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The 51���� fight song will blare down Main Street, the city of Kent will be flooded with blue and gold, alumni and friends will gather and reminisce about their 51���� days, fans will pack the stadium to cheer on their beloved Golden Flashes, and the entire campus will boom with 51���� pride.   51���� will celebrate 100 years of Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 6. 51���� alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and the community are invited to take part in one of the university’s long-standing traditions. Student events will occur the week leading up to H...

After fears that the Williamson House, home of 51����’s Women’s Center, might be coming down were put to rest, relief was not the only thing that the center’s staff found. The staff discovered an insatiable craving to unearth and tell the history of the Women’s Center and the women who have had an impact on the history of the university. “As I was looking through the history of the Women’s Center, it got me thinking how many stories potentially get lost if you’re not actively trying to preserve something,” says Cassandra Pegg-Kirby, director of the Women’s Center. Since...

Sept. 29: Susan Wadsworth-Booth, Head of 51���� Press, started at 51���� on Sept. 11, 2017. She is the former director of the Duquesne University Press, and has more than 25 years of experience in scholarly publishing. She also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and managed public relations and campus publications at Salem International University in West Virginia.   Visit the 51���� Press Website  Susan Wadsworth-Booth appointed as director of 51���� Press  Read The Key Reporter article about Susan Wadsworth-Boo...

Below is a message to the 51���� community that was sent to 51���� students, faculty and staff on Sept. 27. To Members of the 51���� Community: The Kent Campus will be the site of an open carry walk, organized by an outside group, on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 2-5 p.m. 51���� is in no way sponsoring or endorsing this event, nor did we invite any outside groups to campus. As you know, Ohio law permits citizens to openly carry firearms on public property, which includes 51���� and all public university campuses. 51���� policy, however, prohibit...

Medical professionals treat a wide variety of people. But what do they do when they encounter a communication barrier? What if the patient only speaks French or Spanish or American Sign Language? 51���� nursing students are learning how to navigate that situation. 51����’s College of Nursing works to provide real-world experiences for their students. Through a collaboration with the American Sign Language/English Interpreting program, the nursing students were given a unique simulated opportunity to treat a baby whose parent was deaf. The simulation is a valuable opportun...

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The 2018 Faculty/Staff Health and Resource Fair is planned for Oct. 8-11, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the DeWeese Health Center. As part of the week-long event, the 51���� Women’s Center is offering digital mammograms to qualified employees, spouses and students.   The Women’s Diagnostic Center will be using upgraded digital technology for the mammogram screenings, which will be conducted in DeWeese Health Center, Room 135, on the Kent Campus Oct. 8-11. Each participant’s health insurance will be billed or participants may self-pay. A complete screening will take only 15 minutes. &nbsp...

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Yoshinobu Hakutani, Department of English, presented “Richard Wright’s Haiku and Basho” and chaired the session “Culture and Literature of the Chicago Renaissance: Postmodern and Postcolonial Development,” at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, May 24-27, 2018. ...

Steven R. Brown, Professor Emeritus, Evaluation and Measurement, and James C. Rhoads, authored “Bibliography of Intensive Single-case Studies” in Operant Subjectivity, Vol. 39, Issue 1-2 (2017) 98-100.   ...