Isidro Fierro
Dean of the School of International Studies, Universidad Espíritu Santo, Samborondon
Guayaquil, Ecuador
David Dix - Vice President
Vice President of Dix1898
Kent, OH
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is updating their systems and contact centers to better manage the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) process to improve the overall borrower experience. This means that if you are already working toward PSLF or are interested in PSLF, you will soon work with ED directly. Your federal student loans will remain with your existing loan servicer.As they transition the PSLF Program from its current servicer, MOHELA, to ED via StudentAid.gov this spring, processing for all PSLF forms will temporarily be paused beginning in May 2024 through July 2024.Beginni...
Raj Aggarwal - President
Emeritus Sullivan Professor of International Business; Past Dean of University of Akron; Editor of Journal of Teaching Internat. Bus.
Akron, OH
Bravo to our EHHS student eclipse team! Along with 81 citizen science teams across the path of totality in North America, our team captured moment-by-moment images during the eclipse of the Sun’s inner corona—a phenomenon observable solely during a total solar eclipse.These high dynamic range (HDR) images were uploaded in real time to the Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast (DEB) website, providing moment-by-moment viewing opportunities for visitors as the eclipse traversed observation sites along its path. The DEB team is now processing and analyzing the image files from all the teams to advance u...
National Prescription Drug Take Back Day
In collaboration with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), employee wellness partner UH Portage Medical Center will host a one-day opportunity to dispose of expired, unwanted or unused pharmaceutical controlled substances and over-the-counter medications for destruction. This drive-up/drop-off program is anonymous and all medications will be destroyed. The Take Back event will be held Saturday, Apr. 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
In celebration of April 2024 National Poetry Month, Kent State University Geauga will host retired nurse, poet, and essayist Jeanne Bryner, who will read from her work and conduct a workshop on healing through writing. Bryner is the author of several books, including "Breathless," a Wick Poetry Center Chapbook (1995) and "Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated, and Remembered" (2004), both published by Kent State University Press. Most recently, she co-edited the award-winning "Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose" (2018), also published by Kent State UP.&n...
May 4 research group faculty event
What are the research implications of comics and graphic novels? Are comics scholarship? How can they be incorporated into the curriculum? We’re excited to explore our new exhibition, "Graphic Content," with Kent State faculty, and hope you will join us Friday, Apr. 26 at 2 p.m. for a tour and discussion with Vera Camden, Emerita Professor of English at Kent State and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, and Valentino L. Zullo, Anisfield-Wolf Postdoctoral Fellow in English and the Public Humanities at Ursuline College.