College of Arts and Sciences
Can Fireworks Damage Mount Rushmore? ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Researchers Study the Stability of National Monument
For ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Professor of Geology Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., studying the stability of Mount Rushmore, visited by nearly three million people each year, was a lifelong dream. So, in 2013, with the help of his graduate student, Lindsay Poluga, the two of them reached out to the …
Kent Campus
National Poetry Day!
October 15 is National Poetry Day! Please join us at the May Prentice House to celebrate. "Celebrating Our Own" is an annual poetry reading hosted by the Wick Poetry Center featuring our high school and undergraduate scholarship winners. May Prentice House Tuesday, October 15, 20…
College of Arts & Sciences
New Home and Public Park for ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Wick Poetry Center
On Sept. 25-27, ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Wick Poetry Center will celebrate its 30th anniversary with the dedication of a new home and poetry park on the Lefton Esplanade. For more information, visit www.kent.edu/wick.
College of Arts & Sciences
A Poetic Celebration
For 30 years, ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the College of Arts and Scie…
College of Arts & Sciences
ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Dedicates the New Home of the Wick Poetry Center and Poetry Park
For 30 years, ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the College of Arts and Scie…
Kent Campus
ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Dedicates the New Home of the Wick Poetry Center and Poetry Park
For 30 years, ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the College of Arts and Scie…
Kent Campus
ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Institute for Applied Linguistics Receives NEH Grant to Host Translation Institute
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Institute for Applied Linguistics (IAL), in the College of Arts and Sciences, a $166,000 grant to host a three-week summer institute on literature in translation as a means of enhancing cross-cultural understanding f…
College of Arts & Sciences
Mindy Farmer Selected as the New Director of ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s May 4 Visitors Center
Mindy Farmer, Ph.D., has been selected as the new director of the May 4 Visitors Center in the College of Arts and Sciences at ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½. She started her new position on July 1. Farmer also will teach public history courses in ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Department of History as an assistant professor …
College of Arts & Sciences
ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ to host Midwest Jewish Studies Association Academic Conference
The Jewish Studies Program, in ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s College of Arts and Sciences, will host the 26th Annual Midwest Jewish Studies Association Academic Conference on Sept. 14 – 15 at the ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Kent. Approximately 30 scholars and professionals in Jewish…
College of Arts & Sciences
ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Hosts Global Adolescence Research Summer School
ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ will host the annual 2013 European Society for Research on Adolescence (EARA)/Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Summer School from June 16-22. The summer school brings together established researchers, who are recognized for their expertise and teaching abilities, and d…
College of Arts & Sciences