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Dear ºÚÁÏÍø Students, Faculty and Staff, We hope this message finds you successfully winding down your academic year and looking forward to a restful and enjoyable summer. Throughout the 2022 Spring Semester, we have been diligently working on several projects to foster a greater sense of belonging for everyone in our university community and to cultivate an even stronger climate of inclusion. Our Anti-Racism Task Force made great strides in its endeavors this spring, including the creation of its website and dashboard, through which we can promote transparency and trac...

After more than 30 years as the Costume Shop Supervisor for the School of Theatre and Dance and Porthouse Theatre, Robin Ruth will retire from ºÚÁÏÍø this summer. When you stop and think about all the students that have walked through the Costume Shop and the number of costumes that have graced the stages of ºÚÁÏÍø and Porthouse Theatre over the last 30 years, they all have one thing in common: Robin Ruth. As the Costume Shop Supervisor, Robin brought her costuming and wardrobe expertise to hundreds of theatre, dance, and fashion students at Kent State and...

If you catch the last few minutes of class with Joel Peerless, MD, you might be lucky enough to learn a bit of American Sign Language (ASL). Peerless, who serves CPM as Adjunct Faculty teaching Medicine to third year students, started adding ASL to the end of his lessons this year as an extracurricular, albeit beneficial activity for the future doctors. As for Peerless himself, ASL began as a retirement hobby just four years ago following more than 30 years in the medical field. “My intention was to become a sign language interpreter as a retiree profession…however, once I got into the cour...

Associate Professor of History Matt Crawford, Ph.D., was recently awarded a short-term Beckman Center Fellowship by the Philadelphia-based Science History Institute. The fellowship includes a stipend that will allow Matt to continue work as a researcher in residence on his second book - a study of metallurgy and mining in late colonial Peru - in the institute's archives for one month. An expert on the Spanish Empire in Latin America, Matt's work connects the History of Science with the history of Latin America and the Atlantic World. This latest award follows on the heels of Matt rece...

Jeffrey Hallam, Ph.D., FRSPH, professor of social and behavioral sciences and associate dean for research and global affairs of the ºÚÁÏÍø's College of Public Health, recently returned from a five-week visit to Brazil. Hallam joined the faculty of the Graduate Program in Health Sciences (PPGCS) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR) as a visiting scholar and had a unique opportunity to work in the field fighting against leprosy. In the first part of his trip, Hallam joined a 12-day research expedition to the village of Santo Antonio do Prata, a former leprosy c...

Thanks to a new partnership between ºÚÁÏÍø and Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, the College of Public Health will offer students a new pathway to earn a bachelor’s degree from ºÚÁÏÍø and a law degree from CSU in six years. Students in the Bachelor of Science in Public Health, Allied Health concentration, will have the possibility to enroll in the Juris Doctor program and complete both degrees in six years instead of seven. "The new 3+3 program will allow students to double count an entire year’s worth of coursework between their und...

U.S. News & World Report has ranked six ºÚÁÏÍø programs in the top 100 among public institutions in its 2023 edition of Best Graduate Schools. Among the top 100 public institution programs, Kent State is recognized in the Best Nursing Schools: Master’s Programs, Best Education Schools, Best Mathematics Programs, Best Psychology Schools, Best Public Health Programs and Best Physics Schools rankings. Kent State is also recognized in an additional five new national rankings, bringing the total of Kent State programs recognized in the U.S. News 2023 Best Graduate Schools ranking...

Dante Capers Named Spring 2022 Trumbull Commencement Speaker With more than 20 years of giving back to the Warren community, Dante Capers will share his inspiration with ºÚÁÏÍø at Trumbull's graduating class at this year's spring commencement. Capers, a Warren High School graduate and Kent State Alumnus, will deliver the commencement speech during ºÚÁÏÍø at Trumbull’s May 13 ceremony at Packard Music Hall. Capers is in his fifteenth year as an administrator in the Warren City School District and last year was named Associate Superintendent of S...