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Familiar Face Landon E. Hancock Associate Professor School of Peace and Conflict Studies Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I teach courses for both the School of Peace and Conflict Studies and the Department of Political Science. My main focus is on the role of ethnicity and identity in conflict generation, dynamics and resolution. This is coupled with my interest in grassroots peacebuilding, zones of peace and the role of agency in the success or failure of peacebuilding efforts. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 2006 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: University...

New Face Kathleen Norman Marketing and Public Relations Communications Specialist College of Nursing Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I am responsible for planning the College of Nursing’s special events, including, but not limited to, Convocations, Nursing Career Days, the Daisy Faculty Award and the Barbara Donaho Distinguished Leadership in Learning Award. In 2017, we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the College of Nursing, and I am planning those exciting events as well. I am happy to be able to celebrate nurses throughout the trajectory of their careers. ...

Jonathan Maletic, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at �鶹��ѡ, has received a three-year, $290,610 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help support basic research on how programmers write and develop large-scale software systems.  His project "An Infrastructure That Combines Eye Tracking Into Integrated Development Environments to Study Software Development and Program Comprehension” or more simply, iTrace, will help grow the applications of eye-tracking software. Currently, eye-tracking software is ...

Porthouse Theatre, �鶹��ѡ's summer professional theatre, was awarded a $23,615 sustainability grant by the Ohio Arts Council during the body's summer board meeting in July. The grant helps Porthouse Theatre provide high-quality theatre and arts education to the Northeast Ohio community. Specifically, the grant allows Porthouse Theatre to continue offering its academies for high school, college and international students, as well as community nights that provide free tickets to patrons that otherwise would not be able to attend the theatre. According to the Ohio Arts Council, s...

A current public health debate is whether parents should have their children vaccinated. Tara Smith, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology at �鶹��ѡ’s College of Public Health, challenges statements made by influential individuals who oppose the widespread use of vaccines and calls upon her colleagues in the scientific community to speak out to promote vaccination. The article, “Vaccine Rejection and Hesitancy: A Review and Call to Action,” is published by Oxford Press’ Open Forum Infectious Diseases. In the July 18 article, Smith presents clear and scientifically based arguments to...

WKSU has added new programs to its weekday and weekend schedules. The station maintains the Saturday storytelling block and the Sunday food block, while expanding the range of public radio listening options for Northeast Ohio.  “Our schedule reflects our community of listeners – people who really like to end each day knowing more than when they started,” says WKSU Program Director Ele Ellis. “Adjusting the programming is part of the natural evolution of WKSU.” On Mondays through Fridays at 7 p.m., WKSU airs one hour of NPR’s 1A, produced by WAMU in Washington, D.C., (the statio...

Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and �鶹��ѡ have developed a new material that can undulate and therefore propel itself forward under the influence of light. To achieve this, the scientists clamp a strip of this polymer material in a rectangular frame. When illuminated, it goes for a walk all on its own. This small device, the size of a paperclip, is the world’s first machine to convert light directly into walking, simply using one fixed light source. The researchers, including Professor Robin Selinger of Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute® ...

�鶹��ѡ at Trumbull officially announced the reinstatement of its campus athletic programs.  This fall, �鶹��ѡTrumbull will be home to women’s and men’s cross country teams. It is the first competitive sport the school has offered since 1992 when it had basketball, volleyball and golf teams. The teams will compete against area colleges as a student organization under the leadership of volunteer head coach Bill Hess.  Lance Grahn, Ph.D., dean and chief administrative officer of �鶹��ѡTrumbull, hopes cross country and other sports teams will soon compete a...