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Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University’s College of Education, Health and Human Services will honor seven distinguished alumni at the seventh Annual Education, Health and Human Services Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony on Friday, Oct. 21, at 6:30 p.m. in the Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University Hotel and…
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![A sheet, signed by Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« students, employees, alumni and others, is pulled down to reveal the new Center for Architecture and Environmental Design. A sheet, signed by Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« students, employees, alumni and others, is pulled down to reveal the new Center for Architecture and Environmental Design.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/B0B_0559.jpeg?VersionId=0fd6YpyhKJCXYDvgzraWPFvpI71x8WRA)
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University celebrated the grand opening of its newest and much-anticipated building, the Center for Architecture and Environmental Design, on Oct. 7.
Visitors, alumni and friends from around the world toured the 110,191-square-foot contemporary glass-…
The 22nd annual National Depression Screening Day at Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University will be held Thursday, Oct. 6, at several Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« campuses. The event is open to all students, faculty and staff, as well as the larger community.
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![Jon Yoder, Ph.D., associate professor of architecture at Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ«, teaches a seminar in the new Center for Architecture and Environmental Design.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/1500x800_Yoder_0.jpg?VersionId=yj6Q5gEgEtDufSuvXB2Aq5pxCLp.Fx4b)
Scholar of the Month
Jon Yoder
Associate Professor of Architecture
College of Architecture and Environmental Design
2013-present
Paul DiCorleto, Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University’s vice president for research and sponsored programs, likes to say that “innovation occurs where fields collide…
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![Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University’s Academic Success Center has received the Frank L. Christ Outstanding Learning Center Award for its success as an interactive academic space for students to reinforce what they learn in the classroom. Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University’s Academic Success Center has received the Frank L. Christ Outstanding Learning Center Award for its success as an interactive academic space for students to reinforce what they learn in the classroom.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article_thumbnail/Profiles1_0.jpg?VersionId=vjjIg0iH0TQGRnyvkZrvvQqKWuPbYDMp)
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University Academic Success Center has received the Frank L. Christ Outstanding Learning Center Award for its success as an interactive academic space for students to reinforce what they learn in the classroom.
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![Virginia Albanese (far left) of FedEx Custom Critical presents a giant check to Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« President Beverly Warren. Also pictured are Interim Dean Robert Sines, Vice President Stephen Sokany and Flash. Virginia Albanese (far left) of FedEx Custom Critical presents a giant check to Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« President Beverly Warren. Also pictured are Interim Dean Robert Sines, Vice President Stephen Sokany and Flash.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/B0B_8261-web.jpg?VersionId=RUUllj52_cdlmc3Y0kh.ngd4PMk0k2LU)
Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University’s College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology will receive a $1.5 million gift from FedEx over three years. The gift will support the university’s flight program, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2017 and has outgrown current…
At the Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University Board of Trustees meeting held today (Sept. 30, 2016), the Board approved the planning and execution of a major comprehensive campaign. This campaign will be the largest in the history of Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ«, with its goals and priorities to be developed and…
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Sarah Burns, a second-year master’s student in the Nutrition and Dietetics program at Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University, shows off a tomato that she and others in the program helped to grow over the last few months. Under the direction of Nutrition and Dietetics faculty member Natalie Caine…
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![The team in Alaska is (left to right) Jonathan Mills, undergraduate geology major; Kiersten Duroe, geology M.S. candidate; Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., assistant professor of geology; and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology. The team in Alaska is (left to right) Jonathan Mills, undergraduate geology major; Kiersten Duroe, geology M.S. candidate; Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., assistant professor of geology; and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/AK_fieldteam_2016_LKC-web.jpg?VersionId=Eg47H7ZwPqAau3SDdPnJwKGKue3_psXY)
Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University professors are researching climate change in Alaska. Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professors from Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îȫ’s College of Arts and Sciences,…
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University community mourns the loss of former university president Brage Golding, Ph.D. Golding was appointed Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îȫ’s eighth president in 1977 and served in that role until his retirement in 1982.
Golding was born in 1920 in Chicago, Illinois. He earned his…