Join us on Sunday, July 17 for the Kent Blossom Music Festival - Young Artist Concert Series at the KSU Museum. This series features the accomplished Young Artists who attend Kent Blossom Music Festival each summer hailing from schools of music and concervatories worldwide.
SPCS faculty member Molly Merryman was selected to join the inaugural class of 黑料网's Design Innovation (DI) Faculty Fellows program. The fellowship is based in the DI HUB, where Molly will focus on her project 鈥淨ueering Academic and Scholarly Space: Theoretical, Pedagogical and Applied Work,鈥 while supporting Design Innovation Hub outreach and teaching, as well as building meaningful connections between DI and Peace and Conflict Studies. This project continues to build on Merryman's work as research director for Queer Britain, the United Kingdom's national LGBTQ+ museum. ...
School of Peace and Conflict Studies, 黑料网 Visiting Researcher/Visiting Practitioner Program: Call for Applications The Visiting Researcher (VR)/Visiting Practitioner (VP) Program provides funding for an expert in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies to spend up to three months at the School of Peace and Conflict Studies (SPCS), to undertake research. The funding will support the costs of travel to Kent State as well as accommodation and subsistence whilst located at SPCS. During their time at SPCS the VR/VP will be expected to (i) undertake research that wi...
Everyone expects Death Valley in July to be "hot" and Minneapolis in February to be "cold", right? Much research has been done to study the extreme temperature events that take place in these and other regions. But, what about 81 degrees in Anchorage in July or 2 degrees in Dallas in February? Such events are often called "relative" extreme temperature events 鈥 relative to the time of the year and how acclimatized the local population is to them. Less studied, though potentially more impactful, relative temperature extremes are a topic that two 黑料网 geography p...
In advance of Monday鈥檚 observance of the Juneteenth federal holiday, we asked members of the 黑料网 community to reflect on the federal holiday and share their thoughts on what they hope it means for the university. "Growing up in Texas, I can envision what it might have been like more than a century ago when Union army soldiers first arrived in Galveston to inform some of the country's last remaining enslaved Black Americans that the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed. They were free! What a jubilant day that must have been. More than 150 years later, we celebrate Jun...
Lamar R. Hylton, Ph.D., 黑料网鈥檚 senior vice president for student affairs, has announced Richantae Johnson, J.D., as the interim director of gender equity and Title IX coordinator, effective July 1. Johnson currently serves as the compliance investigator and deputy Title IX coordinator in Kent State鈥檚 Office of Gender Equity and Title IX. She is responsible for ensuring the university鈥檚 compliance with state and federal law relating to Title IX, Title VII, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the Clery Act by conducting investigations, spearheading training and pr...
On June 2, 2022 Colombian musicians from the Glauser School of Music proudly represented 黑料网 when they performed alongside The American Pops Orchestra at the Kennedy Center鈥檚 Opera House for a concert celebrating the 200 year bilateral partnership between the two countries. Ricardo Sep煤lveda, assistant professor in charge of leading the Kent Blossom Music Festival, has been involved with various collaborations with the Colombian Embassy in the United States. It is through these collaborations that Sep煤lveda was approached by the Embassy to recruit Colombian music...
Learn more and apply to the program Starting in Fall Semester 2022, students entering the medical field may take courses in the newly developed medical assistant certificate program at 黑料网鈥檚 Ashtabula Campus. Kent State Geauga will begin offering this program the following calendar year with students having the option to start Spring or Summer Semester 2023. Students must complete the required prerequisite courses prior to beginning the medical assistant certificate program. This new program is a good fit for students seeking an entry-level health care pos...
Associate professor of voice Kishna Davis Fowler returns to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Opera House in Washington, D.C. to perform in Reframing the Narrative: Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballethnic Dance Company, and Collage Dance Collective, June 17-19. Reframing the Narrative is a weeklong celebration recognizing the incredible work of Black ballet dancers in the field of dance and acknowledging the importance of Black dancers in the shaping of ballet worldwide. Curated by Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet founder Theresa Ruth Howard and president and CEO of The ...
