Technology that gives groups of people a united voice to communicate by harnessing their collective intelligence is one step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Innovation Fund. reMesh, founded by Kent State University graduate student Andrew Konya, offers a community, group, nation or planet of people the ability to speak with one voice; a voice that represents the collective thinking of all people within the group. The underlying technology was prototyped at a HacKSU hackathon earlier this year, and over the past six months, it has been under development into ...

Rural and underserved Ohio students are able to receive speech-language therapy services through Kent State University via an innovative online videoconferencing system. More than 100 children enrolled in preschool through high school with identified communication impairments from Montpelier Exempted Village Schools in northwest Ohio and Greenfield Exempted Village Schools in southeast Ohio are receiving speech-language therapy services through Kent State’s telepractice project.  Kent State faculty members Patty Chafin and Robin Alvares, Ph.D., are part of the telepractice project and pr...

Notable casting director tapped for Media Distinguished Leadership Award Kent State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication has named Kate O’Brian, president of Al Jazeera America, the 2015 winner of the Robert G. McGruder Distinguished Guest Lecture and Award for Diversity. The award recognizes the accomplishments of media professionals who encourage diversity in the field of journalism. Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication will honor O’Brian at an awards luncheon and lecture on Wednesday, April 1. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will ...

Student entrepreneurs from across all majors and disciplines now have an opportunity to apply and receive critical startup funding to advance their business idea with the initiation of the Blackstone LaunchPad Student Launch Fund. “We are excited to launch this fund through the generosity of Kent State donors and alumni,” says Julie Messing, executive director of the Blackstone LaunchPad program at Kent State University. “As part of the interdisciplinary nature of Blackstone LaunchPad, the Student Launch Fund is available to any Kent State student, from freshmen to Ph.D., in any major,...

Kent State University’s Supplier Diversity program is committed to hiring Minority Business Enterprises (MBE) and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (WOBE) to restore the buildings around campus. The Supplier Diversity program is an important component of Kent State’s overall diversity effort. Teresa Golden, president of Environmental Flooring Group, LLC, was hired to replace the office carpet in the Energy and Power Plant. “This is my first business,” Golden said. “I’m hoping that I can provide Kent State with quality flooring when the need arises, and as time goes on, I hope that I can e...