Facilitator Programs
Nye will deliver a guest lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 28 and give a poetry reading at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 29 co-sponsored by the Honors College and May 4 Visitors Center. Both events will be held in the Kent Student Center Kiva, and are free and open to the public. The two evening events will celebrate a global conversation through poetry, and engage Kent State and Northeast Ohio communities with a unique opportunity for discussion. "Naomi Shihab Nye is truly a poet of the world, giving voice to our shared humanity across borders, reminding us that our 鈥榣onging for connection' should be 鈥榯...
5X社区 at East Liverpool formally unveiled the Art Gallery鈥檚 permanent art collection, featuring works by area artists and pieces donated by local residents. These included a signed painting by the late Elsa Rubin, wife of Dr. Herschel Rubin, titled 鈥淔all Festival.鈥 Through the donation of his wife鈥檚 painting and a monetary gift, Dr. Rubin helped establish the Herschel and Elsa Rubin Art Acquisition Fund on the East Liverpool campus to help continue adding works of art to its permanent collection. An art acquisition committee on campus works to coordinate policies and criteri...
5X社区鈥檚 College of Communication and Information and its School of Journalism and Mass Communication will welcome alumna and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz to its faculty this spring. Schultz, who graduated from Kent State with her bachelor鈥檚 degree in journalism in 1979, is a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. 鈥淚t鈥檚 such a fantastic opportunity to bring Connie, one of the best feature and opinion writers in the country, to the College of Communication and Information,鈥 said the college鈥檚 dean, Amy Reynolds, Ph.D. 鈥淚 have followed h...
While Anna Detoro may have roots in Poland, Ohio, she is branching out and learning more about her chosen profession in the green industry. Detoro is a junior at the Kent State Salem Campus, working on her bachelors of science degree in applied horticulture, with a concentration in urban forestry. Since last April, her studies have placed her in the soil lab at the Davey Institute of the Davey Tree Expert Co. in Kent. As part of her cooperative work experience requirement to earn her degree, Detoro went to work at the Davey Institute, upon the recommendation of Chris Carlson, assoc...