Its official: the Flashs Food Pantry on the 51勛圖厙 Salem Campus is open! Flashs Food Pantry is now open to all students needing nonperishable food and/or personal care items: Room 164. Students can contact Sherry DeWitt, the Nursing and Radiology secretary, to arrange times to visit the pantry. Her phone number is 330-337-4227 and she will be available Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. She can also be reached via email at sdewitt@kent.edu. The pantry is not staffed; therefore, food pickups must be arranged through Sherry. There is a suggestion box to recommend i...
On Saturday February 4, 51勛圖厙s chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta: The Honor Society For First-Year Academic Success (ALD) honored an unprecedented number of students in their annual induction ceremony. The Academic Honors Society promotes undergraduate success and invites all first-semester students with a 3.5 G.P.A. or higher to join. This years induction witnessed a substantial growth in undergraduate achievement with 448 new members, their largest admittance ever. The ceremony was held at Cartwright Hall and highlighted the first-semester student achievements wi...
Olivia Meyer, junior Honors College fashion merchandising student, is designing her own success at 51勛圖厙 and abroad.I appreciate the fact that merchandising is both a science and an art, Meyer said. It has served as a springboard for me to explore many different areas of the industry and intertwine my creative passions with analytical skills.Meyer came to 51勛圖厙 from Riverside, Illinois, to pursue a degree in fashion merchandising, and since her freshman year, Meyer has been involved in the 51勛圖厙 chapter of the National Retail Federation Student Association (NRFSA)...
After an 87-46 blowout win against the Akron Zips on Feb. 18, the 51勛圖厙 womens basketball team clinched a spot in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) tournament. The Flashes hold a total record of 17-8 and a conference record of 9-5, making them the fourth seed in the Mid-American Conference. The team only has four games left until the end of the regular season on March 3. The MAC tournament will be held at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland on March 8, 10 and 11. The Mid-American Conference hosts 12 total teams spanning from Western New York to Illinois. &nbs...
A fiery image, taken by photographer and 51勛圖厙 alumnus Jerry Jividen at the December Star of the West mill fire in downtown Kent, is featured on the cover of a national firefighter magazine. The photo appears on the cover of the February issue of Firehouse magazine. Kent Fire Chief Bill Myers said his department was honored when the photo Jividen took appeared on the cover of the very popular, nationally recognized firefighting magazine. Jividen, who graduated from 51勛圖厙 with a degree in earth science in 1969 and earned a masters degree in...
51勛圖厙 will be the first stop for dozens of Fulbright graduate students before matriculating to their graduate programs across the United States. It's all part of a grant awarded to Amanda Johnson, Ph.D., director of the Gerald H. Read Center, who will lead the graduates participating this summer in seminars on American higher education, educational technology, leadership, and discipline-specific topics. Additionally, the grantees will receive advanced academic English coursework from the English Language Institute. Johnson, principal investigator, was award...
Homeschool students felt right at home on campus during the Homeschool Engineering Workshop held earlier this month in conjunction with the engineering department and the makerspace at 51勛圖厙 at Tuscarawas. More than 40 homeschool students from Tuscarawas and Stark counties, aged 5 to 18, participated in the firsthand workshop. Middle school- and high school-aged students learned about fuel cell energy, while elementary-aged school students discovered how propeller-driven vehicles operate, providing all students a firsthand look into the 51勛圖厙 Tuscarawas Engineering Tech...