College of Arts and Sciences
Speaker to Discuss the Holocaust in Poland
The ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences will host a presentation by Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Ph.D., a social anthropologist at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland on Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Cohn Jewish Student Center on the Kent Campus. …
College of Arts & Sciences
Can Fireworks Damage Mount Rushmore? ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Researchers Study the Stability of National Monument
For ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University Professor of Geology Abdul Shakoor, Ph.D., studying the stability of Mount Rushmore, visited by nearly three million people each year, was a lifelong dream. So, in 2013, with the help of his graduate student, Lindsay Poluga, the two of them reached out to the …
Kent Campus
National Poetry Day!
October 15 is National Poetry Day! Please join us at the May Prentice House to celebrate. "Celebrating Our Own" is an annual poetry reading hosted by the Wick Poetry Center featuring our high school and undergraduate scholarship winners. May Prentice House Tuesday, October 15, 20…
College of Arts & Sciences
New Home and Public Park for ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s Wick Poetry Center
On Sept. 25-27, ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’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.
College of Arts & Sciences
A Poetic Celebration
For 30 years, ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’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 College of Arts and Scie…
College of Arts & Sciences
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Dedicates the New Home of the Wick Poetry Center and Poetry Park
For 30 years, ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’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 College of Arts and Scie…
Kent Campus
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Dedicates the New Home of the Wick Poetry Center and Poetry Park
For 30 years, ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’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 College of Arts and Scie…
Kent Campus
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s Institute for Applied Linguistics Receives NEH Grant to Host Translation Institute
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’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-cultural understanding f…
College of Arts & Sciences
Mindy Farmer Selected as the New Director of ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s May 4 Visitors Center
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 ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University. She started her new position on July 1. Farmer also will teach public history courses in ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s Department of History as an assistant professor …
College of Arts & Sciences
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì to host Midwest Jewish Studies Association Academic Conference
The Jewish Studies Program, in ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’s College of Arts and Sciences, will host the 26th Annual Midwest Jewish Studies Association Academic Conference on Sept. 14 – 15 at the ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Kent. Approximately 30 scholars and professionals in Jewish…
College of Arts & Sciences