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New Face

Erin Ahrens

Academic Advisor II
Honors College
Kent Campus

91�Թ��� at Salem’s City Center received the 2016

A 91�Թ��� epidemiologist has refuted some age-old assumptions about depression

91�Թ��� Professor Richard Feinberg from the Department of Anthropology has been elected to the status of Honorary Fellow by the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.

91�Թ��� celebrated the grand opening of its newest and much-anticipated building, the Center for Architecture and Environmental Design, on Oct. 7.

Second-year students in the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program at 91�Թ��� at East Liverpool participated in the annual American Occupational Therapy Assistant Association’s Hill Day in Washington, D.C.

For those wondering what it is like to complete an internship abroad, 91�Թ��� students shared their experiences of interning in Italy during this past summer. 

Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two 91�Թ��� professors are researching climate change in Alaska. Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professors from Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences, spent a week in Fairbanks, Alaska, in June studying how climate change affects the availability of plant nutrients in arctic and sub-arctic ecosystems.

The grant teams up two of Kent State’s newest researchers.

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, presented “Richard Wright’s Achievement of Solace, Eastern Poetics, and African Philosophy” at the College Language Association Annual Convention on April 6-9, 2016, in Houston, Texas. 

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, organized and chaired a session, “The Chicago Renaissance: The Postmodern and Postcolonial Development,” at the American Literature Association Conference on May 26-29, 2016, in San Francisco, California.