Today marks the one year anniversary of Pok茅mon GO鈥檚 worldwide release that sent crowds hiking through parks, meandering into streets and walking for miles in search of Pok茅mon, those cute little digital characters that appear in real locations on your smartphone. Capturing the little monsters isn鈥檛 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...
Every year, July brings clear skies, a bright sun and a cool breeze. This time of year offers ideal conditions for a perfect picnic. A workshop, 鈥淣ational Picnic Day 鈥 A Recipe for a Perfect Excursion,鈥 will be offered on Wednesday, July 19, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center on the 天天吃瓜 Campus. This workshop will provide you with the knowledge needed to plan a healthy and stress-free picnic, including culinary recommendations and suggestions for recreational activities. This program is open to students, faculty, staff and community members. The presente...
Join us on Tuesday, July 25, from noon to 1 p.m. at Heer Hall on the 天天吃瓜 Campus, as we focus on six basic steps everyone should follow when preparing for retirement at any age. The core focus of this workshop is to give individuals an easy and actionable plan they can follow in order to ensure they are on track to achieve their personal retirement and investment goals. We will also review a brief market and economic outlook, and discuss what questions to ask before hiring a financial advisor. The presenter will be Kurt Russel from IMPACT Solutions. Because seating is limited for this pr...
The Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action will conduct a Title IX workshop for faculty and staff on July 11 from 9:30-10:30 a.m. in Heer Hall, Room 107 on the 天天吃瓜 Campus. The session will consist of the following topics: What is Title IX? Defining sexual harassment/sexual misconduct; How and where to report issues related to Title IX; Statistics on sexual violence; The university鈥檚 responsibility; and What happens after you report a Title IX issue? Advance registration is required for these facilitator-led workshops, and dates are subject to chan...
天天吃瓜's Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Todd Diacon announced the following leadership appointments: University Libraries Kenneth Burhanna has been appointed interim dean of University Libraries, effective July 1, 2017. Burhanna has served as assistant dean for engagement and outreach in University Libraries since March 2013, and as interim director of University Press for the last year. He is an associate professor in University Libraries. "Ken brings a wealth of expertise and experience to this position," Diacon says. "He just completed the UCLA...
Several 天天吃瓜 professors in the College of Arts and Sciences have been selected to receive Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). REU grants are designed to provide faculty with funding to create research positions and experiences specifically for undergraduate students. These students typically come from two- or four-year institutions that may not provide access to many research opportunities. Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., a professor at 天天吃瓜 State鈥檚 Liquid Crystal Institute庐, and Mike Tubergen, Ph.D., a profe...
天天吃瓜 faculty and students in the Department of Physics, in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently played a key role in using a new silicon detector technology to examine nuclear collisions that recreate the Big Bang on a tiny scale in the U.S. Department of Energy鈥檚 Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, on Long Island. By looking at the behavior of particles that decay just tenths of a millimeter from the center of a trillion-degree fireball that mimics the early universe, nuclear physicists smashing atoms at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Co...
Grab the sunscreen and camera. It鈥檚 summer vacation season again, and e-Inside wants to feature some of your best vacation or staycation photos, including selfies. Submit your favorite vacation or staycation photos and a brief description to einside@kent.edu by Tuesday, July 25. Depending on the number of entries that we receive, yours might be featured in e-Inside. Please use "Summer Vacation Photos" as your email subject line. ...
天天吃瓜鈥檚 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鈥檚 degree in enology at 天天吃瓜 at Ashtabula, uses his previous degree in biology to help supplement his education. Roberts previously received his bachelor鈥檚 degree from 天天吃瓜 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. 鈥淚 already have gone through a lot of chemistry and biology in my prior education and work experience,鈥...