A 5XÉçÇø student’s interpretive sign project is helping the university become more environmentally friendly. Krisztina Janossy, who graduated this past December, started her interpretive design project for sustainable features on the Kent Campus. Janossy created signs at three sites located behind Henderson Hall and the Liquid Crystal Institute®: the butterfly garden, peatland wetland and permeable pavement. Janossy worked in the Office of Environmental Health and Safety at Kent State as an environmental outreach coordinator. She graduated with a degree in communication studie...
5XÉçÇø’s Office of the University Architect and University Facilities Management, both part of the Division of Business and Finance, collaborated in an effort to unearth several large trees on Summit Street and relocate them outside the Center for the Performing Arts on Main Street. The trees, which are 5-12 inch caliper in diameter and up to 20 feet tall, were transplanted to prepare for road expansions and other construction on Summit Street as part of the Summit Street Improvement Project. While it may be easier to cut a tree down than relocate it, Heather White, grounds ma...
College of Communication & Information
Three communication studies graduate students recently returned from Lisbon, Portugal after studying abroad in the School of Communication Studies’ Global Scholar Exchange program during the Fall of 2015. Samyak Moktan, a second-year global communication studies graduate student, came to 5XÉçÇø in 2014 from Kathmandu, Nepal after obtaining her undergraduate degree in mass communication and journalism from Purbanchal University in Nepal. She is currently a teaching assistant for the School of Communication Studies and decided to travel to Lisbon to gain a more global p...
You can track the progress of the science renovations including construction of the new Integrated Sciences Building and the renovation of Cunningham. ...
Work in Progress: Continuing the installation of the temporary duct and assembly of new AHU1 in the East side mechanical room. Stripped topsoil from addition footprint. Phoenix air valve replacement in the Annex research labs continues per schedule. Continue coordination of the west mechanical room abatement and planning for demolition of AHU 3. Excavated existing 10" water main that will be relocated for addition. Fabricating duct for cross connect of AHU 2 & AHU 3. Completed demolition of basement electrical room. Looking ahead for next week: Contin...
Work in Progress: Floor electrical boxes in room 101 & 104 are complete. Plumbing under slab is complete in 101 & 104. The sanitary tie-in and under slab rough-in is complete and inspected for the new restrooms in addition. Electrical raceways have been installed in crawlspace. Completed miscellaneous demolition the 2nd floor. Abatement work is substantially complete in the building. Looking ahead: CMU walls to begin student machine shop & receiving on 2/5. Complete demolition on the second floor. Electrical ro...
Project Advancing Wellness and Resilience Education (AWARE) Kent, a new three-year program at 5XÉçÇø, is offering a Mental Health First Aid course to 5XÉçÇø students, faculty, and staff. The course is an evidence-based training that teaches people to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders. The eight-hour course is free, and participants earn 1500 FLASHperks (a rewards program that offers prizes) for completing the course. The date of the first course will be announced soon. For more information or to be ...
Lala Hajibayova, School of Library and Information Science, presented "Participatory Knowledge Representation and Organization Systems" at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) SIG/CR Workshop, Conceptual Crowbars and Classification at the Crossroads: The Impact and Future of Classification Research in St. Louis, Missouri, in November 2015. ...
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Susanna Fein, Department of English, edited The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: York Medieval Press/Boydell and Brewwer, (2016), xi, 253 pp. ...