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Driving through Ohio’s farmland to meet my students, I felt a calm simplicity. Bright white laundry swung in the breeze. Corn was as it should be knee-high by the fourth of July. Women in their clean, simple, self-made dresses wore their plain, solid colors pinned or buttoned closed. Their faces were scrubbed clean of makeup. Hair pulled up snug under their tell-tale white bonnets. The men I imagined to be sweltering under their straw, brimmed hats and their signature beards. They barely noticed as I pass their horse and buggy, clomping down the road, tapping out Amish Country’s heartb...

Visual Communication Design alumna Loretta Ford, M.F.A., ‘21, received the opportunity of a lifetime when she was sought out by Microsoft to illustrate a new children’s book that is part of the Phippy and Friends series.   The Microsoft series aims to explain complex computer programming concepts to children through fun and easy-to-understand stories. Each story is told by animated animal characters that audiences of all ages can relate to. Ford’s illustrations are featured in “From 00-K8s with Love.” The opportunity to partner with Microsoft ...

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2021 Dear 51���� Faculty and Staff, As we enter this annual time of gratitude, I take this moment to recognize the efforts of our hardworking and caring faculty and staff. Thank you for all you have done to make the transition back to in-person learning and working a success. As a token of our appreciation for your role in the success of this great institution, each of you will receive a $20 gift certificate for a business or businesses near your campus community. We are grateful to all the communities where our campuses are located and are pleased ...

The Kent and 51���� communities can head downtown to go ice skating starting Nov. 20, courtesy of Kent Skates presented by AMETEK.  This special attraction has been created through a partnership between the city of Kent, the 51���� Hotel and Conference Center, the Kent Area Chamber of Commerce, Main Street Kent and 51����. Kent Skates is a new, outdoor public ice skating rink that will be open from Nov. 20 through Feb. 28, Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. A celebration of the rink’s opening will be held on Dec. 2 at 5:30 p.m. Kent ...

The American Academy of Nursing (Academy) recently announced that Versie Johnson-Mallard, Ph.D., APRN-BC, FAAN, FAANP, 51���� College of Nursing dean, professor and Henderson Endowed Chair, has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors until 2024. In this role Dean Johnson-Mallard will oversee the Academy’s strategic planning and financial management.   “The Academy is pleased to announce the Fellows, elected by their peers, who will be assuming leadership positions within the organization following the conclusion of this year’s hybrid Health Policy Conference,” sa...

Assistant Professor Positions - Tenure-Track 51����’s Department of Psychological Sciences is recruiting two new tenure-track faculty members beginning Fall 2022: (1) Assistant Professor in Biological Psychology or Human Neuroscience and (2) Assistant Professor in Clinical Child or Adolescent Psychology. The department is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion through research, teaching, and mentoring. We seek candidates who embrace this philosophy.  New faculty will join a vibrant, highly research active, and collaborative department. Our faculty have demons...

Significant and historical gifts illuminate the many facets of philanthropy 51����’s season of giving launched on Nov. 1 with Giving Tuesday, a monthlong celebration of philanthropy. Now halfway through the campaign, the generosity of the 51���� community has already begun to shine.  “In the seven years since we began Giving Tuesday at 51����, it has grown into the university’s most generous annual tradition through the thousands of gifts and millions of dollars raised by our community on behalf of students and programs,” said Leigh Greenfelder, associate vice...

A 51���� professor in the College of Arts and Sciences is once again on Clarivate's list of Highly Cited Researchers in the world. Mietek Jaroniec, Ph.D., professor in 51����’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is again ranked in the top one percent of chemists and materials scientists, based on citations in Clarivate’s Web of Science database. His area of research expertise is in adsorption, chemical separations, and chemistry of nanomaterials, which he describes as an "exciting and important research field, especially design and synthesis of well-...

Lt. Col. Adrien G. Humphreys is the department chair and a professor of military science at 51����, a position that is responsible for overseeing the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. In this role, Humphreys is charged with developing, training, and ultimately commissioning students who graduate with baccalaureate degrees to fill challenging leadership roles in the United States Army. She provides oversight of the military science curriculum, leadership labs, military history and the profession of arms seminars while simultaneously supervising 10 assistant professors of ...