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Panelists spoke to a packed house of approximately 80 people at the "Redefining 'Refugee': Stories from a Global Crisis" discussion held Nov. 17.  Speakers included: Eka Anthony, a former refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo; Anuj Gurung, a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at 5X����; Brooke Davis, United States Middle Eastern Regional Vice President for International Justice Mission’s (IJM) National Student Leadership Team (NSLT) and communication studies major; Ka Thi Sa (Kathy), a former refugee from Thailand; Neema Tamang, a Nepali int...

KENT STATE TEAM CAPTURES “PEOPLE’S CHOICE” VOTE IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION On Monday, November 13, 2017, the Kent State College of Arts and Sciences and Office of Global Education hosted the MISSION: LIFE VI international innovation competition, focused on bringing together interdisciplinary teams to address major world problems. The Kent State team, whose idea focused on diverting food waste from the landfill stream and converting it into electricity, won the “People’s Choice” award, after over 300 people visited the three exhibits and voted for their favorite. This yea...

Obtaining and maintaining work-life balance is no easy task, and that is why 5X���� offers numerous options in its employee wellness program to help faculty and staff achieve this balance. Programming is available to all faculty and staff to help support their personal wellbeing. These opportunities are free to employees and have long-term benefits. Rather than teaching crash diets and short-term changes, Kent State’s employee wellness program is designed to support or make changes that will benefit individuals for the rest of their lives. Several Kent State employees who have...

Last February, you saw how Zippy betrayed our beloved Flash. Little did we know that the rivalry goes back much further, at least according to Zippy and Flash. Help us win back the Wagon Wheel by cheering on Kent State Football on Nov. 21 at the University of Akron!     ...

Jeanne R. Smith, director of the 5X���� Writing Commons, traveled with Writing Commons’ tutors from a variety of academic disciplines to make presentations at the International Writing Centers Association’s annual conference in Chicago, Illinois, from Nov. 10-13, 2017. This year's conference theme was “Tutor, Writer, Director, Spy.” Writing Commons’ tutors who attended the conference with Smith and the topic of their presentations are: Madeline Steward (undergraduate-sociology) and Rachel Whitten (undergraduate-speech pathology and audiology), “Writing Ce...

Virginia Dressler and Cindy Kristof, University Libraries, presented “The Right to be Forgotten in Digital Collections: A Survey of Practice and Policy at ARL Institutions” at the Digital Library Federation Forum 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 24, 2017. Summary: Digital librarians and digital collection managers at ARL institutions were surveyed in the spring of 2017 to investigate practices and policies surrounding takedown requests in openly accessible digital collections. The survey collected basic demographic information on the digital repositories and presented a series of h...

Familiar Face Oleg D. Lavrentovich Trustees Research Professor Liquid Crystal Institute® and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Graduate education and research in the area of soft matter and liquid crystals WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: April 1992 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Liquid Crystal Institute® ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Liquid Crystal Institute® RESIDES IN: Kent, Ohio HOMETOWN: Kyiv, Ukrai...