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International Contemporary Ensemble to Perform Free New Music Concert at Kent State

Schroth Guest Artist Series brings highly acclaimed New York Ensemble to campus

Thirteen musicians from the nationally acclaimed new
music ensemble known as ICE will perform a free concert
at Kent State University on Friday, Nov. 13.

Kent State University is proud to present the International Contemporary Ensemble, also known as ICE, at the Kent Campus on Friday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Kent State’s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music’s Ludwig Recital Hall. The concert, sponsored by the Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series, is free and open to the public. Tickets are required and seating is limited. To make reservations, call the Performing Arts Box Office at 330-672-ARTS (2787).

The International Contemporary Ensemble is a contemporary classical music ensemble based in New York City and Chicago. The group performs a diverse and extensive array of chamber, electro-acoustic, improvisatory and multimedia works. The concert at Kent State will showcase 13 members performing a repertoire, featuring such composers as Karastoyanova-Hermentin, Anthony Cheung, Sofia Gubaidulina and Marcos Balter. The program will culminate with a piece titled The Well and the Gentle by Pauline Oliveros, and will feature 25 Kent State students who compose the New Music Ensemble performing alongside the International Contemporary Ensemble musicians.

“We are excited to have the International Contemporary Ensemble, one of the world’s preeminent performing groups for contemporary music, come to Kent State,” says Ralph Lorenz, acting director of the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music. “It will be an amazing opportunity for our many students interested in performing new music to work with ICE in master classes, coaching sessions and perform in the concert.”

A complimentary dessert reception, which is open to everyone, will immediately follow in the lobby of the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music.

Ludwig Recital Hall is located in the Center for the Performing Arts, 1325 Theatre Drive on the Kent Campus. Parking is free.

For more information, visit www.kent.edu/artscollege.

About the Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series

The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series has presented guest artists respected in the field of theatre, dance, visual arts, music and architecture. Now in its 14th year, the Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series has brought such noted artists as Tony award-winners Stephen Schwartz, composer of Wicked, Into the Woods and more; Next to Normal actress Alice Ripley; Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet; postmodern minimalist artist Richard Tuttle; artists and fashion designers Ruben and Isabel Toledo; internationally acclaimed dance company Ballet Florida; actor, dancer and arts advocate Ben Vereen; and the Limon Dance Group, just to name a few.

The Schroth series was established in 2001 by Cecile Draime and her late husband, Max, of Warren, Ohio, to honor their dear friend, Thomas Schroth (1922-1997). A noted regional architect, Schroth designed the Butler Institute of Art’s Trumbull Museum in Howland, as well as numerous other award-winning projects. Schroth spent his life in Niles, Ohio, as a prominent architect and inveterate collaborator in the artistic life of the Mahoning Valley and Northeast Ohio. A world traveler, he saw human creativity as a window-framing human experience. The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series brings diverse views through that window to the Kent Campus and community. The events are always free and open to the public.

Experience Kent State's Inaugural Three Minute Thesis Competition

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) finals will take place on
Friday, Oct. 30, from noon-2 p.m. in the Kent Student
Center Kiva. The 3MT is a research competition that gives
graduate students just three minutes and one PowerPoint
slide as tools to explain their research in a clear, engaging
and concise manner.

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) finals are Friday, Oct. 30, from noon-2 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. The 3MT is a research competition that is coming to Kent State University for the first time and is offered at more than 170 universities. The 3MT gives graduate students just three minutes and one PowerPoint slide as tools to explain their research in a clear, engaging and concise manner. The exercise allows graduate students the opportunity to share their research with an interdisciplinary audience, consolidate their ideas and crystalize their research discoveries.

More than 60 graduate students participated in the 3MT preliminary rounds last week, and the top presenters from each preliminary round are competing in the finals. Click here for a full list of finalists participating on Friday.

The top four presenters will be awarded cash prizes of up to $500, and audience members will have the opportunity to text their vote for their favorite presentation to determine the $200 People's Choice Award.

All are invited to attend the 3MT Finals, and refreshments will be served. It will be a great opportunity to view research presentations from many outstanding Kent State graduate students in an educational and entertaining environment.

If you have questions, contact Kyle Reynolds, assistant director of student services in Kent State’s Division of Graduate Studies, at kreynol3@kent.edu.

For more information about the Three Minute Thesis, visit www.kent.edu/graduatestudies/3mt.

Kent State’s School of Communication Studies to Host Colloquium on Organizing Against the Ebola Crisis in Liberia

Joelle Cruz, assistant professor in Kent
State's School of Communication Studies,
will speak on organizing against the Ebola
crisis in Liberia on Nov. 6 in Taylor Hall,
Room 146.

Kent State University’s School of Communication Studies Colloquium Series continues with a presentation by Joelle Cruz, assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies, on Friday, Nov. 6, at 4 p.m. in Taylor Hall, Room 146 on the Kent Campus. Cruz will speak on the topic “Resilience at the Grassroots: Organizing Against the Ebola Crisis in Liberia” as part of the fall colloquium series. This presentation will provide an opportunity to learn more about crisis communication and how to be creative and resourceful when there is a lack of resources.

Cruz traveled to Liberia this past summer to study how one community served as a model in fighting Ebola.

“Students will learn how communication can help us resolve crisis in a context with no resources,” Cruz says. “The media represented communities as having no infrastructure, no doctors or nurses, everyone’s dying – there was a bias.”

The research examines how a community in Liberia served as a model taskforce for other communities in fighting Ebola. This Liberia community was so efficient in using its community resources that it had no deaths from Ebola. Its taskforce provided training in other communities so their success could be replicated.

The School of Communication Studies’ Colloquium Series provides an opportunity for faculty and graduate students to foster intellectual and collaborative discussions and to stay informed about current research efforts. All faculty and graduate students are invited to attend at no cost. Individuals unable to attend the presentation in-person can watch via live stream at http://bit.ly/1jI6cL0.

Additional details about the final fall colloquium, scheduled for Friday, Dec. 4, will be available at www.kent.edu/comm at a later date. For questions or consideration for a future colloquium, contact Suzy D’Enbeau at sdenbeau@kent.edu.

Kent State Hosts 2015 Graduate and Professional School Fair On Oct. 28

A student talks to a graduate school representative at
Kent State University's first Graduate and Professional
School Fair. This year's fair will take place on Oct. 28
from noon to 3 p.m. on the first floor of the University
Library on the Kent Campus.

Kent State University will host its second Graduate and Professional School Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 28, featuring representatives from Kent State and more than 40 other graduate and professional schools from across the country. The fair, which will take place from noon to 3 p.m. on the first floor of the University Library on the Kent Campus, is free and open to anyone interested in learning more about graduate education. Students from all majors are encouraged to attend, and no pre-registration is required.

The fair offers a one-stop opportunity for attendees and prospective graduate students to meet with graduate faculty and research a variety of graduate programs. Attendees will learn firsthand about admission requirements and application periods, and have the opportunity to collect relevant materials to help them further evaluate and review graduate programs of interest to them.

A list of participating schools is available here. Refreshments will be served at the fair and attendees will have the chance to win over $150 in gift cards.

For more information about Kent State’s 2015 Graduate and Professional School Fair, visit www.kent.edu/graduatestudies/graduate-school-fair.

For more information about Kent State’s Division of Graduate Studies, visit www.kent.edu/graduatestudies.

MAMMA MIA! Returns to Kent State Tuscarawas Stage

MAMMA MIA!, the smash hit musical based on the songs
of ABBA, returns to the Performing Arts Center at Kent
State University at Tuscarawas on Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m.

Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’ MAMMA MIA!, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, returns to the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University at Tuscarawas on Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. The show is co-sponsored by Mix 94.1 Radio and the Tuscarawas County Community Foundation.

MAMMA MIA! is one of the most successful musicals of all time, the eighth longest-running show in Broadway history and one of only five current musicals to have run for more than 10 years on Broadway. The West End production is now in its 17th year. The international tour has visited more than 81 cities in 37 countries.

Inspired by the storytelling magic of ABBA’s songs from “Dancing Queen” and “S.O.S.” to “Money, Money, Money” and “Take a Chance on Me,” MAMMA MIA! is a celebration of mothers and daughters, old friends and new family found.

Tickets for MAMMA MIA! range in price from $55 to $72 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center Box Office, online at www.kent.edu/tusc/pac or by calling 330-308-6400. The box office is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free parking is available for all shows.

MAMMA MIA! is produced by Work Light Productions, whose other touring productions include Rent 20th Anniversary Tour, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Vocalosity and Crazy For You.

The original production of MAMMA MIA! was produced by Judy Craymer, Richard East and Ulvaeus for Littlestar in association with Universal. The creative team responsible for bringing MAMMA MIA! to theatrical life includes some of the most gifted and celebrated talents of musical theatre and opera. With music and lyrics by Andersson and Ulvaeus, MAMMA MIA! is written by Catherine Johnson and directed by Phyllida Lloyd. MAMMA MIA! has choreography by Anthony Van Laast, production design by Mark Thompson, lighting design by Howard Harrison, sound design by Andrew Bruce and Bobby Aitken, and musical supervision, additional material and arrangements by Martin Koch.

For information about MAMMA MIA!, visit www.Mamma-Mia.com.

Main Street Kent Presents Annual Family-Friendly Halloween Event

On Friday, Oct. 30, families and friends are invited to downtown Kent to celebrate a Family-Friendly Halloween from 5-7 p.m. at the Hometown Bank Plaza and surrounding local businesses. The Kent Jaycees will again host the “haunted train car” on Franklin Avenue, and area businesses will be handing out Halloween treats. A list of trick-or-treat locations will be handed out at the Hometown Bank Plaza, where attendees can partake in Halloween-themed crafts and games during the event. A costume contest will take place at 7 p.m., and “Mr. Black Squirrel” will be on site for fun photo opportunities, so stop by to see what his costume is this year.

Participating businesses are located on Main Street, Franklin Avenue, Water Street, Erie Street and Depeyster Street in the downtown district. Locations for this year’s Family-Friendly Halloween include 157 Lounge, 4Cats Art Studio, AT&T, Baked in the Village Café, Belleria Pizza & Italian Restaurant, blue / A Goodwill Boutique, Buffalo Wild Wings, Carnaby Street Style, Dave’s Cosmic Subs, Downtown Gallery, Dragonfly, Empire, FJKluth Art Gallery, Franklin School of Dance, Franklin Square Deli, Fresco, Gracylane, Kent Central Gateway Footwear, Kent Cheesemonger, Kent Jaycees, Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center, McKay Bricker Framing and Black Squirrel Gifts, Newdle Bar, Off the Wagon, One Love Yoga Boutique, Pita Pit, Popped!, Rise & Shine Café, RUSH by Dino Palmieri, Secret Cellar, Scribbles Coffee, Taco Tonto’s, the Local Public House, Troy Grille, Twisted Meltz, UniversiTees, Wild Earth Outfitters and Zephyr Pub. Others may join the fun between now and the event, too.

For more information, visit www.mainstreetkent.org/family-friendly-halloween, check out the event page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/events/1666485706927750/ or call 330-677-8000.