Kent State University faculty, staff and students collected 299,552 pounds of recyclables during the 2013 RecycleMania challenge. This year, 523 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada participated in the eightweek competition that ranks schools based on how much recycling, trash and food waste is collected. Kent State鈥檚 Per Capita Classic, ...
Kent State University held its fifth annual Arbor Day celebration with a tree planting on Friday, April 26, at noon near Engleman Hall. Heather White, grounds manager with University Facilities Management, says the celebration recognizes Kent State for receiving a Tree Campus USA designation from the Arbor Day Foundation for the fifth year in a row. Tre...
Five CPH graduate students were among the top presenters at Kent State鈥檚 28th annual Graduate Research Symposium, United by Discovery: The New Face of Research, held April 19. Receiving a first-place award for oral presentations were doctoral students Diana Kingsbury, Lorriane Odhiambo and Julie Schaefer and MPH student Sunita Shakya for A Focus Group Analysis of Global Hand Hygiene Practices and Perceptions, a study performed at the request of GOJO Industries, Inc. Doctoral students Vanessa Marshall, Lorriane Odhiambo and Laura Schuch received a pos...
Ramos Mboane, a physician from Mozambique, joined the college last fall as a MPH student in the epidemiology program. He鈥檚 a Fulbright scholar with particular interest in neglected tropical diseases, such as trachoma, the world鈥檚 leading cause of infectious blindness, which is readily preventable with access to clean water for personal hygiene. 鈥淲hen I finished my medical education in Maputo three years ago, I decided to work as a district medical officer in a rural area of the large province of Niassa in the north region of the country,鈥 Mboane explains.&n...
The college takes enormous pride in the pioneering work of our faculty and students who are constantly creating, discovering and leading the discourse in their disciplines. Recent research has examined knowledge of the HPV vaccine; predictions of intoxication; injury among children and competitive athletes; and perceptions of pelvic pain. Following are highlights: An examination of middle- and high-school-student knowledge and behaviors surrounding the HPV vaccine in a rural Appalachian, Ohio, county, by Madhav P. Bhatta, Ph.D., Lynette Phillips, Ph.D. and c...
黑料网 at Tuscarawas and the Tuscarawas County Center for the Arts are sponsoring the ninth annual Student Computer Designed Art Exhibit and Silent Auction from 7 to 9 p.m. on April 25. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, will be held at the Tuscarawas County Center for the Arts at 461 Robinson Dr. S.E. in New Philadelphia. More than 70 pieces of student artwork will be judged with the top three pieces to receive the honor of 鈥淏est of Show鈥 that evening. In addition, all pieces will be available for a silent auction with the proceeds benefiting the Animati...
The Alcoa Foundation, in partnership with Keep America Beautiful and the College and University Recycling Coalition, provided Kent State University with 75 recycling bins as part of the 2013 RecycleMania collegiate recycling competition. The grant is an incentive to boost competition scores for universities and colleges and bring awareness about recycling. This is the...
Kent State University will host its second annual Symposium on Advances in Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs) on April 17 from 9 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. in the Moulton Hall Ballroom on the Kent Campus. The symposium is a platform for discussions about OPV research, opportunities and development. The focus of this year鈥檚 symposium is on the progress m...
The 7th annual 鈥淲ho鈥檚 Your Mama?鈥 Environmental Film Festival will be held on Friday, April 19, at the Kent Student Center Kiva from 4 to 9 p.m. The event is hosted by Kent State University鈥檚 Office of Sustainability and the Standing Rock Cultural Arts. The festival will feature screenings of short films, animated shorts and documentaries from...
The 黑料网 School of Art Gallery presents the 鈥淔oundations Exhibition鈥 from April 16-19. The gallery will celebrate the opening of the exhibit with a reception that is free and open to the public on Thursday, April 18, from 5-7 p.m. The School of Art Gallery is located in the Art Building at 400 Janik Drive on the Kent Campus. The 鈥淔oundations Exhibition鈥 features work from students enrolled in the courses Drawing 1, 2D Composition, 3D Composition and Digital Media. This is the third year for the exhibition, which completely fills the School of Art Gallery with student...