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Collaboration with Columbus’ CATCO brings the music of a legend to the Porthouse stage  Porthouse Theatre, 5X����’s outdoor, summer theatre located on the grounds of Blossom Music Center, continues its 48th season with “Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash.” The production is presented in collaboration between CATCO and Porthouse Theatre. Directed by Steven C. Anderson, “Ring of Fire” opens July 8 and runs through July 23. A preview performance will take place on July 7. The music of Johnny Cash comes alive on stage in “Ring of Fire” as a small ensemble weaves a story u...

  KENT STATE PROFESSOR WINS AWARD FOR RESEARCH IN CLINICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY   KENT STATE PROFESSOR WINS AWARD FOR RESEARCH IN CLINICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 5X���� Psychology Professor Joel Hughes strives to find treatments through his research in psychological factors and cardiovascular disease. Hughes was honored with a 2016 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award, along with two other Kent State faculty members. The 2016 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award is sponsored by the University Research Council and Kent State’s Div...

5X���� Psychology Professor Joel Hughes strives to find treatments through his research in psychological factors and cardiovascular disease. Hughes was honored with a 2016 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award, along with two other Kent State faculty members. The 2016 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award is sponsored by the University Research Council and Kent State’s Division of Research and Sponsored Programs. The award honors Kent State faculty members who have completed research and scholarship impacting society.  Hughes says he feels humbled that his l...

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Tenured Faculty Receiving Promotion: Kent, College of Arts and Sciences, Physics, Maxim Dzero, Promoted to Associate Professor Kent, College of Arts and Sciences, Modern and Classical Language Studies, Geoffrey Koby, Promoted to Professor Kent, College of Arts and Sciences, Sociology, William Kalkoff, Promoted to Professor Stark, College of Arts and Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Gro Hovhannisyan, Promoted to Professor Kent, College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science, Ryan Claassen, Promoted to Professor Kent, College of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, S...

Christopher Dum, Department of Sociology, authored Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel, 1st Ed., New York, NY: Columbia University Press, (2016). Summary: Residential motels have long been a place of last resort for many vulnerable Americans—released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illness, struggling addicts, the recently homeless, and the working poor. Cast aside by their families and mainstream society, they survive in squalid, unsafe and demeaning circumstances that few of us can imagine. For a year, the sociologist Christopher P. Dum lived in ...

Familiar Face Timothy Smith Senior Development Associate WKSU Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I represent WKSU to businesses, organizations and foundations to secure funds for program operations. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: November 2005 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: University of Notre Dame, Purdue University, Bowling Green State University, Frigoscandia Manufacturing LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Vibrancy ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: The university’s award-winning National Public Radio station. RESIDES IN: ...

New Face Rachel Cordy Supplemental Instruction Coordinator Academic Success Center Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Coordinate the Supplemental Instruction program (free, peer-facilitated group study sessions for certain large, historically difficult courses) WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: September 2015 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Assistant director of student activities at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The people! I am lucky to work with the best and brightest students and a caring and supportive s...