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New Face Patrick Wolf Senior IT User Support Analyst Tech Help Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Supervising and administering the Tech Help/Service and Repair Center WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: September 2015 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Best Buy/Geek Squad LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The whole environment, from the people to the atmosphere ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: The ability to grow and expand the possibilities of my life RESIDES IN: Canfield, Ohio HOMETOWN: Youngstown, Ohio EDUCATION: ...

�鶹��ý's Geauga Campus in Burton and Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg is proud to announce its 2016-17 Scholarship recipients. Each year our scholarship committee meets to award qualified students. Heartfelt thanks goes to the generous contributions from our scholarship donors. You are truly making dreams come true! With your support, $42,372 in scholarships for the 2017/18 year were awarded.   ...

Robert D. Hisrich, Ph.D., associate dean for graduate and international programs and Bridgestone Chair in International Marketing in �鶹��ý’s College of Business Administration, has been named to the Startup Officers Leadership Council. The Startup Officers Leadership Council is a new, invitation-only group launched by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2). Hisrich and other council members will be tasked with finding improvements to the university-corporate-startup ecosystem, providing congressional staffers ideas for legislation to fill the “funding ga...

�鶹��ý’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has announced its 2016 Varsity "K" Hall of Fame class consisting of eight new members who will be introduced as part of the 38th induction ceremony on Sept. 17. Joining the Kent State Varsity "K" Athletics Hall of Fame are Adam Brinker (ice hockey, 1984-87), Kirby Dreher (women's golf, 2006-09), John Edwards (men's basketball, 2001-04), Daniel Muir (football, 2003-06), Nick Nemeth (wrestling, 1999-2003), Kylie Reynolds (softball, 2007-10), Matt Rundels (baseball, 1989-92) and Jessica Toocheck (softball, 2005-08).   In addit...

�鶹��ý’s Division of Information Services introduces Kaltura, ​a video application designed with a wide range of powerful tools and features, making it the optimal classroom tool. Kaltura’​s in-depth features and seamless integration with Blackboard Learn will benefit both faculty and students alike. The application is Cloud-based – meaning that it stores and presents video files on the internet – resulting in better performance and stability. K​altura​ uses extensive distribution features, such as channels and playlists, allowing faculty to easily organize and share content ...

Online final grading for Summer 2 (S2) 2016 courses meeting from June 13 through Aug. 6 begins Thursday, Aug. 4, via FlashFAST. Grading also is now available for any Summer 2 (S2) 2016 course section that was flexibly scheduled and has an end date no later than Aug. 6. The deadline for grading submission is midnight on Tuesday, Aug. 9. Any final grades for Summer 2 (S2) 2016 courses not reported in FlashFAST by the grades processing deadline will have to be submitted using the Grade Change Workflow. These Summer 2 (S2) 2016 courses will be available in the Workflow on Thursday, Aug. 11. New...

�鶹��ý freshman Josh Paulin is not only a good student, but also an exemplary citizen. Recently, Paulin saved a man’s life, which motivated Kent State’s Department of Public Safety to honor him for his heroic acts.     It all started while he was waiting at a bus stop near the Kent Student Center Kiva. Paulin saw a man walk behind him, and then heard a loud thump. The man had collapsed. “So I turned around and saw that he was on the ground unconscious,” Paulin recalls. Using his training as an Eagle Scout, Paulin kept the man’s airways open until ...

Mark D. Albaugh, of Uhrichsville, has been hired as the coach for cross country and track and field at �鶹��ý at Tuscarawas. He has 28 years of coaching experience at Claymont, Dover and Garaway schools. He received the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) Fred Dafler Career Coach of the Year award in 2006 for girls cross country and in 2009 for boys cross country. In 2013, he was named to the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame. In addition to his coaching career, Albaugh is employed by Claymont Schools as a junior high school scien...

Four �鶹��ý graduate students in the Department of Psychological Sciences, in the College of Arts and Sciences, won the Sloboda and Bukoski Cup at the Society for Prevention Research’s annual conference. Liz Baker, Karly Cochran, Haylee DeLuca and Logan Stigall represented Kent State against five other teams from Arizona State University, Clemson University, Florida International University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of California, Irvine. For the competition, the team was given a specific data set and then had eight weeks to familiarize the...

Robert D. Hisrich, Ph.D., associate dean for graduate and international programs and Bridgestone Chair in International Marketing in �鶹��ý’s College of Business Administration, has been named to the Startup Officers Leadership Council.  The Startup Officers Leadership Council is a new, invitation-only group launched by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2). Hisrich and other council members will be tasked with finding improvements to the university-corporate-startup ecosystem, providing congressional staffers ideas for legislation to fill the “fu...