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New FACE Nathan P. Ritchey Vice President for ����Vlog�ƽ�� System Integration Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Provide overall leadership of ����Vlog�ƽ��’s Regional Campus system WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: July 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Edinboro University of Pennsylvania LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Positive attitude of faculty, staff, students ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Research university whose mission includes serving the many communities in Northeast Ohio with its Regional Campus system R...

At the ����Vlog�ƽ�� Board of Trustees meeting held on Dec. 7, 2016, the Board voted to establish the Brain Health Research Institute, further supporting significant existing research and providing additional support for researchers to collaborate across multiple departments, colleges and campuses. With more than 50 faculty members involved in brain health research, brain health is one of ����Vlog�ƽ��’s largest areas of research strength and opportunity. Notable recent grants include a $3.5 million award to study mindfulness-based stress reduction for high blood pressure and a $440...

The ����Vlog�ƽ�� website redesign project is set to usher in the spring semester with the launch of www.kent.edu and the university’s departmental websites on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. The cross-divisional redesign team and its members from our agency 160over90, Information Services and University Communications and Marketing are hard at work finishing development and home page rebuilds. Next steps and milestones include: Now-Dec. 18 – webmasters will be able to make changes to live sites, but will also need to make those revisions in the soon-to-be-new sites If h...

Study may reveal positive brain health effects of probiotics ����Vlog�ƽ��, in partnership with the Stow-Glen Retirement Village, recently received an industry-funded grant of $430,000 from i-Health (a subsidiary of DSM Nutritional Products) to examine whether taking a probiotic dietary supplement, commonly sold over the counter, can improve the mood and memory of middle-aged and older adults. John Gunstad, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at ����Vlog�ƽ��, is leading a team of researchers on the yearlong project, whi...

December 15, 2016 ����Vlog�ƽ��'s Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Diacon today announced the search for the next dean of the Honors College. Details on the search, including information on how to apply, are available at www.kent.edu/provost/search-dean-honors-college.  ...

Kevin J. Spence, a ����Vlog�ƽ�� higher education administration doctoral student, visited Cienfuegos, Cuba, to help bridge ����Vlog�ƽ��’s College of Education, Health and Human Services’ past to the present. In October, Spence discussed the Visiting Scholar program at the Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education during the second Workshop of Strategic Alliances for the Internationalization of Higher Education at the University of Cienfuegos. “The College of Education, Health and Human Services has had ties with Cuba that dates back 68 years with Dr. Gerald R...

Good morning, Drupalites, The count down to the launch of our new www.kent.edu and your departmental website is underway! The Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 launch is nearly here. As the semester winds down, the redesign team is reminding you one last time: Wrap up your website revisions to your interior website pages by midnight on Sunday, Dec. 18. No home page updates should be occurring since you provided review and approval of your website. The content freeze begins, Monday, Dec. 19, to allow for performance testing. Keep a log of revisions you need to make between now and the ...