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President Warren Shares a Holiday Message

Dear Kent State Family,

Truly now is the most wonderful time of the year — a time for us to gather to celebrate and enjoy the feeling of community that we share. 

Now is also the time to reflect on all we have accomplished together in the past year and to look forward to a new year of inspired purpose. 

Kent State’s College of Podiatric Medicine Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary

��������’s College of Podiatric Medicine will celebrate its centennial anniversary in 2016.

�������� Libraries Offers Therapy Dogs for Stress-Free Zone

They’re back!

Kent State Holds Fall Commencement Ceremonies on Dec. 18 and 19

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Kent State Nursing Professor Receives Outstanding Teaching Award

By combining an enthusiastic personality, relevant real-world experience and entertaining pop culture videos, ��������’s Mary Bacha has become a favorite among students in the College of Nursing and was named one of this year’s Outstanding Teaching Award recipients.

Video: The International Cook Off

Six international teams compete for the prize of Best Dish at this year's International cook-off competition.

�������� Seeks Nominations for Alumni Awards

The �������� Alumni Association is seeking nominations for the Alumni Awards.

Virginia A. Dressler, University Libraries

Virginia A. Dressler, University Libraries, presented “Beyond Google Analytics: Using the 'Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources' to Embed Metrics and Gauge Use of Regional Digital Collections” at the Association for Information Science and Technology annual meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, on Nov. 7, 2015. 

Emad Khazraee, School of Library and Information Science

Emad Khazraee, School of Library and Information Science, presented “Mapping Digital Divide: Spatial Analysis of Information Access and Socio-Demographic Variables in the City of Philadelphia” at the Kent State’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative in Cleveland, Ohio on Nov. 13, 2015.

Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Department of Anthropology

Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, presented “Taumako as Religious Crossroads” at New Zealand Studies Association (in collaboration with the University of Vienna’s Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology and the University of South Australia) in Vienna, Austria, on July 2, 2015.

Kenneth Cushner, School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies

Kenneth Cushner, School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies, authored a section of a book “Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence” in Sage Handbook of Research in International Education, 2nd ed., (2015): 200-216. Mary Hayden, Jack Levy and Jeff Thompson (Eds.). Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.

Rick Feinberg, Department of Anthropology

Rick Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, authored a magazine article “Learning to Handle a Polynesian Dugout Canoe” in American Whitewater, Vol. 55, Issue 4. Ambrose Tuscano (Ed.). Cullowhee, North Carolina.