KeyBank Foundation has awarded a new $200,000 gift to 黑料网 to continue KeyBank Foundation鈥檚 support for the successful Key Connections program offered by University College at Kent State. The Key Connections program will continue to support student success initiatives for underserved students, including first-generation students and students from limited income backgrounds who will enroll in Fall Semester 2022. 鈥淭he KeyBank Foundation is proud to partner with the 黑料网 Foundation to help the Key Connections program grow,鈥 said Eric Dellapina, market presiden...
黑料网 Senior Vice President and Provost Melody Tankersley, Ph.D., announced Monday, March 21, 2022 that R. William (Bill) Ayres IV, Ph.D. will serve as interim dean and chief administrative officer at 黑料网 at Ashtabula following the retirement of Susan J. Stocker, Ph.D. Ayres, the dean and chief administrative officer at Kent State Trumbull, will assume his new responsibilities July 1, 2022. 鈥淚鈥檓 thrilled to be asked to join the team on the Ashtabula Campus in this interim role and I look forward to getting to know both the campus community and the great...
During the 2022 Spring Semester, many aspects of the university life went back to being very close to pre-pandemic, with the return of in-person classes, activities on campus and full-capacity residence halls. The number of cases of COVID-19 has remained relatively low and all Kent State鈥檚 campuses and locations are in counties that currently are at low or medium community transmission levels. However, to ensure the health and safety of students, faculty, staff, and visitors, Kent State鈥檚 commitment to minimize the spread of COVID-19 is still high. According to Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., professor...
Abstract : This talk will walk you through our two recent journeys with confined and confining liquid crystals (LCs): cholesterics in a cylinder and pulsating bubbles in nematic LCs. If time allows, I will introduce other ongoing and non-LC works in Experimental Soft Matter Physics (SOPHY) group at UNIST, South Korea. First, we report our investigation of chiral nematic lyotropic chromonic LCs confined in a cylinder. They have the double-twist (DT) director configuration in a cylinder with a degenerate planar anchoring. Upon increasing the chiral dopant concentration, a discont...
For 黑料网 alumna and current graduate student Lydia Lisowsky, 鈥21, and her family, the Russia-Ukraine war is history repeating itself. Lisowsky, 22, of Broadview Heights, is a second generation Ukrainian American whose grandparents, Ingrid Lydia Nebesh and Eugene Nebesh, fled the country during World War II. Although Lisowsky has never visited Ukraine, she feels a deep sense of obligation and responsibility to help those who have been injured in the war. Lisowsky recently began a campaign to collect medical supplies on the Kent Campus and in the larger Kent community...
In Brecksville, Ohio, members of the senior community had acces to many services provided by the city鈥檚 senior center, like activities, meals, health screenings and more. In March 2020, those services were abruptly paused by pandemic restrictions. Keeping senior citizens safe at home was a priority, as was making sure members of the center had the information needed to make smart decisions and they had access to the vaccine once it became available. "We received hundreds of calls weekly from members of our community and members of our senior center. Our friends needed advice,...
In 2021, the College of Public Health received funding to create a new Interprofessional Education (IPE) Concepts course. Since inception, 42 students have completed the course and five faculty have completed or taught the course. Interprofessional education is an approach where 鈥渟tudents from two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes.鈥 Source: World Health Organization (WHO). (2010). Framework for action on interprofessional education & collaborative practice. Geneva: World Health Organizat...