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����Թ� Assistant Professor Jennifer Mapes, Ph.D., was honored with the Volunteer of the Year award by Main Street ����Թ� during the organization’s annual awards celebration. Main Street ����Թ� is a nonprofit organization focused on the revitalization of downtown ����Թ� and is an affiliate of the national Main Street program and the Heritage Ohio program. Mapes, a faculty member in ����Թ� State’s Department of Geography and a member of Main Street ����Թ�’s design committee, received the award for creating kiosk and online maps in downtown ����Թ�. “I was really flattered to be reco...

Mary Anne Nichols, M.L.S., School of Information, was appointed to the YALSA Midwinter Paper Presentation Planning Committee (2017-2018).  ...

Haithem Zourrig, Ph.D., Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at ����Թ� at Stark, and his co-presenters received a Best Paper Award in Global and Cross-cultural Marketing Track at the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators conference, March 8-11, 2017. The paper is titled “The Perceived Deceptiveness of Insurance Fraud: A Cross-cultural Perspective on Information Manipulation Theory.” His co-presenters were Mengxia Zhang, professor of marketing at University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China, and Kamel El Hedhli, assistant professor of marke...

Peter C. Kratcoski Sr., Department of Sociology at ����Թ� at Stark, authored “Policing: Continuity and Change,” a section in Global Issues in Contemporary Policing. ...

Virginia Dressler, University Libraries, authored a journal article titled “The State of Affairs With Digital Preservation at ARL Member Libraries: A Survey and Analysis of Policy” in Digital Library Perspectives, Vol. 33 (2), 2017. ...

Familiar Face Janice Lessman-Moss Professor School of Art ����Թ� Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I am the head of the Textile Art program, which recently relocated to a fabulous new facility in the Center for Visual Arts. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: September 1981 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Graduate teaching assistant at the University of Michigan LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The campus, the people – great colleagues and students, and the cultural activities ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: The School of Art has an excel...

New Face Adam Smith Academic Advisor I Vacca Office of Student Services ����Թ� Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I provide academic advising to a diverse population of students. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Texas A&M University, the University of Akron LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Front Campus, Office of Global Education ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Tuition waiver, professional development RESIDES IN: Akron, Ohio HOMETOWN: New London, Ohio EDUCATION: B.A. Inte...

����Թ� City Schools awarded its March Collaborative Organization of the Month to ����Թ�’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’s Diversity Education and Training Lab. The Diversity Education and Training Lab promotes dialogue and helps develop inclusion in various environments. The lab also touches on topics such as microaggressions, cultural competency and discrimination. Lisa Givan, associate director of diversity training, oversees and serves as lead facilitator within the lab. “We provide training for student organizations, departments, divisions and external orga...

Lucas Engelhardt, Ph.D., associate professor in ����Թ� at Stark’s Department of Economics, is a firm believer in pursing innovation and investing in capital, when it comes to driving economic growth in cities. HonestlyNow Banking consulted Englehardt, and more than a dozen esteemed professors in the fields of finance and economics, to gather their thoughts on recessions. Together, the analysts studied 15,000 unique data points to reveal the best and worst recovered cities from 2008's Great Recession. Read HonestlyNow Banking’s best and worst recovered cities, and Engelhardt’s ...