College of Communication & Information
Gretchen Dworznik, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will present her research on Friday, April 20, as part of the Spring 2018 College of Communication and Information (CCI) Research Colloquium. Dworznik will present her research titled, “Hurricane Harvey: PTSD in Journalists” at 2:15 p.m. in Rm. 158 Taylor Hall. She will discuss her study of posttraumatic stress (PTSD) and depression in journalists who covered Hurricane Harvey, which hit southeast Texas in September of last year. The hurricane was devastating, not because...
Kent State Community Meets Potential Partners for First Major Project of $1 Billion Master Plan
On April 12, future generations of business leaders got a first look at design concepts from several firms competing to develop ’s new College of Business Administration building. Hundreds of students, faculty, business leaders and community members gathered Thursday evening in the Kent Student Center Ballroom for the first public presentation of potential design/build options for the transformational project. In an era of shrinking resources, Kent State is pursuing an innovative approach to transforming its campus without issuing debt. Development teams prese...
Kent State Police Encourage Students to Wait2TXT
Did you know that if you are driving and have a passenger, are eating or drinking and send a text, your chances of crashing increase by 1,139 percent? April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and Police Services has brought the Wait2TXT campaign to the Kent Campus. This campaign targets both distracted driving and distracted walking to raise awareness and foster safe driving behaviors on campus, in Kent and beyond. An event earlier this month at the Kent Student Center brought together representatives from Kent State Police Services, Kent City Police Depart...
LaunchNET Kent State Client’s Startup Raises $10 Million
Through a series of company-building steps, programs and funding, Remesh, what started as the idea of a student, has become a star in the Northeast Ohio tech-startup world. The company recently raised $10 million from a Series A funding round led by General Catalyst with participation from seed-round lead investor LionBird Ventures. Andrew Konya, co-founder of Remesh and Kent State alumnus, who received his bachelor’s degree in physics in 2010, began his entrepreneurial journey as a Kent State graduate student in 2013 by developing algorithms to facilitate co...
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