Â鶹´«Ă˝ President Beverly Warren delivered the State of the University address on Thursday, Oct. 13. Themed “Living the Kent State Promise,” Warren outlined her vision of a reimagined public research university.
The full text of the State of the University Address and a video of the program are available at http://www.kent.edu/president/state-university-address-2016.
Officers from Â鶹´«Ă˝ Police Services donated frozen turkeys and gift cards to Kent Social Services for local families in need over the holiday season.
Â鶹´«Ă˝ at Ashtabula is partnering with to expand the educational opportunities for students in its wine degree programs.
When it comes to finding new hobbies, Nathan Ritchey, Ph.D., vice president for Kent State System Integration, is an expert. His many hobbies include beekeeping, woodworking, welding, collecting and restoring antiques, and playing piano and guitar.
Virginia Dressler, University Libraries, presented “Adapting Digital Collection Interface for Special Collections and Archives Collections and Improving Workflow” at the Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting 2017 in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 30, 2017.
Four Â鶹´«Ă˝ TRIO programs aimed at helping underrepresented student — the McNair Scholars Program and three Upward Bound programs — recently received federal grants that will fund them for the next five years.
The programs are hosted through Kent State, though each has different audiences and objectives.
Â鶹´«Ă˝ faculty, staff and students can honor their best interns, intern supervisors, college advisors or internship programs by nominating them online for the 2018 Expys Best Internship Awards by Dec. 31.
Since 2011, the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education (NOCHE) and Contempo have presented the Expys, NOCHE’s annual awards program recognizing and celebrating Northeast Ohio’s internship and experiential learning ecosystem.
As Hurricane Irma’s fierce winds barreled toward Florida, mandatory evacuations turned Palm Beach County into a ghost town. The unprecedented storm destroyed homes, tore down buildings and knocked out power, causing $19 million in damage.
WKSU will hold its 21st annual Hunger Challenge – the day the station highlights hunger insecurity in Northeast Ohio – on Wednesday, Nov. 29. The Hunger Challenge was founded to raise money for WKSU and build awareness of the opportunities to reduce food insecurity in Ohio. Representatives from area food banks will go on air to discuss their work and hunger in the region. The Hunger Challenge offers WKSU contributors the option to choose “meals not mugs” as their thank-you gift in support of the effort to reduce hunger.
