The Ohio Council of Higher Education Retirees (OCHER) is offering a day-long conference at Quaker Station in Akron on Wednesday, Apr. 3, for the retired and soon-to-be retired. If you are within 3 years of retirement from Kent State, register by Mar. 27. Attend all day or part of the day. The $15 fee covers lunch, coffee/tea all day and parking. Questions?
To help make performance evaluations valuable and streamlined, Employee & Labor Relations is teaming up with Training & Development to bring you webinars with tips and best practices. Today's session, A Practical Guide to Managing Work Performance (BC 1 hr) covers best practices. And on Mar. 27, join us for Navigating the Online Performance Evaluation System (1 BC hr). More webinars like this will be announced over the coming months, and an email update will come out this week announcing the beginning of the evaluation process.
Sustainability helps create and maintain an environment where humans and nature can exist in productive harmony…and you can make a difference. This Wellness challenge provides an opportunity to learn about and practice lifestyle choices that support personal and global ecological balance. The challenge runs April 1-28.
March 12 - June 7
From comic strips and political cartoons to comic books and graphic novels, the events of May 4, 1970, have been inked by numerous illustrators over the years. The exhibition Graphic Content: Cartoons of May 4 will examine graphic art depictions of May 4 from three generations of acclaimed artists, including Chuck Ayers, Derf Backderf and Katherine Wirick.
Kent State University Athletics is no stranger to a deep run in the NCAA Tournament. The Kent State women’s basketball team recently won the Mid-American Conference Tournament championship for the first time since 2002. That same year, the men’s hoops team reached the Elite Eight in March Madness. According to a bracket by Inside Higher Ed, the student-athletes on the 2023-24 women’s team are championship caliber. The publication’s Academic Performance Tournament, which pits NCAA Tournament basketball teams against each other based on academic success, shows why Kent State is ...
Join us to learn more about the Online MBA and related programs at Kent State University! Attending an information session in person or via a webinar is a great way to learn more and ask questions about our program. Admission to the program is highly competitive. We encourage you to start your application soon!
Join us to learn more about the Online MBA and related programs at Kent State University! Attending an information session in person or via a webinar is a great way to learn more and ask questions about our program. Admission to the program is highly competitive. We encourage you to start your application soon!
Priyanka Kumari, Bijaya Basnet, Maxim Lavrentovich, and Oleg Lavrentovich have published an article in the journal Science on chiral ground states of ferroelectric liquid crystals. An object is considered chiral if it can be distinguished from its mirror image. Chirality is a characteristic of living organisms and is usually caused by chiral chemical structure of constituent molecules. The work by Priyanka Kumari, Bijaya Basnet and others, published in Science on March 22, describes structural chirality in a recently discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal formed by polar molecul...
What does it mean to be Jewish in the modern world? This is the philosophical question that Senior Lecturer Chaya Kessler, the esteemed retiring director of Kent State University’s Jewish Studies Program (JSP), has woven into almost all aspects of her work of fostering dialogue and understanding in an increasingly polarized world.On the evening of May 16, Kent State University will celebrate and honor the career of Kessler, with a special event held at the Kent State University Hotel and Convention Center. With a theme of “Getting to Now – Now More Than Ever,” friends, colleagues and community...
