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SAVE THE DATE! Dr. Kohji Hirata, Director of the Washington office for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Mr. Masahiro Ueda, International Program Associate will discuss funding opportunities to conduct short- and long-term research in Japan. These opportunities are available for students and faculty in the sciences and humanities. November 14, 2018 143 Lowry Hall 4 pm - 5 pm The JSPS is the major funding body in Japan, similar to the United State's National Science Foundation (NSF).  Following their presentation, graduate students Cody Ruiz and...

91�ֿ� at Stark will present Guitar Weekend, a three-day festival for guitar enthusiasts, Nov. 1-3. Free and open to the public, the event is a celebration of all styles of guitar playing and features some of the most respected guitarists nationwide.  Organized by 91�ֿ� Stark’s Music Department, Guitar Weekend is in its third year and blends a series of guitar workshops and concerts during the three-day span.  Featured artists will include Marc Teicholz, Mobius Trio and Andrew Stroud.  The weekend will kick off with a concert by Teicholz, a classi...

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Honors Program students organize event as a way to educate the public on the growing concern of human trafficking. Tatyana Ragon has witnessed firsthand the good that can come from a bad situation. Once she felt broken. A victim of sexual abuse, she fought to rise above. To be more than a statistic. More than a circumstance.  Ragon is not the first to call herself an overcomer, but she’s earned the title. A day doesn’t pass when she doesn’t take the pain and let it propel her to benefit those around her. One day, she’ll be a nurse and she will help women in situations like the one s...

Heart of gold. Life was just beginning for Lainey Ward when doctors worked on her heart to keep it beating. A 4-month-old baby, Ward was in the fight of her life before she knew what living really meant. Her whole world was mom and dad and the mobile dancing over her crib. Open-heart surgery and operations to fix three birth defects kept Ward pushing forward, overcoming diagnosis after diagnosis. First, the girl who would not live, did. Then, the girl who could not walk, walked. Later, the girl who found it difficult to learn would teach. Today, Ward finds herself observin...

Academy Award-winning actress is second speaker in 2018-19 Featured Speaker Series. Mira Sorvino is an Academy Award-winning actress, documentary filmmaker, United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, silence breaker and passionate voice of the #MeToo movement and lifelong champion of victims of social injustice.  Sorvino is the second presenter in this year’s Featured Speakers Series lineup. She’ll speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14. Now in its 28th year, the Featured Speakers Series is free and open to the public, but tickets are required and limited to two per person.  Tickets...

The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble will hold a reading of Malcauchon, or Six in the Rain written by Derek Walcott, directed by D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson in the African Community Theatre.  This reading will be performed by the Caribbean Theatre class Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 2:30  pm in the African Community Theatre located in room 230 Oscar Ritchie Hall on 91�ֿ� campus, 225 Terrace Drive, Kent, Ohio 44242. Derek Walcott’s Malcauchon, or Six in the Rain is the story of a woodcutter Chantal, and people gathered under a hut from the rain...

Dr. Linda Spurlock, Associate Professor of Anthropology, will lead a Spring Break study abroad course to Scotland entitled "The A, B, C's of Scotland: Anatomy, Body Snatching, and Cemeteries". Spurlock: "This course is a perfect fit for Scotland, where students in the 19th century got the best medical training in the world. Then it was difficult for anatomy teachers to obtain cadavers for dissection, and body snatchers (resurrectionists) did a profitable business.  We will explore the cemeteries of Edinburgh and Glasgow to find “anti-resurrectionist” graveyard furniture such as morts...

Note to Selfie: Start Planning for College 91�ֿ� at Stark is preparing high school juniors and seniors and their parents on how to choose the right college. Get Started: A Crash Course in College Planning, a free information session designed to facilitate a smooth transition from high school to college, will be held Thursday, Oct. 18 at 5:30 p.m. in 91�ֿ� Stark’s Main Hall Auditorium, 6000 Frank Avenue NW in Jackson Township. This event is intended for students preparing to attend any higher education institution and is not limited to 91�ֿ� Stark. ...

Dr. Linda Spurlock will be offering FACES: Human head anatomy with a forensic art focus in Florence, Italy this summer. The course number is ANTH 38095 (listed under Sciences). To learn more about the Florence Summer Institute, click here ...