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New KSU Navigate App Improves Student-Advising Experience, Connects Students to Resources
Kent State University has launched a new app, KSU Navigate, that streamlines the academic advising process, making it easier than ever before for students to communicate with their advisor. The app is accessible through iOS, Android, and a web browser, making it compatible with phones and laptop or …
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Kent State Students Explore Law School and Career Paths
On March 6, the Pre-Law Center and the Office of Career Exploration and Development at Kent State University hosted their annual Law School and Careers Exploration event in the Kent Student Center. The organizers said it was a huge success with over 70 students attending.“It was well-attended by man…
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Daniel Holm
I'm immensely enjoying my return to full-time faculty this academic year (2024-25). I wrote a couple of long-neglected papers during my fall sabbatical and enjoyed a bit of traveling, first to the west to see the spectacular and misnamed Crater Lake and the fabulous Redwoods, then to the Sedona Red …
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Tim Gallagher
"Over the past couple years, my students and I have been working across timescales trying to improve our understanding of how carbon is transformed, stored within, and lost from terrestrial environments. This work has kept us busy both in the lab on campus and sent us as far away as the Southe…
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David Hacker
"Greetings everyone. My biggest highlight recently was a research sabbatical in Fall 2024 where I spent time in the wilds of Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada. My primary goal was to focus on the structural similarities and differences between enigmatic mega-scale gravity slides and low-angle tectonic…
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Allyson Tessin
The last few years have been very productive and exciting for our research lab group! The team has spent a lot of time at sea. In winter 2022, I sailed off the coast of South Africa on International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 392: Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. Two PhD stud…
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2024 Distinguished Alumni: Daniel Lux (B.S. 1974)
"My introduction to geology was from Jean Metzler and Dick Uthe at the Kent State Stark campus in the fall quarter of 1970. Soon I was on the Kent campus taking Mineralogy with X-Ray Ernie, aka Professor Carlson. The professors that influenced me the most were Dr Manus and Dr Heimlich. I had a work …
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2022 Distinguished Alumni: Joseph Hannibal (M.S. 1980, Ph.D. 1990)
"I came to geology late, taking my first course at Cuyahoga Community College at night while employed as a librarian (having earned an Anthropology Degree and a Master of Library Science degree at KSU). The night course was an eye-opener, rekindling an interest I had in geology as a kid after …
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2023 Distinguished Alumni: Mark Jones (M.S. 2000)
"While enrolled at Cleveland State University, I attended Kent State as an undergraduate visiting student and then KSU’s field camp. I then attended KSU full-time and graduated with an MS in Geology in 2000.""I worked in environmental consulting, eventually becoming employed with Metcalf &…
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2021 Distinguished Alumni: Nancy Ritter Zolidis (BA 1970)
Nancy Ritter Zolidis took her first Physical Geology class in 1966 with Dr. Glenn Frank and decided that geology would be her major. After her time at Kent State, she pursued an MS degree in Water Resources Management and a PhD degree in Land Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. S…
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