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. ...
Samantha Glass, sophomore computer science major, became ѿappUniversity at Stark’s first University Innovation Fellow, which makes her part of a national program designed to train student leaders to create entrepreneurial opportunities at their schools. Her efforts will spark new opportunities for student innovation, entrepreneurship, design and creativity on campus. Glass had forgotten how much she loved coding. She had gotten lost in larger classes on a larger campus, was not doing well academically and was just about ready to give up when she transferred to Kent State&nb...
The Executive MBA program at ѿappUniversity’s College of Business Administration has once again been ranked in the top tier of CEO Magazine’s Global Ranking. CEO Magazine has been showcasing top business schools from around the globe since it first launched in 2008. In 2012, the publication launched its annual Global MBA Rankings, profiling MBA, EMBA and Online MBA programs. This year, CEO Magazine reached out to more than 300 business schools across North America, Europe and Australia and received responses from 140 institutions – an increase of more than 100 percent compared to the p...
ѿappUniversity President Beverly Warren recently presented eight ѿappemployees with the President’s Excellence Award. Warren made surprise visits to each recipient’s office with a hearty congratulations and a check for $1,000. The President’s Excellence Award began in 2009 to recognize full-time, classified and unclassified employees who demonstrate exceptional performance in advancing one of the strategic goals of the university during the previous fiscal year. There were 128 nominations received from supervisors, peers and colleagues across Kent State’s eight campuses. Nomine...
The ѿappUniversity Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, March 9. The Board is scheduled to convene at 2:45 p.m. in the Riviera Ballroom B, first level of Aloft Cleveland Downtown, located at 1111 West 10th St., Cleveland, Ohio. Trustees will retire into executive session/working lunch from noon-1:15 p.m. in the Tactic Room to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” Board committees will meet as follows: Committee of the Whole – 9-10:45 a.m. in the Riviera Ballroom B. Academic Excellence and Student Suc...
John Quiñones of ABC’s “Primetime” and Sonia Manzano of “Sesame Street” to serve as speakers Hundreds of guests from a broad range of institutions and organizations across Ohio will converge on the ѿappUniversity campus in Kent, Ohio, for the 20th annual State of the State: Equity, Opportunity and Diversity in Ohio conference on Thursday, March 17. The daylong event, themed “Understanding Our Past, Embracing Our Future: The Intersections of Identity and Change,” will be held in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. The event will bring together professionals from the public, private, ...
Are you concerned about your body image? Do you worry about your eating behaviors? Communication studies assistant professor Dr. Jihyun Kim and an international research team dove into why college female students tend to have negative views about their body image and how it relates to health practices. “We wanted to explore this area because college is a time when women really pay attention to their look,” Kim said. The researchers’ findings were recently published in Health Care for Women International in a study titled, “Exploring cultural differences in women’s body weight perce...
UPDATE: NO TICKETS REMAIN Posted at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, March 7 For the fourth and final event in the popular Featured Speakers Series’ 25th season, ѿappUniversity at Stark will present retired American astronaut Mark Kelly. His lecture, Endeavour to Succeed, will take place on Wednesday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Timken Great Hall, located in ѿappStark’s Conference Center, 6000 Frank Avenue NW in Jackson Township. Tickets are required for this free Featured Speakers Series lecture. Tickets may be obtained by visiting the ѿappStark Information Desk ...
ѿappUniversity’s College of Business Administration will host its sixth annual Spirit of Women in Business Conference, titled “Navigating and Negotiating” on March 9 at the Kent Student Center. The conference has sold out the past three years, bringing together women from diverse professional backgrounds. Last year, more than 300 business professionals, along with undergraduate and graduate students from Northeast Ohio and beyond, attended the event. The daylong conference will be emceed by Vivian Goodman from WKSU, and includes a 60-minute keynote speech and Q&A by Deborah Kolb, ...