Nye will deliver a guest lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 28 and give a poetry reading at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 29 co-sponsored by the Honors College and May 4 Visitors Center. Both events will be held in the Kent Student Center Kiva, and are free and open to the public. The two evening events will celebrate a global conversation through poetry, and engage Kent State and Northeast Ohio communities with a unique opportunity for discussion. "Naomi Shihab Nye is truly a poet of the world, giving voice to our shared humanity across borders, reminding us that our ‘longing for connection' should be ‘t...

Kent State University at East Liverpool formally unveiled the Art Gallery’s permanent art collection, featuring works by area artists and pieces donated by local residents. These included a signed painting by the late Elsa Rubin, wife of Dr. Herschel Rubin, titled “Fall Festival.” Through the donation of his wife’s painting and a monetary gift, Dr. Rubin helped establish the Herschel and Elsa Rubin Art Acquisition Fund on the East Liverpool campus to help continue adding works of art to its permanent collection. An art acquisition committee on campus works to coordinate policies and criteri...

Kent State University’s College of Communication and Information and its School of Journalism and Mass Communication will welcome alumna and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz to its faculty this spring. Schultz, who graduated from Kent State with her bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1979, is a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate.  “It’s such a fantastic opportunity to bring Connie, one of the best feature and opinion writers in the country, to the College of Communication and Information,” said the college’s dean, Amy Reynolds, Ph.D. “I have followed h...

  While Anna Detoro may have roots in Poland, Ohio, she is branching out and learning more about her chosen profession in the green industry. Detoro is a junior at the Kent State Salem Campus, working on her bachelors of science degree in applied horticulture, with a concentration in urban forestry. Since last April, her studies have placed her in the soil lab at the Davey Institute of the Davey Tree Expert Co. in Kent. As part of her cooperative work experience requirement to earn her degree, Detoro went to work at the Davey Institute, upon the recommendation of Chris Carlson, assoc...

The School of Communication Studies Colloquium Series will invite Dr. Joelle Cruz to present Resilience at the Grassroots: Organizing against the Ebola Crisis in Liberia on Friday, Nov. 6 at 4 p.m. in Taylor Hall, room 146, as part of the fall colloquium series. This presentation will provide an opportunity to learn more about crisis communication and how to be creative and resourceful when there is a lack of resources. Cruz traveled to Liberia this past summer to study how one community served as a model in fighting Ebola. “Students will learn how communication can help us resolve crisi...

Kent State University has been awarded a three-year, $444,015 Career Ready Internship Grant from Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation. An anticipated 270 paid internships (169 new and 101 established) will be available during the 2015-2018 academic years. Internships are an integral component of the higher education experience and are valuable to students as they connect in-class learning to career goals and seek employment after college. Often, college graduates find their first jobs through their internships. Some of the goals of the grant are to increase the number of new...

Information Session on October 22 The College Credit Plus program is designed to allow college-ready students, grades 7-12 who qualify for college admission, the opportunity to earn high school and college credit. College Credit Plus can include courses offered on a college campus, online, or at the high school for which credit is awarded from the college. Students seeking admission into the College Credit Plus program must demonstrate college readiness by meeting Kent State’s remediation-free standards. Kent State University at Stark determines college readiness by using ACT or SAT...

David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center, and Mindy Farmer, director of the May 4 Visitors Center lead a writing and discussion workshop on overcoming trauma through creative writing. The workshop took place in the May Prentice House and approximately 20 community members attended. ...

Admit it. We have all used our smartphones at inappropriate and inopportune times: while driving, during family meals, in the bathroom or even the bedroom. We are a society glued to our phones, but when is it considered out of our control? According to researchers at Kent State University, the answer depends on the user. Jian Li, Ph.D., Jacob Barkley, Ph.D., and Andrew Lepp, Ph.D., all from Kent State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services, surveyed 516 college students. They asked the students about daily smartphone use, including inappropriate times such as in class, while...

Organizing prescription medications in a traditional pill dispenser is not effective enough when patients are taking up to 20 different drugs seven to nine times a day.  Not taking the medication at the right time or taking too much results in 700,000 emergency room visits a year, 325,000 hospitalizations and 125,000 deaths. “It’s a trillion dollar problem to deal with medication nonadherence,” said Joel Hughes, Kent State associate psychology professor and director of the Applied Psychology Center at Kent State University. “A lot of people can be helped if we can get a vast majo...