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Ford Next Generation Learning community supports College and Career Academy for Akron students �鶹��ý is offering special expertise and resources to high school students attending Akron Public Schools to include immersive opportunities with the university’s fashion, arts and architecture programs. The announcement was made May 16 as Akron Public Schools was named a Ford Next Generation Learning (NGL) community in a ceremony at the National Inventors Hall of Fame STEM Middle School in downtown Akron. The ceremony also focused on a newly created academy and partnership betwe...

�鶹��ý at East Liverpool held its annual nursing pinning ceremony May 10, during which 45 students were recognized for receiving degrees through the associate degree in nursing (ADN) program. Linda Warino, executive director of the Ohio Nurses Association, District 3, presented the ONA District 3 Lori Grenich Student Nurse Award to Ryan Greier, recognizing excellence in clinical nursing and professional awareness. Ashley Chisom received the East Liverpool ADN Nursing Professionalism award, as well as the ADN academic award. Colleen Herbert received the ADN service award. The ...

�鶹��ý at East Liverpool recognized the academic achievements of several students during its annual Wall of Fame and Honors Banquet, as well as the support from community members. The late Brett Hartenbach received the Lifetime Achievement Award, based on his professional career, community service and support of Kent State East Liverpool. Hartenbach studied journalism at Kent State East Liverpool and later became an accomplished writer, musician, song writer and performer who took the stage at venues around the world. The late Adam Steel received the Friend of the Campus Award...

May 13:  Dr. C. Lockwood Reynolds is an associate professor of economics in the College of Business Administration at Kent State. Dr. Reynolds’ research is in the area of empirical economics, where he attempts to distinguish between correlational and causal factors on topics ranging from local tax policy to college access and affordability.  The effects of location-based tax policies on the distribution of household income  The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice  Where to attend? Estimating the effects of beginning college at a two-year institu...

We are happy to announce that associate professor Kara L. Robinson will now serve as the subject librarian for the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and its undergraduate programs in Gender and Sexuality, LGBT Studies, and Women’s Studies.   Kara currently serves as the subject librarian for a number of departments whose interests and resources intersect with those of the Center.  She is looking forward to working with your students and faculty to identify materials we already own that will support their research interests and to seek out and provide access to addit...

On Wednesday, May 10, a few days before Spring 2017 Commencement ceremonies, approximately 400 graduating international students and their friends and family gathered in the Kent Student Ballroom to celebrate their upcoming achievement during the annual International Graduate Student Reception. During the event, students shared congratulations about their upcoming rite-of-passage, traded selfies, enjoyed the food and refreshments provided and reflected on their long, yet all-too-short academic journey at �鶹��ý. The graduates in attendance also received a commemorative stole lis...

  An in-depth report on voting rights and regulations by the Carnegie-Knight News21 Initiative, produced by students from �鶹��ý and 17 other universities, has received a top national award for student investigations. Investigative Reporters & Editors has named the Carnegie-Knight News21 “Voting Wars” project the recipient of the IRE Award for Student Reporting in the large university category. Headquartered at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, News21 is a multimedia reporting initiative established by the Carn...