College of Communication & Information
The 14th annual Poynter KSU Media Ethics Workshop will prepare media professionals, including student journalists, to report responsibly on the causes and consequences of opioid abuse, addiction, treatment and death. The daylong program titled “Opioids: Ethics Emergency?” will center on media ethics and take place Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, at . It is hosted by the Kent State School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) and the Media Law Center for Ethics and Access. The team of Cincinnati Enquirer journalists who produced the Pulitzer Prize...
UPDATED 9/10/18: Please note that committee meeting times have changed. Below is the updated schedule for the Sept. 12 committee meetings. ---------------- The Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, Sept. 12. The Board is scheduled to convene at 2 p.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of University Library. Trustees will retire into executive session from 8-10 a.m. in the Urban Conference Room to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” ...
Faculty members and students from the nursing program at Kent State East Liverpool volunteered during the recent Canfield Fair by conducting free blood pressure screenings at a booth sponsored by the Ohio Nurses Association, District Three, in the fair’s Medical Building. The volunteer effort was initiated and organized by Angela Douglass, senior lecturer of nursing on the East Liverpool campus, assisted by Assistant Professor Diana Stewart. The students are enrolled in the associate degree in nursing program. Douglass noted that the East Liverpool students conducted nearly 500 blood pre...
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Alumni, Chenghui Peng (Advisor, Oleg Lavrentovich) was one of the top ten recipients of "The 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad". The award ceremony given by the Education Office of the Chinese Embassy took place at the Chinese Consulate in New York City on Saturday, April 28, 2018. The recipients worldwide were chosen for their outstanding accomplishments in any discipline. This award is considered as the highest award given by the Chinese government to the graduate students that study outside of China and th...
WKSU has announced the addition of an often-requested listening option with the debut of a pledge-free stream benefit – just in time for the station’s fall fund drive. The pledge-free content stream replaces typical fundraising talk breaks with more programming. Listeners who become sustaining members with an ongoing monthly donation will now have the ability to listen to WKSU as normal during fund drives. “Even people who say they don’t mind the fund drive tell us that once they’ve donated, they wish they could skip the fundraising messages,” WKSU Executive Director Wendy Turner...