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Food allergies can be as dangerous as firearms for children who don’t have the skills to react responsibly to when they’re exposed to them. A ������ researcher with a background in safety training models — and a very personal motivation — has devised a method to help some children with food allergies stay safe, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) just granted him the funding to test it. Chris Flessner, Ph.D., associate professor of psychological sciences in Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences, recently secured a two-year, $238,000 grant for his project, “The...

The ������ alumni network will again grow its ranks this summer as more than a thousand Golden Flashes get their degrees. Kent State will hold its Summer 2019 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center. ������ will confer 1,165 degrees, including 285 associate degrees, 572 bachelor’s degrees, 228 master’s degrees, 66 doctoral degrees and 14 educational specialist degrees.  The undergraduate degree Commencement ceremony for bachelor’s and associate degrees will begin at 9:30 a.m. T...

ASHTABULA, OHIO  – Targeted at widening students’ educational opportunities in preparing them for a career in occupational therapy, the ������ at Ashtabula Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) Technology program recently announced the creation of a hybrid model, combining online learning with more convenient on-campus laboratory sessions. The new model will launch in Summer 2020. “There is an unfulfilled need for hybrid options for students,” said OTA Program Director Julie Mirabell, MS, OT/L.  “There are a lot of (OTA) programs, but ours will be the first to prov...

������ at Tuscarawas will once again hold a Nursing Career Fair on Wednesday, August 21, from noon to 2 p.m. in the lobby of the Performing Arts Center. Over 150 nursing students, including incoming students and those who will graduate May 2020, will attend the event. In addition to students, the fair is open to anyone in the community who is interested in a health care career.   “We are proud of the quality students that graduate from the program each year,” said Donna Morgan, Kent State Tuscarawas nursing skills lab coordinator. “We thought this would be a great way...

One of ������’s most prolific and renowned researchers has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences. Quan Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, joins the prestigious Brussels-based organization that includes about 660 members from 45 nations, including 65 Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners. Li’s election to the academy recognizes his profound contributions as a leading authority on the development of advanced smart materials, particularly in the field of liquid crystals. “I think I speak for many people, if not eve...

The recent death of one of the remaining members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II has a ������ associate professor recalling the vital role the female pilots played during the war. “World War II was a total war,” said Associate Professor Molly Merryman, Ph.D., the author of “Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II.” “And what that meant was that all men, women, children, citizens needed to have a war role,” Merryman told The Washington Post in the obituary for Dorothy Olsen, 103, of University Place, O...