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Oct. 7, 2014
On Sept. 25-27, Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s Wick Poetry Center will celebrate its 30th anniversary with the dedication of a new home and poetry park on the Lefton Esplanade.
For more information, visit www.kent.edu/wick.
Oct. 7, 2014
Each year, droughts cost crop farmers dearly. They experience not only a loss in yield, but also a reduction in the quality of the crops produced. But, what if new breeds of plants could be created that still thrive even without a drop of rain for weeks?
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Oct. 7, 2014
For 30 years, Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the…
Oct. 1, 2014
ISIS & The Politics of Horror
Globalization, Triangulation and the Violent Mutations of Contemporary Islamism
Tuesday, October 7th, 2014
12:30-2:30pm
Governance Chambers
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Student Center Room 252
Sept. 26, 2014
For 30 years, Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the…
Sept. 19, 2014
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s Institute for Applied Linguistics (IAL), in the College of Arts and Sciences, a $166,000 grant to host a three-week summer institute on literature in translation as a means of enhancing cross-…
Sept. 8, 2014
Thursday, Oct. 9 will feature Keynote speaker Mark McDaniel, Ph.D. at the Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ Hotel and Conference Center. The public is invited to attend.
The following day, Friday, Oct. 10, will include multiple presentations by world-renowned scholars, including:
Sept. 3, 2014
Mindy Farmer, Ph.D., has been selected as the new director of the May 4 Visitors Center in the College of Arts and Sciences at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡. She started her new position on July 1. Farmer also will teach public history courses in Kent State’s Department of History as an…
Aug. 29, 2014
The Jewish Studies Program, in Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s College of Arts and Sciences, will host the 26th Annual Midwest Jewish Studies Association Academic Conference on Sept. 14 – 15 at the Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Kent. Approximately 30 scholars and…
Aug. 28, 2014
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ will host the annual 2013 European Society for Research on Adolescence (EARA)/Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Summer School from June 16-22. The summer school brings together established researchers, who are recognized for their expertise and…