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�������� President Beverly Warren inspired the university community to embrace the upcoming academic year as the “Year of Innovation” in seeking new ways to collaborate with a collective purpose that makes a positive impact on the region and the world.  President Warren delivered her remarks Oct. 17 at her annual State of the University address, which was attended by more than 300 people at the Kent Student Center Kiva on the Kent Campus and watched on a livestream across the university’s eight-campus system. “This is the start of an innovation era,” President War...

Angela Spalsbury, Ph.D., of Chesterland, Ohio, has been selected as the new dean and chief administrative officer of �������� at Geauga in Burton and Kent State’s Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg. A Kent State alumna, Dr. Spalsbury currently serves as professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Youngstown State University. She will join Kent State on Jan. 1, 2018. “I am sincerely looking forward to being a part of the dynamic Kent State family,” Dr. Spalsbury says. “I will work diligently with faculty, staff and students to foster a thriving academ...

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Finals are Friday, Oct. 27, from noon-2 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. 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. Approximately 45 graduate students participated in the 3MT preliminary rounds last week, and the top presenters from each prel...

TV2’s news and entertainment staffs will come together Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, to produce a 25-hour live broadcast to benefit Akron Children’s Hospital. TV2, Kent State Student Media’s student-run television station, is hosting this fundraiser through Extra Life’s web platform. Extra Life is an organization that creates gaming marathons to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. ExtraLife has more than 100,00 members and serves nearly 10 million families across the nation. “It is so important to give back to the community,” said TV2 general manager Anna Huntsman, ’19. “TV2 is truly...

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David Trebing, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Communication Studies, was named one of six university-wide finalists for the 2017 Outstanding Teaching Awards. Sponsored by the �������� Teaching Council, the Outstanding Teaching Award honors outstanding teaching by non-tenure track and part-time faculty at ��������. The award parallels the Distinguished Teaching Awards sponsored by the Kent Alumni Association, which recognizes full-time faculty who demonstrate extraordinary teaching in the classroom and a devotion to touching the lives of students. Trebin...