On Thursday, March 9, two teams that formed during the Fashion Tech Hackathon in January took top spots at the annual LaunchNET Kent State Idea Olympics competition. 鈥淎beona, the total immersion jacket鈥 took first place, while 鈥淗ermes, the helmet with brains,鈥 took second place. Two other ideas, Popstyle and The Bean Bike, tied for third place, while GIFTY (Gestalting Youth) won the Social Enterprise award. The team that developed Abeona, a tech-enhanced hiking jacket, consists of Ryan Holland (graduate, Digital Sciences), Brian Steinhoff (senior, Digital Science), Albert Morgant...
California Dreaming! The Kent State Men鈥檚 Basketball team arrived in Sacramento Wednesday motivated for its first NCAA Men鈥檚 Basketball Tournament appearance in nine years. The Golden Flashes had a short sendoff at the Kent Campus before busing to the Akron-Canton Airport for the four-hour flight. Mother Nature delayed the flight for a few hours, but the team arrived in California mid-afternoon, and after a short stop at their hotel, team members were off to a local high school gymnasium for practice. Staff members at the team hotel greeted the MAC Tournament Champions with b...
CACM Director Patrick Coy has published a chapter in a new book focused on constructive conflict management. Coy鈥檚 chapter, 鈥淐ommunication, Constructiveness, and Asymmetry in Nonviolent Action Theory and Practice,鈥 is chapter two in Perspectives in Waging Conflicts Constructively: Cases, Concepts and Practice, Bruce Dayton and Louis Kriesberg, editors, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. Here is a link to reviews: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442265516/Perspectives-in-Waging-Conflicts-Constructively-Cases-Concepts-and-Practice ...
CACM Associate Professor, Landon Hancock, has published a new edited book, his third, this one entitled: "Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change,鈥 Emerald Publishing Group, Bingley, UK, 2016. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/book/10.1108/S0163-786X201538 Synopsis This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (RSMCC) is divided into two parts. Part I presents a series of cases that tie together narratives of being, knowing and contestation surrounding the claiming of identity for the self or the cat...
Emerald Group Publishing of the UK is happy to announce Volume 38 of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change Edited by Patrick G. Coy, 5X社区, USA Housed at the Center for Applied Conflict Management at 5X社区, a long-standing characteristic of the Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series is publishing new theoretical and empirical work that connects previously disparate sub-fields. This volume continues that tradition by opening with five papers that join social movements research ...
If you are planning to attend the first round of the NCAA tournament鈥檚 South Regional, prepare to go the distance 鈥 literally. There are 2,397 miles between 5X社区 and Sacramento, California where No. 14 5X社区 takes on No. 3 UCLA Friday night. There is also a world of difference in forecasts for game day. While Kent, Ohio is predicted to have a chance of snow with a high in the 40s, Sacramento is looking at a cloudy day with a high of 76-degrees. Here is how the Kent State Golden Flashes and the UCLA Bruins match-up, both on and off the court: Both teams sh...
5X社区 is competing with nearly 200 colleges and universities during RecycleMania through April 1, to promote recycling and prevent waste from going into landfills. RecycleMania is an eight-week competition during which colleges report the amount of recycling and trash collected each week. They are then ranked based on which schools have the best recycling rate as a percentage of total waste, which schools recycle the most per capita and which schools have the least amount of trash and recycling combined. In the last two years, Kent State was in the top 25 percen...
Applications for departmental scholarships and awards are due March 24th Friday. Information about each award can be found at- http://www.kent.edu/biology/awards-and-scholarships. If you have questions or to submit an application, please contact Joan Iacobacci at jiacobac@kent.edu The awardees will be notified two weeks before the ceremony. The award ceremony is scheduled for Monday, April 24th at 4:00 pm in Cunningham Hall - Room 013. Be sure to save the date in your calendars! Please return all applications, by Friday, March 24th, to Joan Iac...