College of Arts and Sciences
Can Fireworks Damage Mount Rushmore? Kent State Researchers Study the Stability of National Monument
For Â鶹¹û¶³ Professor of Geology Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., studying the stability of Mount Rushmore, visited by nearly three million people each year, was a lifelong dream. So, in 2013, with the help of his graduate student, Lindsay Poluga, the two of them reached out to the …
Kent Campus
National Poetry Day!
October 15 is National Poetry Day! Please join us at the May Prentice House to celebrate. "Celebrating Our Own" is an annual poetry reading hosted by the Wick Poetry Center featuring our high school and undergraduate scholarship winners. May Prentice House Tuesday, October 15, 20…
College of Arts & Sciences
New Home and Public Park for Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center
On Sept. 25-27, Â鶹¹û¶³â€™s Wick Poetry Center will celebrate its 30th anniversary with the dedication of a new home and poetry park on the Lefton Esplanade. For more information, visit www.kent.edu/wick.
College of Arts & Sciences
A Poetic Celebration
For 30 years, Â鶹¹û¶³â€™s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the College of Arts and Scie…
College of Arts & Sciences
Kent State Dedicates the New Home of the Wick Poetry Center and Poetry Park
For 30 years, Â鶹¹û¶³â€™s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the College of Arts and Scie…
Kent Campus
Kent State Dedicates the New Home of the Wick Poetry Center and Poetry Park
For 30 years, Â鶹¹û¶³â€™s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the College of Arts and Scie…
Kent Campus
Kent State’s Institute for Applied Linguistics Receives NEH Grant to Host Translation Institute
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Â鶹¹û¶³â€™s Institute for Applied Linguistics (IAL), in the College of Arts and Sciences, a $166,000 grant to host a three-week summer institute on literature in translation as a means of enhancing cross-cultural understanding f…
College of Arts & Sciences
Mindy Farmer Selected as the New Director of Kent State’s May 4 Visitors Center
Mindy Farmer, Ph.D., has been selected as the new director of the May 4 Visitors Center in the College of Arts and Sciences at Â鶹¹û¶³. She started her new position on July 1. Farmer also will teach public history courses in Kent State’s Department of History as an assistant professor …
College of Arts & Sciences
Kent State to host Midwest Jewish Studies Association Academic Conference
The Jewish Studies Program, in Â鶹¹û¶³â€™s College of Arts and Sciences, will host the 26th Annual Midwest Jewish Studies Association Academic Conference on Sept. 14 – 15 at the Kent State Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Kent. Approximately 30 scholars and professionals in Jewish…
College of Arts & Sciences
Kent State Hosts Global Adolescence Research Summer School
Â鶹¹û¶³ will host the annual 2013 European Society for Research on Adolescence (EARA)/Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Summer School from June 16-22. The summer school brings together established researchers, who are recognized for their expertise and teaching abilities, and d…
College of Arts & Sciences