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On Sept. 25-27, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University’s Wick Poetry Center will celebrate its 30th anniversary with the dedication of a new home and poetry park on the Lefton Esplanade.
For more information, visit www.kent.edu/wick.
Each year, droughts cost crop farmers dearly. They experience not only a loss in yield, but also a reduction in the quality of the crops produced. But, what if new breeds of plants could be created that still thrive even without a drop of rain for weeks?
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For 30 years, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University’s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the…
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2014
12:30-2:30pm
Governance Chambers
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Student Center Room 252
For 30 years, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University’s Wick Poetry Center has been encouraging new voices – locally, regionally and nationally – and bringing poetry to people’s everyday lives through readings, publications, workshops and scholarships. Now, the Wick Poetry Center, part of the…
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University’s Institute for Applied Linguistics (IAL), in the College of Arts and Sciences, a $166,000 grant to host a three-week summer institute on literature in translation as a means of enhancing cross-…
Thursday, Oct. 9 will feature Keynote speaker Mark McDaniel, Ph.D. at the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University Hotel and Conference Center. The public is invited to attend.
The following day, Friday, Oct. 10, will include multiple presentations by world-renowned scholars, including:
Mindy Farmer, Ph.D., has been selected as the new director of the May 4 Visitors Center in the College of Arts and Sciences at Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University. She started her new position on July 1. Farmer also will teach public history courses in Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State’s Department of History as an…
The Jewish Studies Program, in Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University’s College of Arts and Sciences, will host the 26th Annual Midwest Jewish Studies Association Academic Conference on Sept. 14 – 15 at the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Ñý¼§Ö±²¥. Approximately 30 scholars and…
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University will host the annual 2013 European Society for Research on Adolescence (EARA)/Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Summer School from June 16-22. The summer school brings together established researchers, who are recognized for their expertise and…