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Familiar Face Cathie Bachtel Senior Secretary College of Nursing Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Provide secretarial needs for the faculty and others on the third floor of Henderson Hall. I type and run tests for faculty, along with putting them into electronic form for online testing through Blackboard. I am also responsible for collecting syllabi, SSI evaluations, troubleshooting Microsoft Office and copiers. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: December 2001 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Various physician offices LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Frien...

New Face Cynthia McDowell Associate Director, Foundation Scholarships ����Vlog�ƽ�� Foundation Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Managing all foundation scholarships, including overseeing awarding and funding WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: July 2017 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The friendly atmosphere ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Opportunity to learn and grow in my field RESIDES IN: Akron, Ohio HOMETOWN: Lorain, Ohio ...

Attend a Title IX faculty and staff workshop to learn how to “See It! State It! Stop It!” Visit http://goo.gl/OSNY7x to register. This workshop counts toward one hour of Beyond Compliance training. ...

The Akron Symphony Orchestra will present Home for the Holidays with Helen Welch on Dec. 8 at E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall. The evening will feature holiday favorites and traditional carols. Come early for the Winter Carnival, featuring photo ops with Elsa from Frozen and Santa Claus, activities and music. ����Vlog�ƽ�� faculty and staff can receive a 10 percent discount on adult tickets by using the promo code KSU17 at www.akronsymphony.org. The discount is also available the night of the performance by showing your employee ID at the box office. ...

Winter wellness is just a click away. Visit the Employee Wellness Calendar and sign up for programs and activities to keep you moving now and into the New Year. You’ll find a variety of events, including “Know Your Numbers” health screenings, personal health coaching sessions, yoga, spin 50/50, total body toning, Weight Watchers at Work and a host of upcoming lunch-and-learn and financial wellness workshops.  For a quick glance at upcoming 28-day challenges around mindfulness/resilience, sleep, hydration and acquiring a fiber-rich diet, visit the Employee Wellness Challenge page. ...

Recent research has uncovered that up to 5 percent of the DNA of many modern humans originated from ancient interbreeding with Neanderthal populations. This raises the broader question of whether a species' genetic makeup includes genes brought together through occasional episodes of hybridization. Are we an amalgamation of DNA from a variety of interbreeding species? Did such hybridization happen throughout the 7 million years of human evolution? “Occasionally,” says Anthony J. Tosi, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in ����Vlog�ƽ��’s College of Arts and Sciences. To addres...

At ����Vlog�ƽ��, we are committed to ensuring the quality of our academic programs, our teaching and the learning experiences of our students. Student feedback on courses and instructors is pivotal for helping to design courses and curriculum.    Flash Survey is ����Vlog�ƽ��’s end-of-course student survey for online courses. Tell your students to visit www.kent.edu/FlashSurvey and click on “Complete Your Survey Today.” If you have questions, email flashsurvey@kent.edu.   ...

Two groups of local high schools students came to ����Vlog�ƽ�� to participate in an entrepreneurial workshop hosted by LaunchNET ����Vlog�ƽ��. The workshop was designed to increase the students’ awareness and knowledge of the venture formation process. Sixteen sophomore- and junior-level students from Junior Leadership Hudson (Western Reserve Academy and Hudson High School) and 16 junior- and senior-level students from Chagrin Falls High School visited the Kent Campus to participate in the workshop. Lynn Buchinsky, a LaunchNET venture advisor, facilitated multiple hands-on activi...

Officers from ����Vlog�ƽ�� Police Services have always had a “protect and serve” philosophy, and recently, they put this philosophy in action in order to help families in need. Each year, the department holds a Glow, Grow and Give fundraiser throughout November to raise money for a worthy cause. The staff members can donate $30, and in return, they may grow out beards (for men), dye their hair pink or blue or paint their fingernails. “These are things that are normally against department regulation, so it’s a real treat for us to be able to express ourselves,” says Officer Shaun...

����Vlog�ƽ�� at Ashtabula is partnering with Laurello Vineyards to expand the educational opportunities for students in its wine degree programs, crafting a distinctive experience where students participate in all aspects of grape growing and winemaking. The unique, blended learning culminates in the production of a new ����Vlog�ƽ�� Ashtabula labeled wine. The first two wines, a Riesling and a cabernet blend, will be released this December. Laurello Vineyards is a small boutique winery nestled in the Grand River Valley in Geneva, Ohio. The winery was established in 2002 by Kim and Larr...