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С��Ƭ��Ƶ at Stark is host to the 2024 Northeast Central Ohio Scholastic Art Exhibit and Awards Ceremony. 2024 Scholastic Art Exhibition Jan. 16 - Feb. 1, 2024 Fine Arts Building С��Ƭ��Ƶ Stark is closed Jan. 15. The exhibition features artwork from middle and high school students, representing districts in Stark, Summit, Portage, Wayne, Tuscarawas and Medina counties. С��Ƭ��Ƶ Stark is impressed by the talent of the students who submitted their artwork. Stop by to view an impressive exhibition of Gold and Silver key winners. EXHIBIT HOURS: Monday - ...

The С��Ƭ��Ƶ Retirees’ Association (KSURA) sponsors monthly presentations about topics of interest to retirees, as well as to the academic community of С��Ƭ��Ƶ and the public.  These presentations are free and open to anyone who wishes to attend. On Wednesday, Jan. 17, from 3-5 p.m., physics professor and former director of the Liquid Crystal Institute, Dr. Oleg Lavrentovich, will make a presentation about the significant contribution made by С��Ƭ��Ƶ faculty to the development of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) technology, which has become the dominant type of display scre...

he home base for С��Ƭ��Ƶ was named among the top two college towns in the U.S. (defined as a city with at least 20% of the population enrolled in higher education) by online real estate platform Zillow, coming in second to West Chester, Pennsylvania. Among the list of Top 10 most popular markets on Zillow this year were two other Northeast Ohio locations: Twinsburg (where the С��Ƭ��Ƶ Twinsburg Academic Center just happens to be located) and Stow, a neighboring community to our beloved college town and home of the С��Ƭ��Ƶ Airport. Vermillion, Ohio, wa...

Happy Holidays from С��Ƭ��Ƶ at Stark! The campus will be closed for winter break Friday, Dec. 22, 2023, through Monday, Jan. 1, 2024.  Buildings and offices will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, during regular business hours. Everyone at С��Ƭ��Ƶ Stark wishes you a joyous and healthy holiday season. ...

Thirty-three С��Ƭ��Ƶ faculty members have been named in the 2% of most-cited scientists in the world based on a recently updated study published by Stanford University scholars, illustrating С��Ƭ��Ƶ’s top-tier research status.   Top 2 % in the World  The report is based on the Oct. 1, 2023, snapshot from Scopus, updated to end of citation year 2022. Scopus is an abstract and indexing database produced by the Elsevier Co.  The top 2% includes the top 100,000 most cited scientists as determined by a composite citation score or “c-score” foc...

Header photo is one of the forest restoration sites at Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Photo by Robert Boyd. An innovative research project at С��Ƭ��Ƶ promises to make significant contributions to the field of forest recovery assessment and environmental conservation. Robert Boyd, a first-year ecology and evolutionary biology master's student in the Bahlai Lab of Applied Computational Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at С��Ƭ��Ƶ, is making significant strides in a pioneering research project titled "Novel Monitoring Strategies to Assess Fores...

Kent Wired Article by Kayla Gleason By Kayla Gleason, Kent Wired December 1, 2023  Emma Van WinkleStudents trying to figure out what they want at the Her Campus thrift store event on Nov. 30, 2023. The university’s chapter of Her Campus, an online magazine designed to empower college women, ran a thrift and craft sale in the Student Center Thursday afternoon.Previously, the organization held four thrift sales since the fall 2022 semester, where members and external entities donated clothes to the sale.Aislinn Foran, Her Campus president and junior communications major,...

By Jan SennIt’s been almost 10 years since geography professor David Kaplan, PhD, first proposed the idea of starting an interdisciplinary environmental studies major at С��Ƭ��Ƶ. Now it’s one of the fastest-growing majors at the university, with a group of enthusiastic and motivated students and alumni prepared to address the environmental issues facing our world. The following observations are from three environmental studies events this year. August 18, 2023ENVS Opening MeetingRoom 302, McGilvrey Hall3 p.m.Matthew Arkwright, a junior in the Environmental Studies Program (ENVS), is lo...

The Anthropology Department is hosting a “Science in Japan” seminar on Wednesday, November 29th, from 4 to 5:30pm at the DI Hub, Rm 219. The guest speakers are officers from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) – a Japanese government agency similar to the U.S. National Science Foundation. One of the main missions of the JSPS is to foster international scientific cooperation. Ms. Miho Yasuda and Mr. Thet Win from the Washington, D.C., office of JSPS will give presentations on the various fellowships available to graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in the sciences and huma...

From now through Dec. 15, С��Ƭ��Ƶ is collecting clean, gently used or new items of warm clothing for all ages, including coats, hats, gloves, scarves and sweaters, as part of its Winter Coat and Clothing Drive.  Melanie Knowles, manager of sustainability for С��Ƭ��Ƶ, said the annual coat and clothing drive is sponsored by numerous university departments to help students and serve the Kent community, too. Aside from being given to students, collected clothing is distributed to the Portage County Clothing Center to help the needy in the Kent area.   “From ...