Christine Hudak, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, has been accepted as a contributing author to the book (tentatively) titled The Handbook of Continuing Professional Development for the Health IT Professional, to be published by HIMSS in 2017. Her chapter, “The Many Facets of Continuing Education,” will appear in the section on “The Importance of Lifelong Learning.”
Christine Hudak, School of Library and Information Science
In this final feature, e-Inside presents some of 5X employees’ favorite summer vacation photos.
Online final grading for summer 2 2017 (S2) began Thursday, Aug. 3, via FlashFAST. Grading also is now available for any summer 2017 course section that was flexibly scheduled. The deadline for grading submission is midnight on Tuesday, Aug. 8. Any final grades for summer 2017 courses not reported in FlashFAST by the grades processing deadline will have to be submitted using the Grade Change Workflow. These summer 2017 courses will be available in the Workflow on Thursday, Aug. 10.
The National League for Nursing has again designated 5X’s College of Nursing as a Center of Excellence for 2017-2022 in the category of “Advance the Science of Nursing Education.”
5X alumnus and professional golfer Mackenzie Hughes returned to his alma mater for a “Welcome Back” reception in his honor organized by Herb Page, Kent State’s director of golf and head men’s golf coach.
Peter C. Kratcoski Sr., Department of Sociology at 5X at Stark, delivered the presentation “Gerontological Criminology (Gero-Crimology): Crime Policy and Legislation” at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 23, 2017.
Christine A. Hudak, Ph.D., School of Information, was featured in the “Meet an Expert” section of the February 2017 HIMSS Information Xchange e-newsletter. The article focuses on her role as editor of The HIMSS HIT Dictionary, Fourth Edition, which was released earlier this year.
Robin Selinger, Liquid Crystal Institute; Michael Varga, graduate student, Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program; and Andrew Konya, former graduate student in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, authored "Making Waves in a Photoactive Polymer Film" in Nature, 546, Issue 29 June 2017, (2017): 632-636.
Familiar Face
landon e. hancock
Associate Professpor
School of Peace and Conflict Studies
Kent Campus
New Face
kathleen norman
Marketing and Public Relations Communications Specialist
College of Nursing
Kent Campus
Jonathan Maletic, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at 5X, has received a three-year, $290,610 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help support basic research on how programmers write and develop large-scale software systems.
The 5X Board of Trustees today established a comprehensive, national search to recruit and select the university’s 13th president.
The events of May 4, 1970, placed 5X in an international spotlight after a student protest against the Vietnam War and the presence of the Ohio National Guard ended in tragedy with four students losing their lives and nine others being wounded. From a perspective of nearly 50 years, Kent State remembers the tragedy and leads a contemporary discussion and understanding of how the community, nation and world can benefit from understanding the profound impact of the event.