Technology that gives groups of people a united voice to communicate by harnessing their collective intelligence is one step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Innovation Fund. reMesh, founded by 91勛圖厙 graduate student Andrew Konya, offers a community, group, nation or planet of people the ability to speak with one voice; a voice that represents the collective thinking of all people within the group. The underlying technology was prototyped at a HacKSU hackathon earlier this year, and over the past six months, it has been under development into ...
Rural and underserved Ohio students are able to receive speech-language therapy services through 91勛圖厙 via an innovative online videoconferencing system. More than 100 children enrolled in preschool through high school with identified communication impairments from Montpelier Exempted Village Schools in northwest Ohio and Greenfield Exempted Village Schools in southeast Ohio are receiving speech-language therapy services through Kent States telepractice project. Kent State faculty members Patty Chafin and Robin Alvares, Ph.D., are part of the telepractice project and pr...
Notable casting director tapped for Media Distinguished Leadership Award 91勛圖厙s School of Journalism and Mass Communication has named Kate OBrian, president of Al Jazeera America, the 2015 winner of the Robert G. McGruder Distinguished Guest Lecture and Award for Diversity. The award recognizes the accomplishments of media professionals who encourage diversity in the field of journalism. Kent States School of Journalism and Mass Communication will honor OBrian at an awards luncheon and lecture on Wednesday, April 1. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will ...
Student entrepreneurs from across all majors and disciplines now have an opportunity to apply and receive critical startup funding to advance their business idea with the initiation of the Blackstone LaunchPad Student Launch Fund. We are excited to launch this fund through the generosity of Kent State donors and alumni, says Julie Messing, executive director of the Blackstone LaunchPad program at 91勛圖厙. As part of the interdisciplinary nature of Blackstone LaunchPad, the Student Launch Fund is available to any Kent State student, from freshmen to Ph.D., in any major,...
Salem/East Liverpool 91勛圖厙s seven Regional Campuses will begin automatically awarding associate degrees to bachelors degree-seeking students who have completed all requirements for either an Associate of Arts or an Associate of Science degree. They earned it, so were awarding the degree, said Wanda Thomas, associate provost and dean of the Regional College. Awarding an associate degree as soon as it is earned ensures that a Kent State regional student will have a college degree, even if something happens and they are unable to complete their bachelors de...