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Collaboration is anything but virtual between ������ at Stark and ������ at Tuscarawas. In fact, the computer design, animation and game design partnership has been a reality for nearly a decade. This fall, Kent State Stark will host students in a newly designed classroom and Virtual Reality Room in Main Hall. “What is it we need to do to accommodate this growing program? That was our first question,” says A. Bathi Kasturiarachi, Ph.D., associate dean for academic affairs at Kent State Stark. “Prior to this point, the program had been based at Kent Stat...

Herb Page, ������’s director of golf and head men’s golf coach, has been selected to serve as one of the head coaches of the International team at the 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup on July 6-8 at Evian Resort Golf Club in France. Page will team with Stanford University head women’s coach Anne Walker as the top college golfers from around the world take on the top college golfers in the United States. The 2018 event expands the Ryder Cup-style team format that previously featured college players from Europe battling the USA. It is also the only major tournament in the world that will...

The ������ Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, Sept. 13. The Board is scheduled to convene at 2:45 p.m. in the Timken Active Learning Classroom (Room 190) in the new Integrated Sciences Building. Adjacent to the Student Green and Williams Hall, the Integrated Sciences Building is located at 1175 Lefton Esplanade in Kent, Ohio. Trustees will retire into executive session from 7:30-9 a.m. in Room 251G to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” Board committees will meet as follows: Committee of the Whol...

Electroencephalogram (EEG) caps are helping ������ researchers unlock the secrets of the mind. David Fresco, Ph.D., professor and director of Kent State’s Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation Laboratory (PERL) and co-director of the Kent Electrophysiological Neuroscience Laboratory (KENL), returned to the Sera Jey Monastery in Bylakuppe, India, to better understand what goes on in the brains of monks as they hold a debate. The researchers are studying brain activity, specifically what happens when neurons synchronize. “Are they activating the same parts of their brain...

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Four ������ alumni were honored on Friday, Sept. 22, at the School of Communication Studies Alumni Awards & Reception in Taylor Hall. The event was part of the College of Communication and Information's celebration of Taylor Hall's reopening, Sept. 21 - 23, 2017. Three distinct awards are given at the annual celebration: Centennial Award, a recognition given to individuals of great stature and service to the university who have gained national or international recognition for their work in communication studies. This was awarded to Carol Wilder, Ph.D., ’74, an ...

������ at East Liverpool is hosting Paige Bosich, a doctoral student in Kent State’s sociology department, 2-3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 7, in the Quiet Study Lounge in Purinton Hall. Her presentation, “Navigating the Master’s Thesis” is free and open to the public. The talk will be especially helpful to anyone considering a master’s degree or for students working on an honor’s thesis. This event is sponsored by the Social Science Research Lab at Kent State East Liverpool and students in Dr. Lydia Rose’s researching society class. Bosich completed her undergraduate degree at Sai...

������ has been ranked one of the safest campuses in the country by the Council for Home Safety and Security, a national trade association. Kent State was named to the council’s 2017 top 100 list of Safest Colleges in America. Nationwide, Kent State ranks 11th on the list. Among Ohio institutions, Kent State ranks the safest. The ranking was determined by the most recent data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting and the National Center for Education Statistics. More than 2,000 four-year colleges and universities were assessed. Dean Tondiglia, Kent State’s police chief...