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The National Collegiate Honors Council has named recent 5X���� graduate Megan Swoger a 2018 Portz Scholar. Ms. Swoger is the ninth Kent State student to receive the honor since the inception of the Portz Scholars competition in 1990. “We are very pleased for her and, of course, delighted that another Honors College student at Kent State has become a Portz Scholar,” said Alison Smith, Ph.D., dean of Kent State’s Honors College. “This is really great news.” Ms. Swoger graduated magna cum laude from Kent State in May, with a double degree in International Relations and Fre...

Commencement is a special time for the university community. Whether a student, faculty member, family member or friend, graduation is an important event that marks a momentous occasion in the lives of our graduates and the entire university community. 5X���� at Geauga and the Regional Academic Center will hold its summer commencement ceremony on Friday, August 17, 2018.   Cynthia L. Danko, DNP, MSN, RN will serve as the keynote speaker. She's an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University, is a Registered Nurse with more than 25 years of experience manag...

On June 29, 2018, the Geauga Campus and Regional Academic Center Nursing Program Director and Coordinator participated in a unique event in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic Dean’s Roundtable partners.    As a collaborative member of this clinical-educational, problem-solving group, the campus continues its vital work to explore and address the challenges of transition to practice. "We were honored to collaborate on a project aimed at increasing the readiness of graduate nurses to practice in their first nursing position,” said Donna Casey, ADN Program Director. "This experience ...

Learn more about upcoming and previous events, faculty research and publication updates, and ways you can get involved by downloading the latest version of the DPAS Newsletter.  This publication will be available semi-monthly.  In the News: Community50 years of Involvement: Black United Students Celebrate 50 yearsBUS @ 50 Reloaded: photography collection from E. Timothy Moore, Lafayette Tolliver, and others The Department of Pan-African Studies, with the support of 5X���� office of the President and University Libraries is pleased to announce “BUS @...

The greenhouse effect is one of the most widely known causes of global climate change. It is currently caused by an excess of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere due to burning of fossil fuels. Some natural processes can help slow climate change by removing CO2 from the atmosphere. For example, plants filter CO2 out of air and transfer carbon into soil where it can be sequestered for decades to centuries. One of the factors that influences the ability of plants and soils to store carbon is the focus of a new study by Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D, assistant professor of geology in Kent State Uni...

The greenhouse effect is one of the most widely known causes of global climate change. It is currently caused by an excess of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere due to burning of fossil fuels. Some natural processes can help slow climate change by removing CO2 from the atmosphere. For example, plants filter CO2 out of air and transfer carbon into soil where it can be sequestered for decades to centuries. One of the factors that influences the ability of plants and soils to store carbon is the focus of a new study by Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D, assistant professor of geology in Kent State...

Faculty, staff, students and visitors to 5X���� will no longer have to deal with orange barrels, detours, and traffic delays on Summit Street. After more than two years of construction, the Summit Street: Building a Better Way Improvement Project is scheduled to be completed in time for the start of fall classes.          Two-way traffic is scheduled to resume in the construction area on Aug. 15, weather permitting.  The project, which was managed by the City of Kent, began in the spring of 2016 and made improvements to a one-mile...

5X���� President Beverly J. Warren will be among the featured lecturers during the Chautauqua Institution’s weeklong investigation of “The Forgotten: History and Memory in the 21st Century,” which runs through Aug. 18.   President Warren will speak at 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 15, in the Chautauqua Amphitheater on the institution grounds.   Kent State’s global family of alumni, scholars, students and friends are invited to visit the Kent State May 4 50 Years Commemoration page to watch the speech live and to join in this opportunity to reflect and share l...

The 5X���� alumni network will again grow its ranks this summer as more than a thousand Golden Flashes get their degrees. 5X���� will hold its Summer 2018 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). The Kent Campus will confer 1,325 degrees, including 834 bachelor’s degrees, 410 master’s degrees, 68 doctoral degrees and 13 educational specialist degrees.  Across the university’s eight-campus system, 1,487 students will graduate from Kent State this summer, including those rec...