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  Dr. Daniel Dankovich, lecturer-biology at Kent State East Liverpool, received the 2019 Outstanding Teaching Award from the University Teaching Council at Kent State. This is the university’s highest honor for nontenure-track faculty. Dankovich began teaching part-time for Kent State in 2010, teaching on the Salem, Twinsburg, Burton and East Liverpool campuses. He became a fulltime faculty member on the East Liverpool Campus in 2018, teaching human biology and anatomy/physiology. Now living in Canfield, Dankovich graduated from Austintown Fitch High School in 1980. He received two b...

Huffman Mayer Paolo Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors is announcing a combined $140,000 in gifts to support �鶹��ý at Ashtabula’s Rising Scholars program.  The initial $90,000 will go directly to Kent State Ashtabula and the program while another $50,000 will go into the Rising Scholars Fund through the Ashtabula Foundation. ““I am eternally grateful to the staff at Huffman Mayer Paolo Wealth Management Group for their leadership in support of the Rising Scholars program,” said Dean and Chief Administrative Officer Susan J. Stocker, Ph.D. “The culture that ...

�鶹��ý Honors College alumna Diana Al-Hadid has made a significant impact on the art world since she graduated from the university with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in sculpture and a bachelor’s degree in art history in 2003 and subsequently established her art studio in Brooklyn, New York. Her works of art have been featured in both group and solo exhibitions throughout the country for more than a decade, but one of her works has recently made a home in northeast Ohio.    Al-Hadid’s piece “A Way with Words,” measuring close to three stories, is now featured in the...

Organizers of the recent Voices for Change Educator’s Summit at �鶹��ý say the curriculum developed at the event can be used by teachers worldwide, so that the lessons of May 4, 1970, will continue to be shared. The summit, held in August, was one about 100 events planned for the 2019-20 academic year to support the 50th commemoration of May 4, 1970, the day when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on Kent State students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, killing four and wounding nine. “One of the major goals of the educator’s summit was to e...

This fall, more than 900 students transferred to �鶹��ý. National Transfer Student Week is Oct. 21-25, and the university is hosting events specifically designed for transfer students. With a percentage of the student body made up of transfer students of different class standing and different majors coming from all over the country, this is an opportunity for these students and the Kent State community to engage. The Student Success Programs staff strives to make sure students are aware of the opportunities they have as transfer students. “We’ve created a tran...

Thirteen cross-disciplinary teams presented in the Kent State competition for Mission:Life on Wednesday, October 2, 2019. The winning team, Virtual Harmony, will be presenting their concept in the international competition at the PUCPR University in Brazil on November 11. Virtual Harmony is a novel concept for a music therapy interface utilizing virtual reality. The team is made up of three Kent State students: Alena Miskinis, undergraduate student in Music and English, Xiangxu “Shawn” Lin, a graduate student in Computer Science, and Shadi Kanan, graduate student in the College of Nursing.&nbs...

What do you do when your mascot has a birthday coming up? You start planning, and we’re not talking about a party.   When it comes to managing a social media account -- or multiple social media accounts -- a content plan is imperative. A social media manager needs to make sure his or her accounts are strategic, cohesive and engaging. One way to achieve those goals is to take the time to map out the content available.  For the university accounts, we use a content calendar (see our example calendar to the right) to make those decisions. We’ll note everything from universit...

  Dr. Rachael Blasiman, associate professor-psychology at Kent State Salem, received the 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award, sponsored by the Kent State Alumni Association. This is the university’s most prestigious honor in teaching. She began teaching on the Salem Campus in 2010 and became a full-time instructor in 2012. Blasiman received a Bachelor of Science in biology from Mount Union University, followed by a Master of Arts and a doctorate degree in experimental psychology from Case Western Reserve University. At Case Western, Blasiman taught two courses and served in its Seminar A...