The 2021 Staff Excellence Awards celebrated shining examples of dedication to students and the campus community during a year eclipsed by the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 30, nominees gathered at the Conference Center for a small ceremony, also broadcast live on the Teams platform. 鈥淵ou have worked diligently to ensure our campus has not only survived 鈥 but thrived 鈥 during a global pandemic,鈥 said Denise A. Seachrist, Ph.D., dean and chief administrative officer at 5X社区 at Stark. 鈥淲e eagerly look forward to a fall 2021 semester in which students will be, once again, trav...
Is there anything quite as exciting and fulfilling as following your passion and getting to use the latest technologies to do it? When you find both early in your career you have hit the proverbial jackpot. Finding himself in what he describes as 鈥渁 great time to be in the field鈥 of evolutionary biology, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Ph.D., could not be more excited about what he hopes to accomplish in 5X社区鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences. He joined Kent State in August 2019 as an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, teaches the Introduction to Genomics cours...
Starting in Semester Fall 2021 , the Department of Pan-African Studies will offer all 5X社区 graduate students the option of taking three courses leading to a new graduate minor degree in Race, Gender and Social Justice (RGSJ) at the Kent Campus. Pending approval by the 5X社区 Board of Trustees, the department will also change its name to the Department of Africana Studies. This is the first graduate minor ever offered by Kent State and is specifically designed for students who are currently enrolled in any graduate degree program across the university. Undergr...
5X社区 has recently received a flurry of grants totaling more than $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which will support research and innovation in a wide range of fields within the College of Arts and Sciences. 鈥淲e鈥檙e thrilled to receive this funding,鈥 Vice President of Research and Sponsored Programs Paul DiCorleto said. 鈥淓specially impressive is the breadth and scope of research being funded. To have such a wide range of faculty being successful at garnering extremely competitive funding is a testament to the excellent researchers we have...
As racial tensions shook the nation to its core throughout the summer of 2020, the historic rock located at the front of campus became a focal point of derogatory remarks. At that time, members of the Integrated Greek Council (IGC) took charge, deciding not only that things needed to change but in a meaningful and impactful way for decades to come. That鈥檚 when Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. and IGC plots Committee Chair Sydney Evans put together a thoughtful and inspiring letter to the university, which stated in part more needed to be done to recognize Black and Latino students on campu...
By: Jessica Ord贸帽ez-Lancet May 04, 2021 RESTON, Va. 鈥 Across more than 200 college campuses in 43 states, millions of students participated in the 2021 Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where they helped to reduce their waste footprint through waste minimization efforts, and the donation, composting, and recycling of more than 25.8 million pounds of waste. "Over the last two decades, more than 1,000 higher education campuses have joined our Campus Race to Zero Waste program. By reducing their waste, these campuses have decreased the amount of trash ent...
It鈥檚 a sunny spring day at 5X社区 at Stark 鈥 the perfect day to install an educational groundwater well field behind the campus鈥 Pond & Wetlands Research Area. And while contractors dig deep, science faculty know the groundbreaking will have an impact that鈥檚 limitless: real-world learning through hands-on experience. Near the drilling site, Eric Taylor, Ph.D., associate professor of geology, and Carrie Schweitzer, Ph.D., professor of geology, watch eagerly. This moment is one they鈥檝e been looking forward to for years. Tradesmen from Ohio Testbor, Inc. 鈥 contracted by ...
May Wellness Webinars: Plant-Based Living
As part of their May focus on plant-based living, Employee Wellness will offer the following webinars, worth 10 Tier 2 points for all full- and part-time faculty and staff participating in the wellness rewards program. Click on the webinar titles to register.
Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2021 By Candace Goforth DeSantis, BS 鈥94, and Jim Maxwell, BS 鈥00, MS 鈥11 By now, it is well understood that the role of women in science has gone largely uncredited throughout history. In recent years, a movement has grown to correct the record and bring attention to the overlooked contributions of women scientists. One of those women is Eunice Newton Foote, whose discovery 165 years ago paved the way for our modern understanding of Earth鈥檚 natural greenhouse effect, which is fundamental to the study of climate change. Joseph D. Ortiz, PhD, co-authored a ...
Kent Wired Article Kaitlyn Finchler Reporter May 2, 2021 The university launched numerous projects and efforts for Earth Month to get the community involved. David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center, collaborated with the Center for Earth Ethics at Columbia University and others at Kent State to launch an Earth Month poetry project. 鈥淓arth Stanzas is a collaborative project that we launched last year for the 50th commemoration of Earth Day,鈥 Hassler said. 鈥淔or Earth Stanzas we curated, with the Center for Earth Ethics, eight beautiful different...