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91�ֿ�'s Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Todd Diacon announced the following leadership appointments:

University Libraries

Several 91�ֿ� professors in the College of Arts and Sciences have been selected to receive Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). REU grants are designed to provide faculty with funding to create research positions and experiences specifically for undergraduate students. These students typically come from two- or four-year institutions that may not provide access to many research opportunities.   

91�ֿ� faculty and students in the Department of Physics, in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently played a key role in using a new silicon detector technology to examine nuclear collisions that recreate the Big Bang on a tiny scale in the U.S. Department of Energy’s  in Upton, New York, on Long Island. 

Grab the sunscreen and camera. It’s summer vacation season again, and e-Inside wants to feature some of your best vacation or staycation photos, including selfies.

Submit your favorite vacation or staycation photos and a brief description to einside@kent.edu by Tuesday, July 25. Depending on the number of entries that we receive, yours might be featured in e-Inside. Please use "Summer Vacation Photos" as your email subject line.

91�ֿ�’s Institute for Applied Linguistics has received a grant for $1 million from the Gawlicki Family Foundation of Hartford, Connecticut, to fund the development of a state-of-the-art distance learning translation studies program.

Randy Roberts, a student working toward his associate’s degree in enology at 91�ֿ� at Ashtabula, uses his previous degree in biology to help supplement his education.

Poetry kiosks written for Traveling Stanzas through 91�ֿ�’s Wick Poetry Center have found their home in downtown Kent for months and recently expanded to eight Kent Campus locations.

Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., School of Information, co-presented a session titled “Promoting Neutrality or Privilege? Academic Libraries and Critical Librarianship” at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference in Wilmington, Ohio, on Oct. 28, 2016. 

Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., School of Information, was co-presenter and facilitator of a half-day workshop titled “Building Curriculum for Linked Data Education” on Oct. 15, 2016, at the DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., School of Information, published an article titled “Privacy and Trust Attitudes in the Intent to Volunteer for Data-tracking Research” in Information Research, Vol. 21, No. 4.