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New Face Stacy Lombardi Secretary Academic Affairs Stark Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I provide administrative support to the Fine Arts building faculty. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: March 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Walsh University LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I get to enjoy beautiful artwork and listen to musicians perform every day at work. ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: I was previously a student here. RESIDES IN: Jackson Township, Ohio HOMETOWN: Jackson Township, Ohio EDUCATION: Dua...

The first phase of the Summit Street: Building a Better Way Improvement Project is almost complete. Work began nearly a year ago on the stretch of Summit Street from Fraternity Circle to just past Loop Road, and that section of the road is expected to be finished by mid-November.  The segment of the project being completed this year has many new features to make the road safer for vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists. Some of the notable new features are: A new traffic signal at Loop Road that has more capabilities to move traffic more efficiently A sidewalk from Fraternity Circle to W...

The Kent State of Wellness Steering Committee has awarded 14 minigrants totaling more than $11,000 to departments and student organizations with creative proposals to enhance the culture of health and wellness at 5X����. The program supports Kent State President Beverly Warren’s Strategic Roadmap and Kent State’s initiative to create an environment that enhances the health and wellness of all Kent State students, faculty and staff. The minigrant program was designed to provide opportunities for the Kent State community to propose wellness programs that meet the needs of th...

The Postal Regulatory Commission approved the U.S. Postal Service’s request for a change in postage rates effective Jan. 22, 2017. Some of the highlights include: New first-class stamp rate will increase to 49 cents Free “second ounce” will now be good up to 3.5 ounces for presort letters Basic flats will increase from 94 to 98 cents Standard Mail will now be called Marketing Mail (both commercial and nonprofit) Here is a sampling of what to expect: 2017 Price Change Percentage By Mail Class Class Percent Change Firs...

This September, the 5X���� Women’s Center held a donation drive, called Squirrel Away Food for the Pantry, benefiting the Pantry at the Women’s Center. Now located at the Williamson House, the Women’s Center, along with a number of programs, events and initiatives, contributes to the Kent State community by providing a convenient and caring place to receive food assistance, participate in the SHARE project or simply get needed support. “Often, when a person goes to a food bank, they will need to show proof of need and show their family size, but the Pantry at the Women’s Center...

5X����’s Division of Information Services has introduced Kaltura, a video platform set to replace KSUtube by the end of the year. Kaltura was chosen because of its seamless integration with Blackboard Learn and in-depth features that benefit both faculty and students. Information Services’ staff is facilitating the transition from KSUtube to Kaltura by migrating faculty videos from one platform to the other. More than 30,000 videos have been migrated to Kaltura so far, with many faculty and staff providing positive feedback. “I am very glad Kaltura has been officially adde...

It was a warm fall afternoon and students from the occupational therapy assistant program at Kent State East Liverpool began arriving at the stables in Berlin Center. They were greeted by Dawn Speece, who quickly led five horses from a pasture, into the barn and to their individual stalls. Wasting no time, she instructed the Kent State students to water and feed the horses, then to begin grooming them. While most of the students had little to no experience with horses, they never hesitated and went right to work. The one-on-one time spent with each horse helped establish an important level o...

It could be argued that no science is more valuable to us than that which helps to ensure the survival of our species by solving the problems that challenge it. For many years, two 5X���� researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences have been toiling over this matter, and each has recently received new grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health – collectively totaling more than $857,990 – to study reproductive biology, focusing on the cellular mechanisms that regulate the formation and functio...