Greetings:By the time you read this, we will have wrapped up another successful academic year on the Kent State Salem and East Liverpool campuses. The past several weeks were filled with a flurry of activities that mark the culmination of hard work by our students, faculty, administrators and staff, while also helping to define our place in the communities in which we are based.Through my vantage point during the end-of-year awards banquets, pinning ceremonies and commencement, I can step back and watch as each event unfolds, witnessing the joy of students who have reached this end of their ed...
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Faculty Profile: Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D.
Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., came to the iSchool in 2012, bringing an extensive background in research related to health care and health informatics, particularly focused on information technology and user experience. Her interests center on improving patient safety outcomes by improving the user experience of health information technology, and sociotechnical approaches to improving health outcomes for a diverse cultural population.
Trevor Watkins 鈥14 & 鈥16
M.L.I.S. '14 & M.S. User Experience '16
Teaching and Outreach Librarian, George Mason University
Kent State University has announced two substantial philanthropic gifts in support of the Global Education Endowment, which was established in 2022 in recognition of the 50th anniversary of Kent State鈥檚 education-abroad presence in Florence, Italy. The fund aims to raise $20 million to provide every incoming undergraduate student with some level of scholarship support for an education-abroad experience.鈥淎t Kent State, we believe that experiencing other cultures through education is vital to a greater understanding of the world around us,鈥 said Marcello Fantoni, Ph.D., Kent State鈥檚 vice preside...
College of the Arts
Kent, Ohio 鈥 The School of Art Collection and Galleries at Kent State University are pleased to announce a new exhibit, Sticks 鈥 Rocks 鈥 Leaves, by Natalie Petrosky. This show consists of serval paintings by the artist displayed throughout the exhibition space. The show will be on display from June 7- July 27, 2024, in the KSU Downtown Gallery, located at 141 East Main Street in Kent, Ohio. There will be a reception on June 7 from 5-7 p.m. which is free and open to the public."The imagery and symbolism of the natural world is seen throughout the paintings of Natalie Petrosky. She is heavily in...
Faculty Profile: Cathy Smith - Ph.D.
Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., joined the iSchool faculty in 2010. Her research bridges information retrieval and human-computer interaction, centering on the psychology of information seeking and query formulation in skilled information searching using computer systems. This includes the processes involved in learning to search and the design of interactive retrieval systems that enrich self-regulated learning for their users.
We recently sat down with Associate Professor Cathy Smith, Ph.D. to talk about the School of Information鈥檚 recent revision of the User Experience (UX) Master鈥檚 Degree program and the future of this field. CCI: Well, to start with, what does user experience mean, what does it encompass?Cathy Smith: User experience grew from a recognition that successful designs are centered on deep knowledge of the ultimate user of a thing. Who is using the thing and what happens to them before, during and after they use it? The thing can be tangible like a dishwasher, intangible like a contract or abstrac...