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Yes, 91�ֿ� employees can get discounted tickets through the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's Mega Star Ticket Program. Using the link and special promo code below, employees can purchase adult general admission tickets at the discounted rate of $17.75 (regularly $23.50)! Visit www.rockhall.com and click on “buy tickets” in the upper right corner of the page. Enter promo code Mega1 at checkout. Please direct any questions or concerns directly to Lydia Puccini at lpuccini@rockhall.org. For more employee discounts, visit www.kent.edu/bas/emp...

The 91�ֿ� Climate Survey will launch tomorrow, March 8, to assess the university’s climate. This is your opportunity to share your experience living, learning and working at 91�ֿ�. Watch out for an email tomorrow from 91�ֿ� President Beverly Warren, which will have a link to the survey. Your participation is confidential. As a thank-you for taking the survey, faculty and staff members may opt to enter to win a weekend getaway, as well as 91�ֿ� theatre and sports tickets. Students may opt to earn FLASHperks and enter to win a $250 Amazon or 91�ֿ� ...

The Fashion School at 91�ֿ� is pleased to announce that designer and business leader Josie Natori will be inducted into the Fashion School Hall of Fame on April 30. The ceremony will take place as part of the 91�ֿ� Fashion School’s Annual Fashion Show, presented the same evening. Previous inductees include Estée Lauder, Elsa Klensch, Allen Questrom, Michael Weiss, Ralph Rucci, Oscar de la Renta, Leonardo Ferragamo and Dana Buchman. Attendees of the Annual Fashion Show’s Sponsor/VIP Show held the evening of Saturday, April 30, will have the opportunity to meet Natori durin...

As part of the Summit Street: Building a Better Way Improvement Project, the westbound lane on Summit Street, from Fraternity Circle to Whitehall Boulevard, will be closed to traffic beginning today, March 7, through November. One-way, one-lane eastbound traffic will be maintained, as well as access to adjacent buildings and intersecting roadways. Detour signs will be posted to help guide members of the public. The westbound detour will be State Route 261 to State Route 43 North to Summit Street. This detour information also will be posted on message boards along Summit Street at the State Ro...

91�ֿ� professors Brian James Baer, Ph.D., and Theresa Minick, both from the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, have been awarded two federal government STARTALK grants, totaling $225,000, to support the Regents Foreign Language Academy, a summer language-immersion program for Ohio high school students. The four-week student program targets new learners of Chinese and Russian from high schools across the state of Ohio. The grants also support the Teacher Leadership Academy, a 10-day professional development program for K-1...

In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, who received her bachelor’s degree from 91�ֿ� in 2013 and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental health sciences at 91�ֿ�, was told that her father had a 10-percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus. MRSA is a type of staph bacteria resistant to antibiotics used to treat general staph infections, according to the Mayo Clinic website. Cheatham’s father became infected when a nurse touched his IV injection site with MRSA-contaminated hands. Prior to starting his IV, the nurse dropp...

The 91�ֿ� Climate Survey will launch March 8 to assess the university’s climate. All 91�ֿ� faculty, staff and students universitywide have the opportunity to share their experience living, learning and working at 91�ֿ�. Add your voice! Visit www.kent.edu/voices.     ...

91�ֿ� at Stark hosted 26 high school seniors from Wayne County Schools Career Center on Thursday, March 3. The students, who are all enrolled in the center’s Patient Care Technologies program, met with 91�ֿ� Stark’s Nursing Department faculty and toured the nursing laboratory, located in the recently opened Science and Nursing Building. Chrissy Kauth, associate lecturer of nursing, and Dawn Richards, adjunct nursing technician, spoke to the seniors about their career choice and gave them a tour of the state-of-the-art facility, which includes high-fidelity, computerized hu...

Work in Progress: Rooms 101-104: Wall framing and electric rough-in in progress. Machine shop framing. New restroom: Interior Wall framing, Electric rough-in, plumbing fixture carrier assembly rough-in. Framing in 223 has begun along with electrical rough-in. Demolition has begun in 3rd floor restrooms. Looking ahead: S.A. Comunale mobilization (HVAC contractor) Coordination drawings to be completed Continue Framing rooms 101-104, 2 nd floor and machine shop. Vent/beam fill in where existing uni vents were located. (1 st and 2nd floors). Starting 3/3. Wall patc...

Work in Progress: Augarcast pile installation is complete. Grade beams and pile caps are ongoing.  Currently complete along column line 1 on the North and working south. Started forming basement retaining wall along column line 1. Forming of Elevator #1 (North) hoistway walls has begun. Looking ahead: Continue grade beam and pile cap installation working south. Pour basement retaining wall scheduled for 3/4/2016. Pour first lift of north elevator hoistway schedule for 3/8/2016. ...