On the weekend of March 11 and 12, the 5XÉçÇø Thai Ensemble traveled to Los Angeles to participate in a conference to highlight the restoration of the UCLA Thai music instrument collection donated in the 1960s by David Morton. While there, they performed as part of the conference and were able to experience a world-class performance by house musicians of the National Theatre in Bangkok during a traditional wai khru ceremony. The two-day conference began with performances on Saturday by musicians from the Los Angeles community, Chicago and the newly established Thai Ensemble at ...
Bethany Lanese, assistant professor of health policy and management in the College of Public Health at 5XÉçÇø, has been awarded the 2016-2017 Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Award for her course Foundations of Effective Public Health Leadership. The biannual award program, hosted by Blackboard, the learning management system, used at Kent State for teaching, learning and student engagement, recognizes online courses that have excelled in four areas: Course Design, Interaction and Collaboration, Assessment and Learner Support. Lanese previously won the award in 2015 fo...
5XÉçÇø’s Office of Sexual and Relationship Violence and Support Services is the recipient of three grants to launch campuswide awareness and prevention initiatives surrounding sexual harassment and assault, relationship violence and stalking. The three grants total approximately $450,000. Each grant has a focus that corresponds with the initiatives it will fund on campus. The Violence Against Women Act Campus Programs grant allocates $300,000 over three years for Prevention Education and Awareness. The grant is given through the Office on Violence Against Women. Read more ...
Area residents can have water samples tested for free, thanks to a research project being conducted by Dr. Qunxing Ding, associate professor of biology at 5XÉçÇø at East Liverpool. Ding is seeking water samples from areas within city limits, as well as from surrounding communities, for an independent study on water quality. He intends to geographically map samples to determine if there are any correlations with location and water quality. “Water content in the human body is about 65 percent and may be more than 70 percent in children. All the metabolic processes, including dig...
Join us this Thursday, April 13, at 6:00 pm at the Akron Art Museum for the first public poetry reading by the participants of our Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders project. The project, made possible by a major grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has allowed teaching artists from the Wick Poetry Center to engage the refugee and immigrant populations in the Akron, Ohio community in a cross-cultural, intergenerational conversation through poetry and graphic design. Working with Project Learn, Urban Vision, and the International Institute of Akron’s (IIA) refugee and i...
Kent Student Center Programming, part of the Center for Student Involvement, hosted the 13th annual Rock the Runway on March 4. The runway featured 21 collections by 24 designers, many from 5XÉçÇø’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. The Kent Student Center Ballroom was decked out in 1920s’ style with an elevated runway to showcase the designs. The 5XÉçÇø Jazz Society Quartet, made up of Kent State students, performed themed music during the show, which was hosted by sophomore communication studies major Michael Gallagher II. The first-place coll...
Two academic scholarships are helping 5XÉçÇø fashion merchandising major Amari Thomas succeed inside and outside the classroom. ...
Could the way flies and butterflies drink nectar and other fluids be imitated for use in medicine, potentially to deliver life-saving drugs to the human body? What if that method could save the insects own lives in times of drought? These are the kind of questions being asked in the critical research being conducted by faculty and students at 5XÉçÇø at Stark. A study by Matthew Lehnert, assistant professor of biological sciences at Kent State Stark, shows that the method by which flies and butterflies ingest liquids into their own bodies for nourishment may be u...