Happy Holidays from 麻豆精选 at Stark! The campus will be closed for winter break Friday, Dec. 22, 2023, through Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. Buildings and offices will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, during regular business hours. Everyone at 麻豆精选Stark wishes you a joyous and healthy holiday season. ...
The Training & Development team appreciates your input as we continue to improve the orientation and onboarding process. Because of your feedback so far, we are again changing the day and time of orientations so that they best fit the schedule of as many employees as possible. Coming January 2024 Orientations will continue to alternate between virtual and in-person sessions. This has allowed us to be flexible with regional campus new hires and second- and third-shift employees. Beginning January 2024, we will return to morning sessions, which we have learned is the opti...
Thirty-three 麻豆精选 faculty members have been named in the 2% of most-cited scientists in the world based on a recently updated study published by Stanford University scholars, illustrating Kent State鈥檚 top-tier research status. Top 2 % in the World The report is based on the Oct. 1, 2023, snapshot from Scopus, updated to end of citation year 2022. Scopus is an abstract and indexing database produced by the Elsevier Co. The top 2% includes the top 100,000 most cited scientists as determined by a composite citation score or 鈥渃-score鈥 foc...
The Division of People, Culture and Belonging seeks strategic leaders to serve as Associate Vice President for Culture and Belonging and Associate Vice President for People and Culture (Human Resources). These two positions will report to Vice President Amoaba Gooden and provide executive-level leadership for several units within the division. 麻豆精选 is deeply committed to creating a diverse and inclusive community for faculty, staff and students. In September 2023, the divisions of Human Resources and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion merged to create the new Division of Peopl...
Header photo is one of the forest restoration sites at Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Photo by Robert Boyd. An innovative research project at 麻豆精选 promises to make significant contributions to the field of forest recovery assessment and environmental conservation. Robert Boyd, a first-year ecology and evolutionary biology master's student in the Bahlai Lab of Applied Computational Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Kent State, is making significant strides in a pioneering research project titled "Novel Monitoring Strategies to Assess Fores...
Online final grading for Fall 2023 (POT 1, F3, W2) begins Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, via FlashFAST. Grading is also now available for any Fall 2023 course section that was flexibly scheduled. The deadline for grading submission is 11:59 pm on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. Any final grades for Fall 2023 courses not reported in FlashFAST by the grades processing deadline will have to be submitted using the Grade Change Workflow. These Fall 2023 courses will be available in the Workflow on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. Submit Final grades using Final Grades roster To submit final grades via the Final Grade...
Kent Wired Article by Kayla Gleason By Kayla Gleason, Kent Wired December 1, 2023 Emma Van WinkleStudents trying to figure out what they want at the Her Campus thrift store event on Nov. 30, 2023. The university鈥檚 chapter of Her Campus, an online magazine designed to empower college women, ran a thrift and craft sale in the Student Center Thursday afternoon.Previously, the organization held four thrift sales since the fall 2022 semester, where members and external entities donated clothes to the sale.Aislinn Foran, Her Campus president and junior communications major,...
By Jan Senn It鈥檚 been almost 10 years since geography professor David Kaplan, PhD, first proposed the idea of starting an interdisciplinary environmental studies major at Kent State. Now it鈥檚 one of the fastest-growing majors at the university, with a group of enthusiastic and motivated students and alumni prepared to address the environmental issues facing our world. The following observations are from three environmental studies events this year. August 18, 2023 ENVS Opening Meeting Room 302, McGilvrey Hall 3 p.m. Matthew Arkwright, a junior in the Environmental Studies Pro...
The Anthropology Department is hosting a 鈥淪cience in Japan鈥 seminar on Wednesday, November 29th, from 4 to 5:30pm at the DI Hub, Rm 219. The guest speakers are officers from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 鈥 a Japanese government agency similar to the U.S. National Science Foundation. One of the main missions of the JSPS is to foster international scientific cooperation. Ms. Miho Yasuda and Mr. Thet Win from the Washington, D.C., office of JSPS will give presentations on the various fellowships available to graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in the sciences and huma...
Full-time 麻豆精选employees can participate in an interest-free payroll deduction program to buy Apple Computers and Accessories from the Flash Technology Center in the University Bookstore. A minimum 10% down payment is required, followed by 12 or 24 monthly payments depending on the total sale. The employee's salary verification from Payroll determines eligibility and deductions start once Payroll confirms the purchase agreement. Deductions continue until the balance is paid and must be paid in full upon separation from the university. Contact the Flash Technology Center at 330-672-159...