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Molly Merryman, Ph.D., the founding director of ������'s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and associate professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, was featured in a USA TODAY opinion piece which outlined black transgender women’s contributions to the LGBTQ movement. The article focused on how in the United States there is a continued discrimination against LGTBQ members of African descent despite their pivotal role in the advancement of the LGBTQ movement.   Dr. Merryman provided additional insight revealing to USA TODAY that “there’s a ho...

Two Faculty Members Awarded for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring ������’s inaugural year for the Excellence in Faculty Mentoring awards resulted in recognition for Jayne Moneysmith and Amoaba Gooden. A result of the Great Place Initiative, and funded by the Office of the Provost, the awards underscore the commitment to endorse outstanding mentoring of faculty by faculty, and they acknowledge the time and dedication faculty mentors devote to fostering the career development and academic success of colleagues in the areas of research, creative activity, education, service and...

The class began with the normal jockeying of students – some trying to find a seat, others attempting last-minute reviews with classmates before they had to present group projects, still others racing in at the last minute. ������ Professor Elaine Frantz, Ph.D., called her History of Crime class to order and wasted no time getting her students started on their oral presentations, calling groups of three or four to the front of the class to talk about a particular crime they had researched. In this history class, however, some of the students were more intimately familiar with ...

������ alumnus Josh Cribbs, a former star on the football field, will now become a star on the small screen with his wife, Maria.   The prominent Cleveland couple will co-host their own local talk show called “Cribbs in the CLE: Josh and Maria Live” beginning this fall on WOIO and WUAB.   The half-hour long show will focus on the couple and their discussions on the latest local and national news, relationships, parenting, entertainment, fitness and other topics of interest to viewers in Northeast Ohio.   The couple met at Kent State when Mr. Cribbs was a qua...

������ and Cleveland State University are pleased to announce a unique collaborative effort to help move technology and innovation from our laboratories and research facilities to commercial markets. The TeCK Fund will be funded with $800,000 – half from the State of Ohio’s Third Frontier Fund, and $200,000 apiece from KSU and CSU. Grants will range in size from $10,000 to $100,000, and must be used to validate university owned technology, build prototypes and analyze commercial market potential, all with an eye towards creating jobs and opportunities in Ohio. The TeCK Fund w...

A team of Kent State researchers took top prize at the Burton D. Morgan Foundation’s LAUNCHTOWN SOARTM Competition, held at Baldwin Wallace University in April, beating teams from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, and the University of Akron.   Their winnings ($7,000) will allow the team to further develop a device which could solve an age-old problem for diabetics.   The device, called a “Shear Force Mat,” represents a breakthrough for physicians seeking to understand the formation of plantar ulcers — one of the most prevalent and dangerous problems fa...

State Approves Round 2 of Kent State-Cleveland State Innovation Partnership State of Ohio officials have renewed a $600,000 technology commercialization partnership between ������ and Cleveland State University. Last week, the Ohio Third Frontier Commission approved Round 2 of the TeCK Fund, a $600,000 hybrid commercialization and faculty startup accelerator program which assists university faculty and startup companies to bring innovative new products to the market. The grant awards $300,000 in Third Frontier funds, Kent State and Cleveland State will contribute $150,0...

������ will represent a full third of the 12 teams accepted to the I-Corps @ Akron Summer 2019 Cohort. The University of Akron Research Foundation announced the selections on May 29. I-Corps @ Akron is a public-private partnership program, developed by the University of Akron Research Foundation and funded by the National Science Foundation, which teaches faculty innovators to identify and leverage commercialization opportunities for technologies developed from academic research, and offers entrepreneurship training to student participants. The Summer Cohort is a new idea fro...

The ������ Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting Wednesday, June 26, at 3:30 p.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of the University Library.  The two purposes of the special meeting are to ratify a four-year, collective bargaining agreement between the university and full-time, tenure-track faculty who are represented by the Kent State Chapter of the American Association of University Professors; and to consider 2019-20 tuition and fees. No committee meetings will be held, and no other items are on th...