Division of University Communications and Marketing
Golden Flashes, can you believe we鈥檙e already more than halfway through this semester? Time has been flying by! We鈥檝e had an exciting month with lots of notable content. Check out our top posts from October! Instagram We kicked off the month by celebrating our Homecoming traditions! Our top-post on Instagram featured some Homecoming highlights to end the weekend of festivities. This post managed to steal a spot on our list of top ten most successful posts! View this post on Instagram &nb...
Support the Ashtabula Giving Tuesday Library Project The month of November provides an opportunity for our support of Kent State Ashtabula students to go even further. Giving Tuesday is Kent State鈥檚 most generous annual tradition. In 2021, Giving Tuesday will shine even more brilliantly as each of the featured funds support Forever Brighter, Kent State鈥檚 recently announced, $350 million comprehensive fundraising campaign, which is the most ambitious campaign in university history. This year, Kent State Ashtabula鈥檚 featured fund is the Library Transformation Pr...
According to a recent analysis from Stanford University, six members of the Kent State University Physics Faculty are among the top 2% most cited scientists in the world. Congratulations to the following faculty (alphabetical order by last name): Dr. Antal Jakli Dr. Oleg Lavrentovich Dr. Jonathan Selinger Dr. Michael Strickland Dr. Deng-Ke Yang Dr. Hiroshi Yokoyama ...
James O鈥橬eil is a 2021 Kent State Geauga graduate with a bachelor鈥檚 of science degree in nursing (BSN). As a non-traditional student, he was a bit older than many of his classmates, juggling the responsibilities of adult life while going back to school. Despite all of these additional obligations, O鈥橬eil excelled academically. Rather than patting himself on the back, he credits his Kent State Geauga instructors for propelling him to greater heights. Among his accolades, O鈥橬eil was elected to represent the Geauga Campus in a health care policy debate in 2019, he served as a nursing tutor,...
Kent State University鈥檚 Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Lamar R. Hylton, Ph.D., has had a pretty good year in one month. Hylton has been named the recipient of the NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) Region IV-East Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Senior Student Affairs Officer for 2021, named to Crain鈥檚 Cleveland Business Forty Under 40, selected as a recipient of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Diamond Honoree award and is a member of the 2022 class of the NASPA Pillars of the Profession award. According to NASPA.or...
The Rubber City Theatre in Akron, Ohio, will host the play 鈥淟ove in Reserve鈥 by career storyteller, U.S. Army veteran, award-winning journalist and playwright Eric Mansfield. At Kent State University, many know Mansfield from his role as assistant vice president for content strategy and communications in the Division of University Communications and Marketing. The show is set to run from Nov. 5-20, 2021. This love story centers around Army wife Kate Strong, who is counting down the final days for her husband Ray鈥檚 return home from the Iraq War when she views a news report of a deadl...
Part of the recent homecoming festivities on the Salem Campus included a time to observe the 10th anniversary of the opening of the James and Coralie Centofanti Hall.Several faculty and staff members, students, alumni, community members gathered to reflect on how the James and Coralie Centofanti Hall has changed lives over the last 10 years.Special guest Joe Centofanti, brother of the late James and Coralie Centofanti, shared how his father came to the United States from Italy and, through hard work and wise planning, built a successful business in the area. The business created jobs, bu...