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Work in Progress Complete drywall work in basement, Human Anatomy Lab. Taping in Human Anatomy Lab is in progress. Continue north side corridor curtain wall installation. Continue cleaning operations. Looking Forward Continue detailing work in basement, Human Anatomy Lab. Continue north side corridor curtain wall installation. Start installation of the interface of the north side curtain wall and the green house glass. ...

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, presented “Richard Wright’s Achievement of Solace, Eastern Poetics, and African Philosophy” at the College Language Association Annual Convention on April 6-9, 2016, in Houston, Texas.  ...

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, organized and chaired a session, “The Chicago Renaissance: The Postmodern and Postcolonial Development,” at the American Literature Association Conference on May 26-29, 2016, in San Francisco, California. ...

Paul Sherman, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, delivered a presentation titled “User Onboarding: Patterns and Anti-Patterns Explored” at the June 23 UXPA Cleveland meeting. ...

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, authored “The Triangular Vision of Richard Wright: The African American Poet’s Achievement of Solace by Means of Eastern Poetics and African Philosophy” in Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad, ed. Virginia Whatley Smith (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016): 198-213. ...

Cindy Kristof, University Libraries, authored “Data and Copyright” in the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 42(6); 2016, 20-22.  ...

Rebecca A. Meehan, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, is lead author of an article titled “Increasing EHR System Usability Through Standards: Conformance Criteria in the HL7 EHR-System Functional Model,” published online in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Aug. 24, 2016). DOI information: 10.1016/j.jbi.2016.08.015. Co-authors include D. Mon, K. Kelly, M. Rocca, G. Dickinson, J. Ritter and C. Johnson. ...

Each year, 5X���� honors full-time, nontenure-track and part-time faculty members who are nominated by their students and peers for being among the most dedicated, highly effective and motivated professors at the university. The Outstanding Teaching Award is presented by the University Teaching Council. The three award recipients will be honored at the University Teaching Council’s Celebrating College Teaching conference luncheon and awards ceremony on Oct. 21. This year’s finalists for the Outstanding Teaching Award are: Valerie Cubon-Bell, Department of Chemistry, Kent ...

Anticipation and excitement consumed every inch of his face. Grinning from ear to ear, Matthew Dougard knew his dream of flying was about to come true. But before he could buckle in for his introductory flight, Dougard had to climb up on a few pillows just to see over the front of the plane. At six years old, Dougard was about to soar higher than his childhood imagination could have ever taken him, thanks to certified flight instructors at 5X���� — Rocco Attardo and Christian Hedrick — who recently graduated from the university’s Aeronautics Program. “Matthew is the happiest, ...

At the 5X���� Board of Trustees meeting held on Sept. 30, 2016, the Board approved the planning and execution of a major comprehensive campaign. This campaign will be the largest in the history of Kent State, with its goals and priorities to be developed and pursued in collaboration with senior leadership, the university community and the 5X���� Foundation. Kent State has embarked on an ambitious agenda for the future, as expressed in A Strategic Roadmap to a Distinctive Kent State approved by the Board in December 2015. The plan through the year 2021 centers a...