ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s Employee Wellness Office is pleased to co-host its spring car seat safety inspection on Tuesday, June 20, from 3-6 p.m. at ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s Child Development Center parking lot located at 775 Loop Rd. in Kent. Statistics show that four out of five car seats are installed incorrectly. Keep your child safe by making sure your child's car seat is properly installed. If you have more than one car seat or base, feel free to have them each inspected. You do not have to have your child with you for the inspection, but they are certainly welcome to attend. If you have your vehic...
New Face Kendra Albright Director School of Library and Information Science Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I provide strategic direction to advance the school's global reputation and excellence in academic programs, scholarship and service to the profession. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: July 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: University of South Carolina, University of Sheffield, University of Tennessee LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Excellent students, highly talented faculty and staff, nice place to work ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSIT...
David Dees, Ph.D., of Guilford Lake, Ohio, has been selected to serve as dean and chief administrative officer of the ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ Columbiana County campuses. He will provide overall leadership of ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ at East Liverpool and ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ at Salem, two of the Regional Campuses in the university’s eight-campus system. Dees currently serves as interim dean of the Columbiana County campuses, a position he has held since July 1, 2016. He began serving as the permanent dean on June 1, 2017. “I am so honored to be selected for this position where I had actually star...
Lower Great Lakes Emmy Awards will be held June 17 at the Cleveland Hilton A group of undergraduate and graduate ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ students in the School of Theatre and Dance’s scenery design course have been invited to design and build the set for the Lower Great Lakes Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Emmy Award ceremony taking place June 17 at the Cleveland Hilton. Advised by Assistant Professor Tamara L. Honesty, the students met with John Stealey, vice president of the Lower Great Lakes Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (N...
With a goal of becoming one of the nation’s top public universities in aeronautics and engineering education and research, the ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ Board of Trustees approved changing the name of the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology to the College of Aeronautics and Engineering. The change better reflects the expansion of the college’s programs and accentuates its highly trained and sought-after graduates who go on to work for commercial airlines, corporate flight departments, the military and the Federal Aviation Administration. The revised name furth...
ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s Division of Human Resources is accepting applications for the Institute for Excellence (I4E) until June 15. The Institute for Excellence is ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s premier leadership program. According to the Human Resources LEAD Awards, the university’s Institute for Excellence program ranks eighth in the nation in the category of certificate programs with emphasis on leadership and organizational development. The Institute for Excellence will begin in September. The program has two tracks, the Administrators and Individual Contributors. The Admini...
ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., received the President’s Medal from President Beverly Warren during the One University Commencement Ceremony on May 13 in Dix Stadium. The President’s Medal is the highest honor conferred by ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ. It recognizes faculty and administrative staff who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ through extraordinary and unique service. In a stellar academic career spanning nearly 50 years, Lovejoy has advanced the education of students and global understanding of human...
(Warren, OH) Frank Lindsay, ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ Trumbull’s Manager of Information Technology, has always been looking for ways to help others. When his father, Frank Lindsay, Sr., was losing his battle with cancer in 2000, he began admiring the work of hospice organizations and noticed how they made a difficult time a little more tolerable. With help from Lindsay’s wife, Heather, and friends Jennifer and Matt Durno, Rock4Reason was established in July 2016. What began as a series of fundraisers for Hospice of the Valley and the American Cancer Society, became a full-fledged 501c3 charitable organizati...
ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ celebrated its newest graduates at its Spring 2017 Commencement ceremonies. In total, ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ conferred 5,636 degrees, including 992 associate degrees, 3,319 bachelor’s degrees, 1,139 master’s degrees, 181 doctoral degrees and five educational specialist degrees. ...
Two ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ students received Best in Show honors, as well as the Dean’s Choice Awards, during the April 20 ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ at Tuscarawas 13th annual Student Computer Designed Art Exhibition. The art expo was held at the Tuscarawas County Center for the Arts in New Philadelphia. Leslie Oakes won Best in Show for her artwork, Lucifer- The Fallen Angel. Oakes is a junior majoring in engineering technology with a concentration in computer design, animation and game design. Joseph Smith had two pieces of artwork win Best in Show, Tank and Robot. Smith is a senior pursuing a ...