Peggy Nzomo, University Libraries, is the 2016 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) International Relations Committee’s “Bogle-Pratt International Library Travel Fund.” She received this award at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress held Aug. 13-19 in Columbus, Ohio. She also was one of 50 librarians who received the 2016 IFLA Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Fellows scholarship.
Peggy Nzomo, University Libraries
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ɫҹ University junior Brooke Mullins follows in the footsteps of her father and brother as a certified volunteer firefighter.
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ɫҹ University is honored to welcome Academy Award-winning actress and author Octavia Spencer as the keynote speaker for the first university-wide Commencement ceremony on May 13.
Online faculty/staff parking permit renewals will be available now through May 12. After May 12, permits can be purchased in person in the Parking Services office located in Room 123, Schwartz Center. For permit renewal assistance or for additional information, contact Parking Services at 330-672-4432 or by email at parking@kent.edu.
ɫҹ University’s Division of Student Affairs hosted its annual employee celebration on April 13 in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. The breakfast event brings the division together to celebrate the employees’ hard work and dedication throughout the year and to recognize integral campus partners.
Athena Salaba, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, presented a poster titled “User Testing of Prototype Systems in Two Different Environments: Preliminary Results” at the 18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2016, Tsukuba, Japan, Dec. 7-9, 2016. (Co-authors: Tanja Merčun and School of Library and Information Science alumna Maja Žumer, M.L.S. ’93.)
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Kevin Wolfgang
Outreach Program Manager
TechStyleLAB at the Fashion School
Kent Campus
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Leighann tomaswick
Innovation Learning Design Specialist
Center for Teaching and Learning
Kent Campus
ɫҹ University has announced that three candidates for dean and chief administrative officer of ɫҹ University's Columbiana County Campuses (ɫҹ University at East Liverpool and ɫҹ University at Salem) will be on campus over the next several weeks. Each candidate will hold a public presentation to discuss the following:
For the third consecutive year, ɫҹ University was tops among nine Mid-American Conference (MAC) institutions with eight student-athletes on the 2017 Academic All-MAC Wrestling Team.
Redshirt juniors Stephen Suglio, of Richfield, Ohio, and Chance Driscoll, Aurora, Ohio, were among just five conference wrestlers to earn the honor for a third time. The Golden Flashes are also the only team with a pair of three-time recipients.
On the weekend of March 11 and 12, the ɫҹ University Thai Ensemble traveled to Los Angeles to participate in a conference to highlight the restoration 
of the UCLA Thai music instrument collection donated in the 1960s by David Morton.
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The ɫҹ University Board of Trustees today established a comprehensive, national search to recruit and select the university’s 13th president.
The events of May 4, 1970, placed ɫҹ University in an international spotlight after a student protest against the Vietnam War and the presence of the Ohio National Guard ended in tragedy with four students losing their lives and nine others being wounded. From a perspective of nearly 50 years, ɫҹ remembers the tragedy and leads a contemporary discussion and understanding of how the community, nation and world can benefit from understanding the profound impact of the event.
