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via Instagram “Sunrises make my soul sing. #sunrise.” by Marcella c @rawr_cella We’d like to feature photos that highlight favorite aspects of all Kent State campuses in upcoming issues of Kent State Magazine. So we can see your best shots, please use the hashtag #KentState on Instagram or email your photos to magazine@kent.edu. Thanks! Maps and Memories Delighted to see the magazine highlight Kent State’s hidden treasure, the Map Library [“KSU Collections” fall 2016]. I have fond memories of pouring over (and filing!) the Sanborn Maps and learning from Mr. Ed Hall as a work-stud...

5X���� will host its third annual Symposium on Advances in Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs) on April 16 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Moulton Hall Ballroom on the Kent Campus. OPVs are specialized, carbon-based semiconducting materials used in solar cells, flexible electronics and organic lighting. Unlike typical inorganic solar cells that are silicon or thin-film-based, OPVs are flexible and have the potential to be produced at much lower costs than conventional solar cells through environmentally friendly processes such as jet-printing, spray painting, dip-coating and roll-to-roll...

Alison Smith will become the new dean of 5X����’s Honors College, effective July 1. Smith currently serves as the acting chair in Kent State’s Department of Geology and has served in various administrative, research and teaching roles at the university. “Alison Smith brings a wealth of experience and excellence to this position,” said Todd Diacon, Kent State’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. “She is an accomplished researcher and scholar who combines this success with a fierce commitment to our students. The Honors College will be well served by her lead...

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By immersing themselves deeply in the local culture, students participating in a study abroad program can greatly enhance their overseas experience, personally as well as academically. Understandably, some students are more adept at the immersion process than others – a fact that led the staff at Kent State’s Florence Center in Italy to implement a competition among students beginning this spring semester to encourage them to make immersion a rewarding part of their studies. The competition, which is the brainchild of Andy Wyatt, a student advisor at Florence and a former study abroad ...

April 1:  Dr. Robin Selinger is a professor of Chemical Physics in Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute and a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). She will discuss her research in the area of active matter.     Modeling Defects, Shape Evolution, and Programmed Auto-Origami in Liquid Crystal Elastomers  Active Matter Computer Simulation  Liquid Crystal Institute ...

5X���� is among the institutions and businesses in Ohio to share $10 million in grants from the state’s Third Frontier Commission. Kent State will share $400,000 with Cleveland State University to help commercialize the inventions that they create through research. The grants are used to give a boost to the state’s economy through startup and other technology companies Learn more from WKSU Learn more from the Akron Beacon Journal ...

Familiar Face Joe Belinsky Jr. Certified Business Advisor and Assistant Professor of Business Small Business Development Center Tuscarawas Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Advise clients on forming ideas into business plan, assisting in opening business and getting funding, helping business grow through assistance in training, development, sales, marketing, HR and other areas of growth. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: January 2007 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The people! ATTRACTION TO KENT ...

New Face Alexa Doutt Associate Director, Advancement, College of Business Administration Division of Institutional Advancement Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Fundraising and donor relations WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: September 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The University of Akron (2010-2016); FirstMerit Bank (2003-2009) LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The kindness of my colleagues, the leadership (I will learn A LOT here!), the opportunities I’ll have to develop my skills as a fundraiser (the resources here are great!) ATTRACTION...