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The players thought they were just coming to a typical morning meal.  Turns out, it was a lot more like Christmas morning. Under Armour, the official athletics apparel partner of ������ Athletics, surprised the men’s basketball team Thursday with new shoes, shirts, and other items, including backpacks styled for Golden State Warrior and NBA Most Valuable Player Steph Curry. While coaches knew what was planned for breakfast, the players had no idea.  Most were all smiles trying on the gear and filling up their backpacks. Most took their backpacks with them as t...

The Wick Poetry Center is proud to be part of the twenty-two-member national Poetry Coalition (PoCo) united to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. During the month of March, the Poetry Coalition launches its inaugural effort, Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration.   As part of the Wick Poetry Center's commitment on the theme of migration and our ongoing Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders project, this week we are featuring Linda Zhao, an immigra...

The Wick Poetry Center is proud to be part of the twenty-two-member national Poetry Coalition (PoCo) united to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. During the month of March, the Poetry Coalition launches its inaugural effort, Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration.   As part of the Wick Poetry Center's committment on the theme of migration and our ongoing Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders project, this week we are featuring Day Soe Wah. Day Soe ...

The Kent State Club Managers Association of America (CMAA) student chapter is composed of students in the Hospitality Management program from both Kent State Ashtabula and Kent campuses who are interested in the private country club industry. Each year, the CMAA World Conference hosts the Club of the Future award program, which allows student members to propose an idea of what they could see the club industry looking like five, 10 or 15 years in the future. Thirty-six student members make up the Kent State chapter. Of those, 17 members, including nine students from Kent State Ashtabula ...

Luxury lifestyle brand Michael Kors will partner with the ������ School of Fashion Design and Merchandising to present the school’s 35th Annual Fashion Show on Friday, April 28, and Saturday, April 29. FS2 Presented by Michael Kors will span three runway events. In addition, Don Witkowski, Kent State alumnus and president of Men’s at Michael Kors, will be inducted into the Fashion School’s Hall of Fame. The fashion show will include a 2 p.m. matinee and 7 p.m. awards show on April 28. The sponsor/VIP show will be held at 7 p.m. on April 29. FS2 Presented by Michael Kors i...

On Thursday, March 9, two teams that formed during the Fashion Tech Hackathon in January took top spots at the annual LaunchNET Kent State Idea Olympics competition. “Abeona, the total immersion jacket” took first place, while “Hermes, the helmet with brains,” took second place. Two other ideas, Popstyle and The Bean Bike, tied for third place, while GIFTY (Gestalting Youth) won the Social Enterprise award.   The team that developed Abeona, a tech-enhanced hiking jacket, consists of Ryan Holland (graduate, Digital Sciences), Brian Steinhoff (senior, Digital Science), Albert Morgant...

California Dreaming!  The Kent State Men’s Basketball team arrived in Sacramento Wednesday motivated for its first NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament appearance in nine years. The Golden Flashes had a short sendoff at the Kent Campus before busing to the Akron-Canton Airport for the four-hour flight.  Mother Nature delayed the flight for a few hours, but the team arrived in California mid-afternoon, and after a short stop at their hotel, team members were off to a local high school gymnasium for practice. Staff members at the team hotel greeted the MAC Tournament Champions with b...

CACM Director Patrick Coy has published a chapter in a new book focused on constructive conflict management. Coy’s chapter, “Communication, Constructiveness, and Asymmetry in Nonviolent Action Theory and Practice,” is chapter two in Perspectives in Waging Conflicts Constructively: Cases, Concepts and Practice, Bruce Dayton and Louis Kriesberg, editors, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. Here is a link to reviews:  https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442265516/Perspectives-in-Waging-Conflicts-Constructively-Cases-Concepts-and-Practice     ...

  CACM Associate Professor, Landon Hancock, has published a new edited book, his third, this one entitled:  "Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change,” Emerald Publishing Group, Bingley, UK, 2016.   http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/book/10.1108/S0163-786X201538   Synopsis This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (RSMCC) is divided into two parts. Part I presents a series of cases that tie together narratives of being, knowing and contestation surrounding the claiming of identity for the self or the cat...

Emerald Group Publishing of the UK is happy to announce Volume 38 of  Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change   Edited by Patrick G. Coy, ������, USA   Housed at the Center for Applied Conflict Management at ������, a long-standing characteristic of the Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series is publishing new theoretical and empirical work that connects previously disparate sub-fields. This volume continues that tradition by opening with five papers that join social movements research ...