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TV2’s news and entertainment staffs will come together Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, to produce a 25-hour live broadcast to benefit Akron Children’s Hospital. TV2, Kent State Student Media’s student-run television station, is hosting this fundraiser through Extra Life’s web platform. Extra Life is an organization that creates gaming marathons to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. ExtraLife has more than 100,00 members and serves nearly 10 million families across the nation. “It is so important to give back to the community,” said TV2 general manager Anna Huntsman, ’19. “TV2 is truly...
College of Communication & Information
David Trebing, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Communication Studies, was named one of six university-wide finalists for the 2017 Outstanding Teaching Awards. Sponsored by the Teaching Council, the Outstanding Teaching Award honors outstanding teaching by non-tenure track and part-time faculty at . The award parallels the Distinguished Teaching Awards sponsored by the Kent Alumni Association, which recognizes full-time faculty who demonstrate extraordinary teaching in the classroom and a devotion to touching the lives of students. Trebin...
The Student Nurses’ Association at Trumbull is teaming up with Trumbull Memorial Hospital to teach new parents safe sleeping habits for their infants. The student nurses presented the hospital with more than a dozen "safe sleep sacks" to use on babies and model how to put them in cribs without blankets, bumpers and toys. The sacks are wearable blankets that keep the baby warm without covering the face and interfering with breathing. Learn more about the safe sleep sacks from WFMJ. ...
Researchers to use cutting-edge therapies including amniotic tissue grafts and specialized casts The College of Podiatric Medicine is teaming up with the Cleveland Foot and Ankle Clinic to help reach a segment of the population that may not otherwise receive care for wounds that fail to heal. Beginning Oct. 24, 2017, Kent State will start enrolling patients in a clinical trial at the new Wound Care and Research Clinic inside the Cleveland Foot and Ankle Clinic in downtown Cleveland. The goal is to bring advance clinical trials and cutting-edge therapies to patients ...