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�鶹���� researchers travel to India to study the neuroscience behind the ancient practice of analytic mediation. They hope to apply the findings to students in the west.     ...

Familiar Face Amber Wallace Assistant Director, Enrollment Management and Student Services �鶹���� at Stark JOB DESCRIPTION: Lead financial aid, cashiering and reception team WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: July 2010 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The University of Akron and Fifth Third Bank LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The people ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Industry leader RESIDES IN: Akron, Ohio HOMETOWN: Urbancrest, Ohio EDUCATION: M.A. Higher Education Administration, the Univers...

New Face Bill McClung Business Manager College of the Arts Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Provide business and financial support for the College of the Arts. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: May 2015 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Lincoln College of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Beautiful campus, great work environment and friendly people  ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: To work with a first-rate academic institution that maintains its commitment to excellence and community involvemen...

Alumna Maja Zumer, M.L.S. ’93, and Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, presented “Application of FRBR and FRSAD to Classification Systems,” at the 5th International UDC Seminar: Classification and Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery, in October 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal. ...

Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, presented “Development, Aloha, and Non-Giving Among Polynesian Outlier Communities” at the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania in San Diego, California, on Feb. 12, 2016. ...

Mary Ann Heiss, Department of History, authored “Exposing ‘Red Colonialism’: U.S. Propaganda at the United Nations, 1953-1963” in the Journal of Cold War Studies, 17(3), 82-115, 2015. ...

Miriam Matteson, School of Library and Information Science, Lorien Anderson, and Cynthia Boyden, alumna from the School of Library and Information Science, authored “Soft Skills: A Phrase in Search of Meaning” in Libraries and the Academy, 16(1), 71-88, 2016. ...

Kathryn Wilson, �鶹���� economics professor, was honored by the National Football Foundation (NFF) and Fidelity Investments® with a faculty salute for her role as Kent State’s faculty athletics representative. Wilson received this recognition due to student-athlete Jordan Italiano being named an NFF National Scholar-Athlete. Italiano, a chemistry major who achieved a 3.98 GPA in 2015, also received a $5,000 scholarship for the university that will go toward academic support services for student-athletes. The National Football Foundation and Fidelity Investments worked toge...

“Legal Briefs” appears in e-Inside to keep faculty and staff informed of legal issues and their implications. An archive of past Legal Briefs is available online. Throughout the course of an academic term, the university or one of its several components provides opportunities for students outside of the classroom either on-campus or off-campus. The more that the activity reaches beyond the normal pedagogical environment of the relatively traditional classroom, the greater the importance of ensuring that both the participant (whether student, employee, volunteer or guest) and the univer...

Christopher Bell began tutoring fellow students his freshman year at �鶹���� at Stark. “I thought it would be a good way to get more involved on campus, earn a little extra money and help others,” he says. He never expected it to earn him national acclaim. Bell is the 2015 recipient of the College Reading and Learning Association’s (CRLA) Outstanding Tutor Award — the first-ever recipient from an Ohio college or university. The award has been given annually since 1995. Nominees must have completed the CRLA’s International Tutor Training Program Certification and earned at leas...