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The Division of Human Resources’ Employee Wellness team seeks your feedback regarding current employee health and wellness at 51���� via a brief questionnaire, which will take you less than five minutes to complete if you have not done so already (originally distributed via an Employee Wellness email on 11/17/21).    All employees who complete this questionnaire by December 3, 2021, will be entered into a drawing for a $50 gift card to Target, Grubhub, Panera, or 'dinner and a movie' (winner's choice). You could be on...

Davin Ebanks, professor and head of glass, and Peter Christian Johnson, professor and head of ceramics and interim director for the School of Art, curated a regional group exhibition called “Kindred Objects: Ceramics & Glass Art from the Western Reserve.” The exhibition features more than 20 established and emerging artists and is on view at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve in Cleveland from November 4, through December 18, 2021. Read the full story. ...

Members of the 51���� community invites faculty, staff and students to join them in creating Holiday Peace Baskets on Saturday, December 11, 2021, between 9 and 11:30 a.m. at the King Kennedy Center, 6660 Garfield Road in Ravenna. If you cannot make it at 9 a.m., please come when you can. In 2019, this activity created more than 100 gift baskets for needy families in the area. COVID interrupted the program last year, but last summer a “Christmas in July” was held for the participants of the Jake’s Kids program. Donations such as kitchen a...

November 30, 2021 is Giving Tuesday and we hope you will again join us in supporting the KSU Museum.  Your gift to the Museum's General Fund allows us to continue offering FREE admission to the community every Sunday and is sincerely appreciated. Giving Tuesday begins at 12 a.m. Midnight on Tuesday, November 30. The 51���� Foundation has pledged a pool of matching funds to double the value of all donations until the money runs out. This pool of matching funds usually runs out by 10 a.m. on the morning of Giving Tuesday. The earlier you make your gift, t...

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 and a member of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, 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 an...

Stark GEODES club creates program for local elementary students Students in the Stark Campus Geology Club, the GEODES, recently made a 20-minute video presentation about rocks for the 3rd-grade classes at Judith Resnick CLC of Akron Public Schools. The teachers showed the video and then the students did a live Question and Answer session over Zoom with the class. The 3rd graders loved the video and asked excellent questions. The teachers want this to be a yearly experience.  Stark Campus Geodes; pictured from left to right: Jeremy Salvo, Sebastian Constable, Casey Worges, Ryan Codispo...

The Division of Student Affairs celebrated those who make a difference at 51���� with its first-ever Equity, Identity, and Success recognition week held November 15-19. For over 10 years, Student Accessibility Services (SAS) had a tradition of honoring staff and faculty who have aided students with disabilities through a unique recognition program. When the Equity, Identity, and Success (EIS) Pillar was formed last year by way of the new Division of Student Affairs strategic plan, an expansion of the recognition program was set into motion to include the multiple populations it serves. ...

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 ...