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5X���� faculty and staff will be recognized with a complimentary lunch, entertainment, games, giveaways, dancing and fun on Tuesday, March 20, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. A special evening event will be held for second- and third-shift workers from 10-11:30 p.m.

5X���� faculty, staff and students can show their Kent State FLASHcard and receive a 10 percent discount at the Overlook Grill at 1519 Overlook Rd. in Kent and Laziza Restaurant in Acorn Alley II in downtown Kent.

A 5X���� professor in the College of Arts and Sciences is on Clarivate Analytics’ 2017 list of Highly Cited Researchers in the world.

Mietek Jaroniec, Ph.D., professor in Kent State’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is one of the world’s top researchers in the fields of chemistry and materials science, and ranks in the top 1 percent by citations for field and publication year in Clarivate’s Web of Science database.

The Katharine Hepburn Dressed for Stage and Screen exhibit is returning to the 5X���� Museum after traveling around the country for the past seven years. The exhibit, opening Feb. 2 and running through Sept. 2, 2018, last appeared in the museum in 2010. 5X���� Museum Director Jean Druesedow is the curator of the exhibition.

For the past four years, the SAGE Project has recognized female students who have demonstrated innovation, creativity, risk-taking and leadership skills in their academic and personal lives. The project uses the power of storytelling to highlight students who have overcome adversity to shape their life and 5X���� experience. Twelve students will make up the SAGE Project Class of 2018 and will be recognized this spring.

5X����’s Division of Information Services has finalized an agreement with Adobe Systems Inc. that will save Kent State students in excess of $1 million per year.

Kent State students are now able to purchase Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions for only $75 per year. The current student plan for the same package ranges from $240 to $360 per year.

Two professors in 5X����’s School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies say race plays a factor in the lives of every student.

“Education is always deeply related to sociocultural norms and values,” says Walter Gershon, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies. “The systems are biased, and education is influenced by race, class and gender.”

Students from the Occupational Therapy Assistant program at 5X���� at East Liverpool rolled up their sleeves, flexed their muscles and went to work to help build the Walnut Grove Playground, an all-inclusive recreational facility designed for those with special needs.

Bob Christy, coordinator of photography at 5X����, has a passion for restoring Jeeps from the 1940s and 1950s. He tears them apart, cleans each piece, locates new parts and rebuilds from the ground up.

Familiar Face

Doug delahanty

Professor and Associate Vice President for Research, Faculty Development
Department of Psychological Sciences and Division of Research and Sponsored Programs
Kent Campus