Kent State University’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising has once again been named among the nation’s elite, according to new rankings from Fashion-schools.org. For fashion merchandising, the school has been rated No. 3 nationally (top 2 percent of schools considered), No. 3 nationally among public schools and colleges (top 4 percent of schools considered), and No. 1 in the Midwest. For fashion design, the school has been rated No. 4 nationally (top 3 percent of schools considered) No. 2 nationally among public schools and colleges (top 3 percent of schools considered), an...
The Kent State University Museum presents its "Fashions of the Forties” exhibit that features a variety of different looks that typified the 1940s. The exhibit runs through March 2018. ...
Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center to benefit from grant The Poetry Coalition, of which the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University is a founding member, will benefit from a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. To be given over two years, the grant, which will be administered by the Academy of American Poets, will enable the founding members of the coalition to produce national programs on themes of social importance that feature leading contemporary poets. It also will strengthen a network of poetry organizations by making possible two annual meetings of the founding members during th...
Many people consider Italy as the center of Western fashion and design. One student’s project, which explored the influence that African culture has on Italian design, was selected as the winner in the first-ever Kent State Florence Scholarship Competition this past spring (see earlier story). Kimberly Debnam’s project, The Influence of Africa(ns) on Italian Culture, was selected from among eleven competing student project entries by the competition’s panel of judges. Kimberly, a Managerial Marketing major in the College of Business Administration, was presented with her first place award – a ...
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is saddened to announce the death of Dr. Anatoly Khitrin, a professor who specialized in physical chemistry. Khitrin received his M.Sc. from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1978, followed by his Ph.D. in 1985 from the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka, USSR Academy of Sciences. He began his career at this institute in 1978 and ultimately became a leading researcher and head of laboratory. He was then employed by the University of Oklahoma, serving as an adjunct professor and research scientist. K...
Today marks the one year anniversary of Pokémon GO’s worldwide release that sent crowds hiking through parks, meandering into streets and walking for miles in search of Pokémon, those cute little digital characters that appear in real locations on your smartphone. Capturing the little monsters isn’t just fun for the players, it might be good for their health. Too often we sit at a desk all day, spend countless hours in the car, and with a smartphone glued to our hands, it is too easy to spend our free time watching videos, playing games and browsing the internet. Such sedentary behaviors caus...
Kent State University’s Institute for Applied Linguistics has received a grant for $1 million from the Gawlicki Family Foundation of Hartford, Connecticut, to fund the development of a state-of-the-art distance learning translation studies program. The Institute for Applied Linguistics is a research and education program affiliated with the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies within the College of Arts and Sciences. The funding will be used to further distinguish the institute, which already is recognized internationally as a leading program in translation studies. Specifica...
Randy Roberts, a student working toward his associate’s degree in enology at Kent State University at Ashtabula, uses his previous degree in biology to help supplement his education. Roberts previously received his bachelor’s degree from Kent State in 2010 and went to work as a research assistant at Ohio State Orthopaedics, researching new antibiotic regimens. He believes his previous experience working in the sciences has helped prepare him for a future career in the wine industry. “I already have gone through a lot of chemistry and biology in my prior education and work experience,”...
Poetry kiosks written for Traveling Stanzas through Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center, in the College of Arts and Sciences, have found their home in downtown Kent for months and recently expanded to eight Kent Campus locations. Traveling Stanzas first began in 2009 as a community arts program and was a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center and visual communication design students. The kiosks feature posters designed by Kent State visual communication design students and alumni, and an audio button, which when pushed reads the poem in the author’s voice. “This is an exci...
LET'S CLEAR THE AIR Clearing the Air aligns with the priorities of the university’s healthy campus initiative, Kent State of Wellness. This initiative seeks to foster a culture of health and wellness for students and employees at all campuses and is part of the university’s Strategic Roadmap. Tobacco smoke contains a deadly mix of more than 7,000 chemicals; hundreds are harmful, and about 70 can cause cancer. There are health benefits to quitting smoking at any age - it is never too late to quit. Seven out of 10 adult smokers surveyed said they wanted to quit comple...