Year of Science
91²Ö¿â College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating a Year of Science!
New Home and Public Park for 91²Ö¿â’s Wick Poetry Center
Oct. 7, 2014
On Sept. 25-27, 91²Ö¿â’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.
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A Poetic Celebration
Oct. 7, 2014
For 30 years, 91²Ö¿â’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…
Read More »91²Ö¿â Professor Awarded Grant to Study How Plants Respond to Environmental Stress
Oct. 7, 2014
Each year, droughts cost crop farmers dearly. They experience not only a loss in yield, but also a reduction in the quality of the crops produced. But, what if new breeds of plants could be created that still thrive even without a drop of rain for weeks?
Read More »ISIS & The Politics of Horror
Oct. 1, 2014
ISIS & The Politics of Horror Globalization, Triangulation and the Violent Mutations of Contemporary Islamism Tuesday, October 7th, 2014 12:30-2:30pm Governance Chambers 91²Ö¿â Student Center Room 252
Read More »91²Ö¿â Dedicates the New Home of the Wick Poetry Center and Poetry Park
Sept. 26, 2014
For 30 years, 91²Ö¿â’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…
Read More »91²Ö¿â’s Institute for Applied Linguistics Receives NEH Grant to Host Translation Institute
Sept. 19, 2014
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded 91²Ö¿â’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-…
Read More »The Science of Learning and Education (SOLE) to Host Summit on Improving Student Scholarship
Sept. 8, 2014
Thursday, Oct. 9 will feature Keynote speaker Mark McDaniel, Ph.D. at the 91²Ö¿â Hotel and Conference Center. The public is invited to attend. The following day, Friday, Oct. 10, will include multiple presentations by world-renowned scholars, including:
Read More »Mindy Farmer Selected as the New Director of 91²Ö¿â’s May 4 Visitors Center
Sept. 3, 2014
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 91²Ö¿â. She started her new position on July 1. Farmer also will teach public history courses in 91²Ö¿â’s Department of History as an…
Read More »91²Ö¿â to host Midwest Jewish Studies Association Academic Conference
Aug. 29, 2014
The Jewish Studies Program, in 91²Ö¿â’s College of Arts and Sciences, will host the 26th Annual Midwest Jewish Studies Association Academic Conference on Sept. 14 – 15 at the 91²Ö¿â Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Kent. Approximately 30 scholars and…
Read More »91²Ö¿â Hosts Global Adolescence Research Summer School
Aug. 28, 2014
91²Ö¿â 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…
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