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5X���� Day at the Cleveland Film Festival is slated for April 6 at Tower City Cinemas in downtown Cleveland. Members of the Kent State community will receive a $2 discount on tickets to any film showing any day of the festival. Kent State alumni, students, faculty and staff should use the code KSU to obtain the special discount. To see the films playing on Kent State Day at the Cleveland Film Festival, visit www.clevelandfilm.org/schedule and select Wednesday, April 6. Kent State’s own Michael Loderstedt, professor of art, is the selected artist who designed this year’s Cleve...

5X���� has earned its eighth consecutive recognition from Tree Campus USA, a national program created in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and for engaging staff and students in conservation goals. Heather White, grounds manager at University Facilities Management at Kent State, says the grounds department is proud of the continued recognition, as it shows the university’s dedication to the community’s green infrastructure. “We recognize that we are one of the first impressions of campus for prospective p...

5X����’s College of Arts and Sciences is the intellectual heart of 5X����. Its 16 academic departments encompass the humanities, social sciences, natural and mathematical sciences.     ...

Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, and Julaine Clunis, student  in the School of Library and Information Science, (with Vladimir Alexiev) presented “Innovative Use of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) that are Published as Linked Open Data (LOD)” at the first Asian Networked Knowledge Systems Workshop. The workshop took place during the 2015 Asian Digital Library conference in December 2015 in Seoul, South Korea. ...

Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, and Alexander Mawyer, University of Hawaii at Manoa, authored “Response to Nash on Creole Spatiality and Pitcairn Island” in Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Edward Lowe (Ed.), Vol.  44, Issue 1, (2016): 9-10. ...

The second edition of a book co-authored by Marcia Lei Zeng, School of Library and Information Science, and Jian Qin, titled Metadata, has been released by ALA Neal Schuman Publishers. The first edition was published in 2008. It has been called the definitive text on metadata. ...

Familiar Face Katie Schilling Assistant Director Intercollegiate Athletics Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Serves as compliance officer, liaison of compliance and eligibility and faculty advisor for the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: January 2010 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Graduate assistant with Kent State’s Intercollegiate Athletics’ compliance department  LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I love how much Kent State is changing and, how much school spirit is being built up.   A...

New Face Lance Grahn Dean and Administrative Officer 5X���� at Trumbull JOB DESCRIPTION: The dean and chief administrative officer provides overall leadership and direction for all aspects of campus administration and operation of an open-admission campus of about 2,500 students, more than 100 full- and part-time faculty, 50 administrative and support staff and a $17 million dollar annual operating budget. Kent State Trumbull students can choose from more than 30 associate or bachelor's degree programs or start coursework toward the more than 280 academic progr...