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�������� Libraries will once again offer its Stress-Free Zone to all students, faculty and staff on Monday, Dec. 11, and Tuesday, Dec. 12, from 3-5 p.m. in the Garden Room at the University Library.

The �������� Alumni Association invites faculty and staff to nominate deserving alumni for the �������� Alumni Awards. Sponsored by the alumni association, the Alumni Awards recognize graduates in the area of leadership, service, character and professional development.

One student award – the Golden Flash award – also will be given to a student who promotes �������� spirit, pride and tradition.

The holidays can bring sweet memories of family traditions and wish lists miles long, but the season is also a time when people reflect on what they have and what they can give to others. �������� just wrapped up its monthlong Giving Tuesday initiative, but that does not mean the giving season is over; it has only just begun.

You can give back in various ways this holiday season by gifting your time, money or items to those in need. Several campus and local organizations offer opportunities for you to give this holiday season.

The e-Inside newsletter will take a break between semesters. The Dec. 11 issue is the last one for the 2017 Fall Semester, and e-Inside will return on Monday, Jan. 15. Copy submissions for this issue should be emailed to einside@kent.edu by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 9.

Thank you for reading and contributing to e-Inside.

Happy holidays!

The �������� Bookstore hours for Dec. 22 will be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

��������’s Giving Tuesday 2017 doubled the 2016 campaign – hitting more than $1 million just before midnight on Tuesday, Nov. 28. The single largest gift of the day was a $100,000 donation to the Fashion School Study Away Fund. From multiple student education abroad scholarships to research opportunities and poetry programs, there were more than 40 featured giving options across the �������� system from which to choose.

A pair of �������� geographers have teamed up to secure two research grants totaling more than $550,000 for separate projects to study climate change and weather patterns.

��������’s Giving Tuesday 2017 doubled the 2016 campaign – hitting more than $1 million just before midnight on Tuesday, Nov. 28. Please watch �������� President Beverly Warren's heartfelt thank you video to learn just how much of an impact donors' generous support made on Giving Tuesday.

Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, University Libraries, Department of Special Collections and Archives; Elizabeth Smith-Pryor, Department of History; and Jacky Johnson presented “WOKE Since 1960s: How Student Activism Has Shaped the Nation” at the 102nd annual meeting and conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Sept. 27, 2017.

Alfred Guiffrida, Management and Information Systems, and Jay Brown authored “Stochastic Modeling of the Last Mile Problem for Delivery Fleet Planning” in Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, 56(2), 2017, 93-108.