UPDATED JUNE 3, 2015: There are some changes to the media advisory that was sent June 1. Please note that the Kent State University Board of Trustees will convene its next regular business meeting June 4 at 2:30 p.m. (instead of 3 p.m.). The Finance and Administration Committee meeting will meet from 12:45-2:15 p.m. Also, the Board meeting agenda has been revised. It is available at www.kent.edu/bot/meetings. ------------------------------------ The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Thursday, June 4. The Board is scheduled to convene at 2...
East Liverpool 鈥 Dr. Steve Nameth, dean of Kent State University at East Liverpool, announced those students named to the Spring 2015 President鈥檚 or Dean鈥檚 lists. To qualify for the President鈥檚 List, students must have a 4.0 grade point average and must have completed 15 or more credit hours during the semester. To qualify for the Dean鈥檚 List, students must earn a 3.40 or greater grade point average and must have completed 12 or more credit hours for the semester, the majority at the East Liverpool Campus. The students and their hometowns are: President鈥檚 List Burton: Em...
Salem 鈥 Dr. Steve Nameth, dean of Kent State University at Salem, announced those students named to the Spring 2015 President鈥檚 and Dean鈥檚 lists. To qualify for the President鈥檚 List, students must have a 4.0 grade point average and must have completed 15 hours during the semester. To qualify for the Dean鈥檚 List, students must earn a 3.40 or greater grade point average and must have completed 12 or more credit hours for the semester, the majority at the Salem Campus. The students and their hometowns are: President鈥檚 List Boardman: Jennifer Leyko Campbell: Alexandra Petrelis Col...
In fall 2015, Fairless High School students will be within walking distance to Kent State University at Stark, shortening the span to their college degrees. On Thursday, May 28, Kent State Stark Dean Denise Seachrist and Fairless Local Schools Superintendent Broc Bidlack signed a College Credit Plus agreement. The partnership will allow the high school students from the district, located in Navarre, Ohio, to earn university credits toward their college degrees. When fall semester begins, enrolled Fairless students will leave their high school to attend classes, but they won鈥檛 need to go ...
Kent State University nursing and public health students are learning about how faith based organizations play a key role in providing health care around the world. As part of their degree program, 20 students, along with Ken Slenkovich, assistant dean of Kent State鈥檚 College of Public Health, attended the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. This is the 5th year that Kent State students have attended the meeting. They also visited the World Council for Churches to learn how the organization鈥檚 work relates to global health and healing. Read more about Kent State鈥檚 v...
Anshul Sharma, a graduate student in Kent State University鈥檚 Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded the Silver Graduate Student Award at the Materials Research Society鈥檚 2015 Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California. She was recognized for her presentation on 鈥淰isualizing Gold Nanoparticle Chirality via Nematic Liquid Crystals.鈥 According to the Materials Research Society, 鈥渢he awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high order of excellence and dis...
The city of Kent is among the top ten best cities for millenials looking for work, according to www.nerdwallet.com, an online financial and industry resource. Kent ranks in 9th place. NerdWallet highlights the location of Kent State University, as well as attractive employment options for young residents, as some contributing factors to the ranking. The site looked at the millennial population, referring to adults between the ages of 18 and 34. It also took into consideration their average income and unemployment rates. Read more from NerdWallet and the Record-Courier. ...
Kent State University鈥檚 Liquid Crystal Institute庐 will host a symposium called 鈥淐hirality at the Nanoscale鈥 on June 4-5 in the Kent Student Center on the Kent Campus. 鈥淭his event features internationally renowned scientists presenting cutting-edge research on one of the key central topics of life, biology, physical as well as materials science, and engineering: chirality,鈥 said symposium chairman Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., Ohio Research Scholar and associate professor at Kent State鈥檚 Liquid Crystal Institute. 鈥淭he focus of this symposium is the chirality of nanoscale materials and ...
Through a grant facilitated by Dr. Christopher Post, associate professor of geography, the Dominion Foundation awarded Kent State Stark $28,000 for a vertical wind turbine. Wind Turbines of Ohio, located in Alliance, installed the turbine on the southeast side of the campus鈥檚 new Science & Nursing Building. While the turbine will partially power the building, its primary purpose is education and research. 鈥淗aving a wind turbine as part of our campus landscape will make the study of wind power more real to students,鈥 says Post. 鈥淚t will help us recognize more clearly what wi...