P. M. Rothbauer, K.I. Skjerdingstad, L.E.F. McKechnie, and K. Oterholm  (Eds.), Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory/Practice/Politics. (2016). Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press. ...

Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, is first author on a paper titled "Evolving Repertoires: Digital Media Use in Contentious Politics," which was presented by co-author James Losey at the International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan, on June 10, 2016. ...

Peggy Nzomo, University Libraries, co-authored an article titled “Multilingual Information Retrieval and Use: Perceptions and Practices Amongst Bi/Multilingual Academic Users” in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, volume 42, issue 5, September 2016, pages 495-502. Co-authors are Isola Ajiferuke, Liwen Vaughan and Pamela McKenzie, all from the University of Western Ontario. Web link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133316300969 ...