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������ Magazine Spring/Summer 2022 By Jan Senn On a warm but windy April day, about 40 faculty and staff gather at the squirrel statue near the ������ Library for a noontime “Wellness Walk & Talk” tour organized by the Employee Wellness office and led this day by Melanie Knowles, ������’s manager of sustainability. We expect to get some exercise and learn about recent sustainability initiatives on the Kent Campus. “A couple locations are going to require you to use your imagination, because some things don’t always happen on schedule and other things are...

������ continues to establish itself as a leader in sustainability and environmental stewardship with solar installations—to attract students in environmental studies and research, to help our planet and to save money. The university’s first solar array was installed through a power purchase agreement on the roof of the Field House on the Kent Campus. A third-party developer owned the solar array but sold the power to ������. Upon completion in summer 2012 it was the largest roof-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panel electrical system within the University System of Ohio. Ke...

Daffodil Hill, on ������’s Kent Campus, is part of the May 4, 1970 site, which was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2016. The cascade of flowers on the hill overlooking ������ Commons was part of a concept by ������ Professor Emeritus Brinsley Tyrrell that he submitted for the university’s 1985 design competition for a May 4 Memorial. Tyrrell also created the “Legend of the Iron Hoop” sculptures located behind Henderson Hall and the “Behind the Brain Plaza” near Merrill Hall. Originally, the hill displayed more than 58,000 daffodils. In the 32 years since ...

The crowd cheers. Metal clashes with metal. It’s machine against machine, each fighting to make it out of the ring unscathed. In this fight, there can only be one winner. The audience tenses at the sound of a loud bang, and bolts go flying across the floor. Then there is silence, the fight is over, just as quickly as it began.   If you’ve never attended a Battle Robot Competition, then you may be confused as to what has just been described.   Battle robots are the main focus of the CAE student organization, Xtreme Bots. Xtreme Bots, otherwise known as the ������ XBots, desi...

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share by Email Two significant environmental issues our nation faces today include invasive plant species and a lack of sustainable materials. Invasive plant species are detrimental to host environments by flushing out native species and consuming excessive amounts of resources, and the lack of sustainable materials contributes to the ongoing struggle with pollution our planet faces.  ������ students are working to turn invasive plant species into a sustainable material that can help protect the environme...

The central component of the Grind2Energy systems at ������ are larger versions of the in-sink garbage disposals found in many homes. The difference is that at ������, these units aren’t disposing of food waste, but processing it with a purpose - as the first part of a highly sustainable innovation that creates energy and high-grade fertilizer. There are currently two Grind2Energy systems on the Kent Campus. One that was built into the Design Innovation Hub as it was being constructed, and another that was more recently added to the Eastway Dining Facility through a grant f...

The protected prairie surrounding ������’s Warren Student Recreation and Wellness Center will be burned on Friday, April 29, starting around 9 a.m., to allow for new growth during the summer season.   The city of Kent Fire Department will conduct the controlled burning of the prairie, which has been a yearly practice since 2004. The prairie burn on April 29 is dependent on the weather and the Kent Fire Department not being called to an emergency. (If postponed, the prairie burn will be rescheduled for Monday, May 2, at 9 a.m.)   The burning of the prairie help...

The central component of the Grind2Energy systems at ������ are larger versions of the in-sink garbage disposals found in many homes. The difference is that at ������, these units aren’t disposing of food waste, but processing it with a purpose - as the first part of a highly sustainable innovation that creates energy and high-grade fertilizer. There are currently two Grind2Energy systems on the Kent Campus. One that was built into the Design Innovation Hub as it was being constructed, and another that was more recently added to the Eastway Dining Facility through a grant f...

After a year marked by transition, the 2022 Staff Excellence Awards celebrated the strong and resilient campus community at ������ at Stark.  “It may well be that there is light at the end of the long pandemic tunnel,” Denise A. Seachrist, Ph.D., dean and chief administrative officer, told staff gathered at the Fine Arts Building for the April 26 ceremony. “However, many of us can still see it in our rearview mirror and recognize that we have not emerged unscathed. For all that we have been through, I want to offer my sincere gratitude for your hard work, dedication and ...

Renato “Ren” Camacho, president and chief executive officer of the Akron-Canton Airport, will give the keynote address at ������ at Stark’s 2022 Commencement on May 13. Local graduates are set to take Canton’s biggest stage during the commencement ceremony at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium. Stark County’s only public university is honored to celebrate its newest graduates. “We are the county’s Hometown University, and we are happy to commemorate the occasion in a special way — in a landmark that’s synonymous with our region,” said Denise A. Seachrist, Ph.D., ������...