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One of our favorite perks as the country's only podiatric medical school affiliated with a state university is research collaboration across programs - like this one with Jason Abounader, an undergraduate student in Computer Science! Jason's paper, An Initial Study of Ingrown Toenail Removal Simulation in Virtual Reality with Bimanual Haptic Feedback for Podiatric Surgical Training won first place in the Choose Ohio first poster competition at Youngstown State University! Drs. Bryan Caldwell and Mark Hardy served as advisors on Jason's poster and authors of the publication, which is pend...

Dear ������ Faculty and Staff, Our next edition of Talking With Todd is coming up today at 2:30 p.m., and I hope you can join me. Click Teams Live to join the session. I’ll be chatting live from my desk and answering your questions related to Ohio Senate Bill 83 and the proposed Ohio state budget for higher education. We’ll also talk about this week’s May 4 Commemoration activities. If you can spare a few minutes, I’d like to engage with you today for Talking With Todd. Sincerely, Todd Diacon President ...

This month, Kent State will graduate its first-ever group of nine doctoral students studying Interprofessional Leadership, a fully online, first-of-its-kind program offered through the College of Education, Health and Human Services.In 2019, a development team of faculty from interested EHHS programs spent two years discussing and designing the program before securing the necessary approvals from the Ohio Department of Education. Subsequently, the first cohort of students was admitted in the summer of 2020."What led to the development of the Ed.D. degree in Interprofes...

The May 4 Task Force is a student-led organization dedicated to honoring the memory of May 4, 1970, and shedding light on the injustices that followed. Through year-round educational events and continuous activism, the group focuses on what May 4 means to current students. “I believe that our task force is more than a story from a textbook, more than a mission statement or a part of a giant piece of international history. We are the voice of the past, present and the future,” said Trevor Walton, a junior political science major and co-chair of the May 4 Task Force. “The May 4 Task Force...

Greetings, Digital Sciences and Emerging Media and Technology alumni! I am excited to launch this newsletter and share some great stories from Kent State with you. Today, I would like to share our School’s story from the last several years. After becoming part of the College of Communication and Information, the School of Digital Sciences hired four new joint-faculty members who arrived to the Kent Campus in 2019. These new faculty members quickly got to work, joining a group of active Digital Sciences faculty members, to revisit and revise the School’s curriculum. Our goals included en...

The 37th Annual Senior Honors Luncheon was held on Saturday, April 22, 2023 in the ������ Ballroom to recognize seniors graduating in the spring, summer and fall of 2023. This ceremony also provides an opportunity for the Honors College to recognize alumni who have served the college with their time and efforts to allow for increased opportunities for Honors students.   This year, the Honors College announced Gary Bengier, class of 1977, as the 2023 Distinguished Honors Alumni award recipient. Bengier graduated Summa cum Laude from Kent State with a Bachelo...