Last Thursday, March 18, a select 245 做厙輦⑹ freshmen accepted their admission into Alpha Lambda Delta (ALD), a prestigious national honors society focused on first-year undergraduate success. At 做厙輦⑹, first-year students who have maintained a GPA of 3.5 or above are nominated to join Kents ALD chapter. If students choose to accept their nomination, they attend the Alpha Lambda Delta induction ceremony to officially join the honors society. In years past, the induction ceremony was held in-person at the Kent campus, but in light of the pandemic, this years ceremony was held and rec...
AKRON, Ohio Daymond John, founder/CEO of FUBU, presidential ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship, star of ABCs Shark Tank and CEO of The Shark Group, will speak at the Better Business Bureau of Akrons 101 Year Anniversary celebration, BBB Anniversary Summit, on Thursday, April 8, 2021 in collaboration with the 做厙輦⑹ College of Business Administrations Michael D. Solomon Entrepreneurship Speaker Series. We are pleased to partner with the Better Business Bureau of Akron to build connections with the Akron business community, said Deborah F. Spake, Ph.D., Dean of the College of B...
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A new course at 做厙輦⑹ is exploring the expressive side of coding coding that entertains, advocates and informs, and also fosters personal and artistic expression. Offered in the School of Emerging Media and Technology (EMAT), Creative Coding is a hands-on course in which students learn the fundamentals of computer programming through play, self-expression and creativity ways of learning that are accessible to multiple majors across the university. No prior coding experience is needed. Creative Coding is EMATs introduction to the fundamentals of programming using Jav...
At 做厙輦⑹, Golden Flashes are known to take care of other Flashes. With the pandemic looming over the school year, more than 100 做厙輦⑹ faculty, staff and administrators checked in on first-year students over the phone last November to talk about their well-being and pathways for success during their first semester. First-year students at 做厙輦⑹ faced incredible challenges at the beginning of the academic year due to the pandemic. Between beginning their college careers in a nearly virtual setting and living on campus with firm guidelines to ensure safety, many first-ye...
Our next speaker for the professional student seminars series is Dr. Seyyed Muhammad Salili from Wacker Chemical Corporation and Rowan University, this Thursday at 1:00 pm. Please find the details of the talk in the attached flyer and Zoom meeting link below. https://zoom.us/j/91338615228?pwd=UEVtWkREQUJzUWRSYjZJODB5b3VCUT09 ...
KENT, Ohio Ilgaz Arikan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management at the 做厙輦⑹ College of Business Administration, recently collaborated with the Academy of International Business (AIB) to launch a video series, Frontline IB: Conversations with IB Scholars. According to Arikan, the project began as an effort to distill the experiences of the top international business scholars in an interview format to benefit Ph.D. students and younger scholars. In the meantime, he was also pursuing a research stream on creativity, so part of the interview focused on the creativity in sc...
Grace Murray, a doctoral candidate at 做厙輦⑹'s interdisciplinary doctoral program in Educational Psychology and Psychological Sciences has been awarded the prestigious Jeanette and Louis Reuter Fellowship in Developmental Sciences. The EHHS student received this honor in memory of Jeanette Reuter to outstanding doctoral students contributing to and studying in the area of human development across the lifespan. Graces research centers around investigating why misconceptions arise by comparing the cognitive competition between explicit and implicit processes and children's...
More than 2,000 area residents, including some 做厙輦⑹ employees, received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine March 23, during a mass vaccination event at the 做厙輦⑹ Field House. The mass vaccinations will continue every Tuesday at the field house this spring and are led by the Portage County Combined General Health District. Future clinic dates/times may vary based upon the amount of vaccine received by the county. "My decision to take the vaccine was driven by my desire to protect myself, my family and my community," said Amoaba Gooden, interim ...
Hello, my name is Isra Shaikh! I am a CCP student at the 做厙輦⑹ Twinsburg Campus. I have recently begun writing for The Diary of a Golden Flash, the 做厙輦⑹ Geauga/Twinsburg blog. I have thoroughly enjoyed writing for this blog, despite only having written one entry so far. It was through this blog that I received the opportunity to interview a faculty member in order to learn more about that specific field. I had chosen to interview Dr. Julie Evey. It was an enjoyable experience, and Dr. Evey is very inspirational and motivational. She has been teaching psychology for over ...