Jennifer Cunningham, Ph.D., professor in the English Department, recently published "The Community of Inquiry Framework in Writing Studies: Designing for Learning with Peer Review." The book, a culmination of eight years of research and composing, investigates peer review in hybrid and online first-year writing courses. In March 2017 at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in Portland, Oregon, the four authors of this book attended an Online Writing Instruction (OWI) Standing Group meeting. Not having met previously, they found themselves in conversation, given i...

Mialie T. Szymanski, in the office of the Dean at Kent State Trumbull, recently presented at the 3rd Biennial Children’s Literature Symposium: The Pleasures and Problems of Pooh. The international symposium, hosted by Hollins University in Roanoke, VA, reflected on the role of classic children's literature in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the publication of A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh."Mialie's presentation, entitled "Pawsitive Energy: Winnie-the-Pooh and Tigger, Too, the Hundred Acre Wood Crew as Our Emotional Support Animals," explored the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh characters as lite...

Student doctor Jacob Wielgomas, MS-IV, is contributing to the future of limb-salvage medicine as a co-author of a newly published review in the Journal of Wound Care.The article, “Angiosome-directed revascularisation and the woundosome paradigm in chronic limb-threatening ischaemia: a narrative review,” brings together an interdisciplinary team of podiatric physicians, vascular surgeons, interventional specialists and wound-care experts to examine how revascularization strategies can improve healing and limb salvage. Wielgomas is the only student doctor among the nine authors and is affil...

Over the past decade, the Center for the Visual Arts (CVA) has served as a hub for artistic inquiry, creative growth and community engagement. As Kent State’s School of Art celebrates ten years in the CVA, we honor the artists, educators, students and supporters who have helped shape its success. The School of Art will be hosting The Benefit to Celebrate 10 Years in the Center for the Visual Arts on Saturday, November 13th from 5-8 p.m. This event brings together students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members while celebrating the work created in the groundbreaking facility. Atten...

 November is shaping up to be one of the biggest months of the season at the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University – Tuscarawas, with four very different nights of live entertainment on the schedule: legendary rock band Kansas, country powerhouse Ashley McBryde, innovative string trio Simply Three, and rock ’n’ roll favorites Three Dog Night.The month kicks off with Kansas on November 1, bringing the band’s progressive-rock classics and decades of hits to New Philadelphia. Fans can expect an unforgettable night of music featuring songs that have become part of the soundtrack of ...

For years, the compact disc seemed destined for the same cultural graveyard as cassette tapes, VHS tapes and other relics of a pre-streaming world.Then something unexpected happened: Young people started buying them again.Recent headlines have declared that CDs are making a comeback, with a new generation embracing the format that once seemed hopelessly outdated. The Washington Post reported in September that CD sales in the first half of 2026 had jumped 16% to 16.3 million units, outpacing the growth of vinyl. Rolling Stone reported similar numbers, noting that Gen Z and millennials are helpi...