The Aeronautics Department from С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology will host its 19th Aviation Heritage Fair on Saturday, Sept. 19. The event is from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Andrew W. Paton Field at the С»ÆƬÊÓƵ Airport, located at 4020 Kent Road in Stow, Ohio. This family-friendly fair will feature vintage aircraft, military vehicles, experienced speakers and pilots, airplane and hot air balloon rides and more. Free parking will be available at the airport and the Stow-Kent Shopping Center. A donation of $5 per person or $10 p...
The 3rd annual С»ÆƬÊÓƵ water symposium is Oct 14 and 15 2015. The theme this year is: WATER IN A CHANGING CLIMATE: REGIONAL TO GLOBAL ISSUES Details about the event can be found at: www.kent.edu/water. Our keynote speaker is Richard Alley, Ph.D., Evan Pugh Professor, Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University. Alley is one of the world’s top experts on natural and anthropogenic forcing of climate change from the Pleistocene era to the present. The event is free and open to the public; you can register at www.kent.edu/wate...
Blue and Gold Pride Days are back at С»ÆƬÊÓƵ! С»ÆƬÊÓƵ faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the university are encouraged to promote university spirit and pride by wearing blue and gold colors. С»ÆƬÊÓƵ introduced Blue and Gold Pride Days last fall as a way to unite members of the university community and promote С»ÆƬÊÓƵ pride. The tradition continues at С»ÆƬÊÓƵ this fall, beginning Friday, Sept. 4, which happens to be College Colors Day, and continues through the school year. IT’S ABOUT KENT STATE PRIDE For Amanda Bevington, a С»ÆƬÊÓƵ c...
С»ÆƬÊÓƵ at Stark Theatre has announced open auditions for the first theatrical production of the season, Almost, Maine, written by John Cariani and directed by С»ÆƬÊÓƵ Stark Assistant Professor of Theatre and Theatre Director Brian Newberg. Auditions are open to everyone, including students and community persons. On a cold winter’s evening, under the magnetic magic of the northern lights, several couples in the sleepy, mythical town of Almost, Maine experience love’s joys and perils through a series of romantic, whimsical, unpredictable and often hilarious vignettes. Hearts a...
С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s College of Business Administration introduces the Firestone Lecture Series in Finance with the inaugural presentation scheduled for Friday, Sept. 18. The series is sponsored by the college’s Department of Finance. The presentations will be lecture-based and research-oriented. The department’s goal is to feature innovative finance research that provides real-world industry applications. С»ÆƬÊÓƵ will work with other area universities including Youngstown State University, Case Western Reserve University, University of Akron and Cleveland State University to showcase ...
A half century ago, the Warren-Youngstown area was still defined by its mostly blue-collar workforce as the region proudly continued to forge its place as a center of steel production. But not everyone yearned for a life defined by what the mills had to offer. Rather than do as their fathers before them did, a small group of young people wanted something different – to be something different. And while many weren’t sure exactly what they wanted, they knew they wanted to be stimulated, to do something others hadn’t yet done. It was Jack Brizzi who was there to provide the spark. “I’ve alway...
Canton, Ohio is the global destination of a lifetime for 11 students from Shenzhen, China, marking a first for a С»ÆƬÊÓƵ regional campus. On August 31, the Stark Campus in Jackson Township will be the first of the С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s seven regional campuses to reach across the world and partner with an international university, China’s Shenzhen Polytechnic, hosting students and a faculty member for a semester. Each visiting student will enroll in 12 credit hours of English as a second language courses at С»ÆƬÊÓƵ at Stark. They will also be educated in American culture and...
An opening celebration to formally introduce С»ÆƬÊÓƵ at Stark’s Science and Nursing Building, the campus’s seventh major structure, was held on Thursday, Aug. 27. The 41,140-square-foot building is С»ÆƬÊÓƵ Stark’s anchor for their science and health-related disciplines. Faculty members and classes from nursing, biological sciences, physics and geology departments are housed in the new facility. The festive event also celebrated the renovation of 5,250 square feet of chemistry laboratory space in the existing Main Hall building that connects to the Science and Nursing Bui...
The School of Communication Studies welcomes Aaron Bacue as a new faculty member. Bacue comes to С»ÆƬÊÓƵ with 17 years of experience teaching communication at the university level, most recently at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. Bacue joins the school as an assistant professor, specializing in interpersonal, relational and non-verbal communication. Bacue discovered the posting for the assistant professor position, and, being an Ohio native, decided to research the position and found many aspects of С»ÆƬÊÓƵ and the School of Communication Studies appealed t...
A decade ago this week, Andrew Curtis, Ph.D., geography professor in С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s College of Arts and Sciences, promised the people of New Orleans that he would continue to return and document the recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. After the hurricane, Curtis used specialized cameras, equipped with GPS, to help direct rescue helicopters and medical crews through the flooded and impassable areas. He also used the cameras to record and document the changing landscape from year-to-year. Watch here as he shares some of the video with WEWS TV and WOIO TV to show how archiving the disas...