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2013 3rd Quarter News Releases

Kent State Selected Again to Host Fulbright Visiting Scholars This Summer Kent State University will host scholars from Iraq and Libya for 10 weeks this summer as part of the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program. The prestigious program is sponsored by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars and supported by the U.S. Department of State’s Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau.
- Posted Jul. 1, 2013
Kent State Hosts Statewide Conference for Student-Veterans and College Administrators Kent State University will host the third annual Serving Those Who Serve conference on Thursday, July 11, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Kent, Ohio. The conference brings together student-veterans and administrators from colleges and universities in Ohio and neighboring states to discuss the needs of veterans on their campuses.
- Posted Jul. 1, 2013
Porthouse Theatre Summer Continues 2013 Season With “Working,” July 4-20 Porthouse Theatre, Kent State University’s outdoor, summer theater on the grounds of Blossom Music Center, continues its 2013 season with “Working.” The show will run July 4-20. Call 330-672-3884 for ticket information.
- Posted Jul. 2, 2013
Dance Program Alumna is New Kent State Dance Team Coach Kent State University alumna Jordan Petersen-Fitts is the university’s new Dance Team coach.
- Posted Jul. 5, 2013
Kent State Hosts Aviation Camp for Female High School Students, July 18-20 Female high school students and their mothers will learn about aviation and other science-related fields at a special overnight aviation camp held at Kent State University. The university’s College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology is holding its fifth Nikki Kukwa Memorial Aviation Camp from Thursday, July 18, through Saturday¸ July 20.
- Posted Jul. 8, 2013
Kent State Accounting Student Wins Ohio CPA 2013 Scholarship Day Award Kent State University senior accounting major Lauren Romick of Stow, Ohio, received a $3,000 first-place honor as the 2013 Scholarship Day award recipient from the Ohio Society of CPAs (OSCPA).
- Posted Jul. 9, 2013
Glued to Your Cell Phone? Research Suggests It May Reduce Your Physical Activity and Fitness oday’s smartphones allow for increased opportunities for activities traditionally defined as sedentary behaviors, such as surfing the internet, emailing and playing video games. However, researchers Jacob Barkley and Andrew Lepp, faculty members in the College of Education, Health and Human Services at Kent State University, linked high cell phone use to poor fitness in college students.
- Posted Jul. 10, 2013
Kent State College of Nursing Professor to be Inducted Into the American Academy of Nursing Margaret O’Bryan Doheny, professor emeritus who was on the Kent State University College of Nursing faculty for 35 years, will be inducted into the American Academy of Nursing on Oct. 19, in Washington, D.C.
- Posted Jul. 15, 2013
Kent State ’Round Town Music Festival Expands Musical Boundaries Sept. 19-22 WKSU and Kent State University present the dynamic Kent State ’Round Town Music Festival on Sept. 19 through 22 when a regional tradition adopts a fresh attitude and brings more live music to the city of Kent and Kent State. As both city and campus burst out of their shells with new businesses and a soon-to-be-open connecting esplanade, the former Kent State Folk Festival is expanding by welcoming even more artists and music fans to the party.
- Posted Jul. 15, 2013
Kent/Blossom Music Festival Presents Cleveland Orchestra Members Amy Lee, Alicia Koelz, Joanna Zakany and Tanya Ell The Kent/Blossom Music Festival 2013 Faculty Concert Series continues with the OMNI String Quartet on Tuesday, July 23, in Ludwig Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. located in the Music and Speech Building. Call 330-672-0398 to purchase tickets
- Posted Jul. 17, 2013
Kent State Student Designers Combat Malaria With Award-Winning Work Students in the Master of Fine Arts program in the School of Visual Communication Design at Kent State University earned Student Notable Honoree status, placing them in the top six of all national entries, in the Core77 2013 Design Awards for their Healthcare Visuals Kibera project. This is the second award the team has earned last month, with Metropolis magazine naming it runner-up in its Next Generation Design Competition.
- Posted Jul. 18, 2013
Porthouse Theatre Closes Summer Season With “Fiddler on the Roof,” July 25-Aug. 11 Porthouse Theatre, Kent State University’s outdoor summer theater on the grounds of Blossom Music Center, will close its 2013 season with “Fiddler on the Roof,” running July 25 through Aug. 11. Eric van Baars, assistant artistic director for Porthouse Theatre, directs this production, and John Crawford, dean of the College of the Arts at Kent State, provides the choreography. Call 330-672-3884 for tickets.
- Posted Jul. 18, 2013
MEDIA ADVISORY: Kent State Student's Actions to Be Recognized By Kent State Police Department and Ohio Homeland Security The chief of police at Kent State University and a supervisor from Ohio Homeland Security will recognize Kent State student Zoë Burch of Pittsburgh on Monday, July 22, for her quick actions to notify authorities when she saw suspicious activity on the Internet.
- Posted Jul. 19, 2013
Susan Stocker Named Interim Dean of Kent State’s College of Nursing Kent State University has named Susan Stocker, Ph.D., interim dean of the College of Nursing. Stocker currently serves as dean of Kent State University at Ashtabula.
- Posted Jul. 19, 2013
Governor Appoints Student to Kent State Board of Trustees Monique Menefee of Cleveland, Ohio, has been appointed by Gov. John Kasich to serve as a student member of the Kent State University Board of Trustees. Her term began on July 19, 2013, and ends May 16, 2015.
- Posted Jul. 19, 2013
Kent State Recognized as a “Great College to Work For” Kent State University is being recognized again as one of the nation’s best. Kent State has been selected as one of this year’s “Great Colleges to Work For” by The Chronicle of Higher Education, the nation’s number one source of news, information and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
- Posted Jul. 22, 2013
WKSU Feeds Your Curiosity With Re-Structured Lineup WKSU (89.7 FM) is reinforcing the strength of its award-winning newsroom by expanding news and information programming in its daily schedule beginning Aug. 5. The station will feed listeners’ curiosity with a mix of trusted news magazines and new programs, including several which previously have only been heard in Northeast Ohio on WKSU’s HD-4 channel.

- Posted Jul. 22, 2013
Kent State Student’s Actions Help Prevent Potential Violent Act at Pennsylvania School Take the Internet seriously. As crazy as that sounds, if a threat is made and feels real, report it. That’s the advice Kent State University student Zoë Burch offers as she reflects on her experience.
- Posted Jul. 22, 2013
Goodyear Endows Two Business Scholarships at Kent State University Kent State University’s College of Business Administration announced today that two endowed scholarship funds have been established by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in honor of its retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Charles J. Pilliod.
- Posted Jul. 23, 2013
Kent State's School of Art Galleries and Kent Historical Society Present the Work of Local Photographer Richard Sweet Kent State University's School of Art and the Kent Historical Society are collaborating to present three exhibitions of the work and art of Richard Sweet, a photographer for The Record-Courier in Portage County, Ohio, for more than 40 years. An Art Walk and receptions will be held at the Kent State School of Art Gallery, the Downtown Gallery and the Kent Historical Society on July 25 from 5-7 p.m.
- Posted Jul. 23, 2013
Kent State Atmospheric Research Group Awarded $330,000 NSF Grant The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year, $330,000 National Science Foundation grant to Kent State University’s Atmospheric Research Group for its project titled “Measurements of Amines during the Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS) Field Campaign.” The project will be led by Shanhu Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental health sciences in Kent State’s College of Public Health.
- Posted Jul. 24, 2013
Ohio Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts Award Grants to Wick Poetry Center Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center has been awarded two grants from the Ohio Arts Council and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Posted Jul. 26, 2013
Kent State Professor to Receive American Psychological Association Award Kent State University Professor of Psychology Mary Ann Parris Stephens, Ph.D., has been selected to receive the 2013 Developmental Health Award by the Aging and Health Committee of the American Psychological Association.
- Posted Jul. 30, 2013
Eells Gallery at Blossom to Feature Kent State Faculty Michael Loderstedt and Lori Kella The Kent State University School of Art Galleries will present work by Kent State University School of Art faculty members Michael Loderstedt and Lori Kella at the Eells Gallery on the grounds of the Blossom Music Center on Aug. 3-Sept. 1. The Eells Gallery is open two hours prior to and through the intermission of every Cleveland Orchestra performance.
- Posted Jul. 31, 2013
Kent State Promotes Two Officials in the Center for Corporate and Professional Development Kent State University has announced the promotion of two officials in its Center for Corporate and Professional Development. Both will have expanded responsibility for enhancing and expanding relationships with major employers in the state and beyond, and to strategically connect corporations and business enterprises with Kent State’s many assets.
- Posted Aug. 1, 2013
Kent State’s Summer Commencement Ceremonies Occur Aug. 17 Kent State University will hold its summer commencement ceremonies at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). Kent State will confer 1,593 degrees, including 836 bachelor’s degrees, 455 master’s degrees, 83 doctoral degrees, 198 associate degrees and 21 educational specialist degrees.
- Posted Aug. 7, 2013
Kent State Forms Presidential Search Committee Kent State University has formed a search committee to recruit its 12th president, who will succeed retiring President Lester A. Lefton. In April, Dr. Lefton announced his retirement from the presidency of Ohio’s second largest public university, effective July 1, 2014. He has served as Kent State’s chief executive officer since July 1, 2006.
- Posted Aug. 8, 2013
Kent State Awarded Two Grants from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Kent State University has been awarded two grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. One grant, for research on physical activity levels and obesity, totaled $384,192, and the second grant, for stress-induced noradrenergic modulation of neuroinflammation research, totaled $441,600. The grants were part of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Academic Research Enhancement Awards.

- Posted Aug. 8, 2013
University Services Ready for Students this Fall As Kent State welcomes new and returning students, the Opening of School Master Schedule of University Services is a useful tool for departments, parents and students alike. This schedule lists the days and hours various university service areas are open from the week before school starts through the first week of classes, Sunday, Aug. 18 through Friday, Aug. 30.

- Posted Aug. 14, 2013
Kent State University Awarded Grant for Trauma Research Kent State University has been awarded a grant for $81,445 from the Ohio Department of Public Safety for research on the impact of traumatic injury on child patients and their families.
- Posted Aug. 15, 2013
Kent State Conference Tackles Knowledge Economy Issues Kent State University will host more than 200 delegates representing the business community, technology sector, academia, nonprofit, civic and government organizations, and the broader workforce to consider how the university’s newly created Knowledge Sciences Center can help organizations meet the challenges of the 21st-century knowledge economy.
- Posted Aug. 21, 2013
Governor Names Virginia Albanese to Kent State Board of Trustees Gov. John Kasich has named Virginia Albanese of Akron, Ohio, to serve on the Kent State University Board of Trustees. Her appointment is from Aug. 21, 2013, through May 16, 2022.
- Posted Aug. 22, 2013
Kent State Executive Chefs Spice Up Culinary Knowledge With Visit to the Chef’s Garden Kent State University students returning for the Fall 2013 Semester can expect more variety at the university’s dining centers. To expand their knowledge about fruits, herbs and seasonal vegetables, executive chefs from Kent State visited the Culinary Vegetable Institute of the Chef’s Garden in Milan, Ohio, where they had a culinary retreat.
- Posted Aug. 23, 2013
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Comes to Kent State for Presidential Speaker Series Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, will speak at the third Kent State University Presidential Speaker Series on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom.
- Posted Aug. 26, 2013
ADVISORY: Kent State University Board of Trustees Special Committee Meeting Aug. 27
The Kent State University Board of Trustees Finance and Administration Committee will hold a special meeting Tuesday, Aug. 27, to discuss issues related to future construction of a new building for the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology as part of Kent State’s Foundations of Excellence initiative.
- Posted Aug. 26, 2013
Kent State Approves Work to Begin on New Building for the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology At a special meeting held Aug. 27, the Kent State Board of Trustees Finance and Administration Committee authorized a resolution that will permit the issuance of contracts and the beginning of construction on the building’s foundation. The committee action, passed by a unanimous vote, also caps the cost of the project at $17,750,000.
- Posted Aug. 28, 2013
Message from the Presidential Search Committee Our search for Kent State University’s 12th president has taken important next steps, with the online release of a presidential search prospectus and placement of national advertising in major higher education publications. In these materials we believe we’ve captured Kent State’s dynamic progress, unique spirit, and bright future in ways that will be intriguing to highly qualified individuals.
- Posted Aug. 29, 2013
Bowman Breakfast Registration and Information The fall 2013 Bowman Breakfast will take place at Kent State University in the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Wednesday, Oct. 2. Doors open at 7 a.m., breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m. and the program will follow at 8 a.m.
- Posted Sep. 4, 2013
Kent State Student Project on Suicide Prevention Earns Innovator of the Year Award Students from Kent State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and School of Digital Sciences won the Associated Press Media Editors’ (APME) Innovator of the Year for College Students award for a class project that examines issues surrounding college suicide.
- Posted Sep. 5, 2013
Kent State Presents Its 17th Aviation Heritage Fair on Sept. 14 Kent State University’s 17th Aviation Heritage Fair will take place Saturday, Sept. 14, from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Kent State University Airport, located at 4020 Kent Road in Stow, Ohio. The fair, a celebration of aviation education past, present and future, is presented by Kent State’s Aeronautics Program with support from the Cleveland Airport System, Parker Hannifin and Ron Marhofer.
- Posted Sep. 6, 2013
Kent State Research Shows Surprising Shifts in U.S. Knowledge The average college student heading to classes this fall probably can’t tell you much about the game of backgammon or name the comic character who gets energy from spinach.
- Posted Sep. 9, 2013
Distinguished Researcher Owen Lovejoy Joins Kent State’s Presidential Search Committee Kent State University Professor of Anthropology C. Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., has joined the university’s Presidential Search Committee.
- Posted Sep. 9, 2013
Kent State University and Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute Collaborate on Research Funding Kent State University and Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute will co-fund two pilot research projects as part of an initiative to enhance collaborations between the two institutions.
- Posted Sep. 9, 2013
Kent State’s Department of Public Safety Will Initiate Fire/Emergency Evacuation Drills on Sept. 11 On Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 11 a.m., Kent State University's Department of Public Safety will test the emergency notification system on the Kent Campus.
- Posted Sep. 10, 2013
Kent State Sets New Enrollment Record, Welcoming Largest and Highest-Achieving Freshman Class at Its Kent Campus For the Fall 2013 Semester, Kent State University has set a new record, attracting the biggest and highest-achieving freshman class at the Kent Campus in the university’s 103-year history. With the release of the university’s official 15th day census data for the Fall 2013 Semester, Kent State reports the total number of first-time, full-time freshmen enrolled at the Kent Campus is 4,314.
- Posted Sep. 10, 2013
Kent State Ranks as One of the Best National Universities by U.S. News & World Report Kent State University has earned a coveted spot in the first-tier list in the Best National Universities category with its inclusion in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges by U.S. News & World Report. Kent State is the only public university in Northeast Ohio to make the first tier.
- Posted Sep. 11, 2013
ADVISORY: Kent State University Board of Trustees Meeting, Sept. 18 The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, Sept. 18.
- Posted Sep. 11, 2013
National Ethics Conference Focuses on Entertainment Journalism at Ninth Workshop Hosted by Kent State Celebrities are followed by the paparazzi, have minimal privacy and are constantly in the public eye, yet they still want and need fans and attention. That attention, in the form of entertainment media ethics, is the focus of this year’s Poynter Kent State University Media Ethics Workshop, “That’s Entertainment?”
- Posted Sep. 12, 2013
Kent State Researcher to Work on Program to Broaden Participation in Computer Science  L. Gwenn Volkert, associate professor of computer science at Kent State University, has been selected to participate in the second phase of a national effort aimed at increasing and broadening participation in computer science.
- Posted Sep. 12, 2013
Curator and Guardian of the Dead Sea Scroll Collection to Speak at Kent State Adolfo Roitman, Ph.D., curator of the Shrine of the Book, which houses the Dead Sea Scroll collection at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, will speak about “The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Judaism and Christianity” at Kent State University on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva.
- Posted Sep. 13, 2013
Kent State Researcher Helps Calculate the True Cost of Mountaintop Removal Coal To meet current U.S. coal demand through surface mining, an area of the Central Appalachians the size of Washington, D.C., would need to be mined every 81 days.

So finds a new study by scientists at Kent State University, Duke University and the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies.
- Posted Sep. 13, 2013
Fall 2013 Bowman Breakfast Will Explore “The International City of Kent” The fall 2013 Bowman Breakfast will take place at Kent State University in the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Wednesday, Oct. 2. The featured speaker is Marcello Fantoni, Ph.D., associate provost for global education at Kent State. Fantoni will speak on the topic “The International City of Kent.”
- Posted Sep. 16, 2013
Kent State’s Child Development Center Takes Learning to the Outdoors For the 150 children enrolled at the Kent State University Child Development Center, the opportunity to explore and learn more from and about the environment just got better. The center is set to launch its new Outdoor Learning Laboratory on Sept. 19.
- Posted Sep. 17, 2013
Joint Resolution Celebrates and Reaffirms Strong Town-Gown Ties Between Kent State and City of Kent Meeting in the newly opened Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center and looking out at a downtown buzzing with new businesses, the Kent State University Board of Trustees joined with Kent City Council today (Sept. 18) to pass a joint resolution that celebrates and reaffirms the town-gown partnership that led to the revitalization of downtown Kent.
- Posted Sep. 18, 2013
“Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings” to be Topic of Co-Lecture at Kent State on Sept. 27 Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Business Administration will host a co-lecture, “The Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings,” to be given by two of Northeast Ohio’s experts in Middle East politics and political economy on Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. in Room 483 of the College of Business Administration Building, home of Kent State's College of Business Administration.
- Posted Sep. 20, 2013
KSU Advisory: Sept. 20 – Kent Campus Safety Alert On Sept. 20, 2013, a male Kent State University student reported being a victim of a robbery to Kent State Police. The incident occurred on Sept. 15, 2013, between 1:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m.
- Posted Sep. 20, 2013
Kent State’s Homecoming Celebration Takes Place Oct. 5 Kent State University will celebrate its Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 5. This year’s Homecoming theme, “New and Old, Forever Blue and Gold,” will honor Kent State’s past while looking forward to the university’s future.

- Posted Sep. 24, 2013
Akron General, Kent State Form Health and Wellness Collaborative Akron General Health System, a national leader in promoting wellness and disease prevention, and Kent State University, one of the nation’s leading public research universities, have formed a new collaborative for the study and promotion of wellness programs.
- Posted Sep. 24, 2013
Kent State’s Vice President for University Relations Selected for Fulbright Award Kent State University’s Vice President for University Relations Iris E. Harvey has been selected for a U.S.-France International Education Administrators Seminar award by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
- Posted Sep. 26, 2013
Community Event Will Celebrate Successful Partnership Between Kent State and City of Kent A community celebration of the solid partnership between Kent State University and the city of Kent, represented by the new Kent State University Esplanade extension that now connects the university to downtown Kent, will take place Friday, Oct. 4, starting at 3:30 p.m.
- Posted Sep. 27, 2013
Kent State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services Announces 2013 Hall of Fame Winners Kent State University’s College of Education, Health and Human Services will honor seven distinguished alumni at its fourth annual Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony on Friday, Oct. 4, at 6:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom.
- Posted Sep. 30, 2013