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Assistant Professor in Foundations, Mahwish Chishty, is designing a central scenic element for the Company of Fools production of GROUNDED by award-winning playwright George Brant.  The play will run Sept. 28-Oct. 13 at the Liberty Theatre in Hailey, Idaho.  "I am delighted to be collaborating with Company of Fools' production team to design this scenic element for such a timely play as Grounded," said Ms. Chishty. "Bringing George Brant's vision to life, I have taken inspiration from the script to generate this symbolic rendering. Adding to this drama, I am also improvising by ta...

Assistant Professor in Foundations, Mahwish Chishty, will have a solo exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London from October 19, 2016 through March 19, 2017.  Chishty’s work combines silhouettes of military drones with decorative Pakistani folk art patterns to highlight the way in which the presence of foreign drones over Pakistan has become a feature of the physical, psychological and cultural environment of the country. ...

The ������ Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Friday, Sept. 30. The Board is scheduled to convene at 2 p.m. in the Aeronautics and Technology Building, Room 101. The Aeronautics and Technology Building is located at 1400 E. Summit St. in Kent, Ohio. Trustees will retire into executive session from 8-9:30 a.m. in Room 214 to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.”  Board committees will meet as follows: Academic Excellence and Student Success Committee – 9:30-10:30 a.m. in Room 229. Audit and Compliance C...

College of Nursing Palliative Care Research Team Present at Annual Conference ������ College of Nursing research faculty members Pamela Stephenson, Ph.D., RN, AOCNS, Dana Hansen, Ph.D., ACHPN, APRN, and Denice Sheehan, Ph.D. MSN, RN, presented their palliative care research findings at Hospice of the Western Reserve's annual conference “Telling the Stories: The Deeper Voice of Hospice” on Friday, Sept. 16. The conference focused on the importance of conversations that address the goals of care and how to overcome barriers. Healthcare providers learned how a patient or fami...

Marianne Martens, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, chaired the 2017 Notable Children's Recordings Committee for the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC).  ...

John E. Simmons, School of Library and Information Science, authored Museums: A History. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield (2016). ...

Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, is lead author (co-author, R. Shura) of an article titled “Residents’ Perspectives on Living With Vision Impairment in Long-term Care:  An Unseen Factor in Quality of Life and Appropriateness of Care,” published in Journal of Nursing Home Research.  Vol. 2, p. 34-40. ...

Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, is lead author (co-author, E.K. Jacob) of an article titled “User-generated Tagging Vocabularies: An Investigation of the Levels of Abstraction of Tags Across Three Resource Genres,” published in Information Processing & Management. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2016.05.005 (Available online, May 24, 2016). Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457316301364 ...

Familiar Face Kathleen Wiler Head Coach, Women’s Field Hockey Intercollegiate Athletics Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Oversee all aspects of the women’s field hockey program; supervise a staff of two; manage and coach a team of 22 or more students to graduate and win championships WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: March 2006 (also served as a graduate assistant from 2000-2001) EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Assistant coach, Miami University LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I get to work with a great staff every day. ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE U...

New Face Cason G. Brunt Director of Student Support Services and Academic Diversity Outreach University College Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Provide leadership and oversight for the federally funded TRIO Student Support Services Program, as well as Academic Diversity Outreach Initiatives for University College. Responsibilities include grant administration, staff supervision, budget management, targeted student outreach and strategic planning.  WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: January 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Assistant director for Academic...