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A hub for students with hidden disabilities. An initiative to end mental health stigma. CPR certification training. A food insecurity garden. Healthy eating workshops. Fitness programs. These are examples of projects ������ faculty, staff and students have launched within the past year to promote health and wellness within the university community. These initiatives support Kent State’s mission to become a model for a healthy campus. With support from Kent State of Wellness, the university-wide initiative to promote health and wellness, members of the Kent State community at ...

������ senior Ashley Foster has known since third grade that she wanted a career as a chef. The 20-year-old hospitality management major got a little closer to her dream over the summer when she spent a week training with celebrity chef Cat Cora at the chef’s headquarters in Santa Barbara, California. Since she was a youngster, Ms. Foster has been a fan of Chef Cora. She watched her on television, where Chef Cora is known for becoming the first female Iron Chef on the Food Network show "Iron Chef America." Meeting the Celebrity Chef As president of the Kent State student cha...

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...

Familiar Face Robin Dever Assistant Professor School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies Geauga Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I am an assistant professor and program coordinator of middle childhood education at the ������ at Geauga Campus. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 2012 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Heidelberg University LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I really enjoy the regional campus community. It allows for me to really get to know my students, what their individual needs are and provides me with the time ...

Kenneth Cushner, Professor Emeritus, School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies, and Martha Lash, School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies, co-authored the book Teacher as Traveler: Enhancing the Intercultural Development of Teachers and Students, 2nd Edition, (Rowman & Littlefield), (2018). ...

Congratulations to the following tenured faculty members who are receiving promotion: Ikpe (Justice) Akpan, Associate Professor, Tuscarawas, Management and Information Systems, College of Business Administration Rachael Blasiman, Associate Professor, Salem, Psychological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences Vinay Cheruvu, Associate Professor, Kent, College of Public Health Lisa Custer, Associate Professor, Kent, Health Sciences, College of Education, Health and Human Services Robin Dever, Associate Professor, Geauga, Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies, College of Educati...

Peter Sagal, host of one of National Public Radio’s (NPR) most popular radio programs, Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me, will speak as part of the Tuscarawas 50th Anniversary on University Drive Celebration on Monday, Sept. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center. Mr. Sagal replaces the previously announced Dave Barry who had to cancel his appearance because of a family health emergency. “While it’s unfortunate that circumstances necessitated Dave Barry to cancel his appearance, we’re excited to be able to bring someone as renowned as Peter Sagal to help us celebrate this milestone for our...