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Molly Merryman, ��ѿappUniversity associate professor of sociology and founding director of the ��ѿappWomen’s Center, has been awarded the university’s 2016 Diversity Trailblazer Award. The annual Diversity Trailblazer Award recognizes diversity pioneers associated with ��ѿappwho have displayed exemplary contributions to the area of diversity in the university. Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center also was awarded the university’s first-ever Unity Award for Diversity, which recognizes the contributions of any university department that demonstrates significant contributions to the ...

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has granted an extension on producing and filing the 1095-C tax form. As such, the 1095-C tax form is not required for full-time, benefits-eligible employees to file 2015 taxes. ��ѿappUniversity will still make the 1095-C form available to employees as soon as possible, and will file the forms with the IRS once they are completed. There is a box on the 1040 tax form that should be checked if you had “qualifying health care coverage” for all of 2015. Please direct any questions to the Benefits Office at 330-672-3107 or email benefits@kent.edu. ...

��ѿappUniversity is currently offering employees the opportunity to apply for guaranteed-issue Aflac short-term disability coverage (up to $3,000) to supplement any existing benefits. That means no medical questionnaire is required*. Short-term disability coverage is designed to provide, to persons insured, coverage for disabilities resulting from a covered accident or sickness, subject to any limitations set forth in the policy. Coverage is not provided for basic hospital, basic medical-surgical or major medical expenses. Full-time employees working 19 or more hours per week a...

Familiar Face Robin Selinger Professor Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Teach and do research in the field of soft matter theory WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: July 2005 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Catholic University of America LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: ��ѿapphas tremendous research strength in soft matter both in the Liquid Crystal Institute and across other academic departments. Soft matter includes liquid crystals, lipid...

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Steve Nameth, dean and chief administrative officer of ��ѿappUniversity at Salem, recently hosted a luncheon for business students to learn more about the insurance industry and the degree that could help get them through its doors. ��ѿappSalem offers a bachelor’s degree in insurance studies. The degree was launched in 2012 and was the first such program to be offered in Ohio in more than 30 years. It is offered as a completely online degree program, yet students can also earn the degree through a combination of online and on-campus classes at any ��ѿappcampus. Guest ...

What was once an old, abandoned woodshed on the Kent Campus from the early 1900s eventually evolved into a controversial and well-known piece of art. “Nobody was planning on a world-famous work of art,” says Brinsley Tyrrell, ��ѿappUniversity Professor Emeritus. “It happened and became famous.” Tyrrell remembers back to 1970 when his students invited to campus Robert Smithson, an artist who was exploring new territory by using the earth to create a sculpture. “He said, he always wanted to bury a building,” recalls Tyrrell. So they chose the woodshed, rented a backhoe and dropp...

Denise A. Seachrist, Ph.D., of Rootstown, Ohio, has been selected to serve as dean and chief administrative officer of ��ѿappUniversity at Stark, located in North Canton, Ohio. Seachrist has served as interim dean of ��ѿappStark, the only public university in Stark County and the largest Regional Campus of Kent State, since July 1, 2014. She began serving as the permanent dean on Feb. 1, 2016. "��ѿappUniversity at Stark is a very vibrant and exciting place, and I am extremely honored to serve as dean and chief administrative officer," Seachrist says. "I look forward to con...