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A mix of faculty and students from the ������ School of Communication Studies (COMM) will present their latest research during the 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) May 24 to 28 in Prague. With more than 80 percent of its global communication faculty presenting papers and several other professors participating in a range of proceedings, the school's faculty members are living the conference theme, "Voices," by using theirs to prove their impact on the communication studies industry. All COMM-specific sessions are l...

After attending a conference for the Society for Applied Anthropology last spring in Santa Fe, Dr. Jeanne Marie Stumpf-Carome and Professor Mokros Natale decided to collaborate in creating a course. They share a background and love for interdisciplinary study and wanted to create a course that would offer Geauga Campus students the opportunity to experience the intellectual richness provided by interdisciplinary study. These natural connection points between disciplines support learning how to transfer and connect concepts−skills that support their lifelong learning process−and add value to...

If you compare the fields of medicine and education you would find that the former bases its practices on empirical scientific research whereas education is mainly driven by intuition. However, cognitive psychology researchers at ������ who investigate student achievement are trying to change this reality. “In fact, there are tons of empirical scientific studies already published in the field of education that don’t always go into practice in our educational system in the U.S.,” noted Dr. Katherine Rawson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at ...

    Countless hours of planning, sewing, stitching and preparation went in the ������ Fashion School’s 2018 Annual Fashion Show, “FS2: Alchemy”. The 36th annual event took place on April 27 and 28, in Rockwell Hall on Kent State’s campus. Models strutted the runway which flowed through the Rockwell Auditorium and out into the second-floor atrium, giving audience members an up-close look at the immense detail of the garments’ textures and construction.   The show featured 94 students’ designs resulting in 96 single garments and 27 total collections (two fr...

To encourage local high school girls to pursue STEM fields, ������ at Trumbull is holding its first-ever "Girls in STEM Trumbull County (TC) summer camp, Monday, June 11 through Friday, June 15. For more than 10 years, the campus has offered a one-day STEM conference in April called "The Road Not Taken." This year, the program name changed to "Girls in STEM TC." With financial support from Arconic Foundation, The Youngstown Foundation, and The Raymond John Wean Foundation, the summer camp was added. The more than 140 girls who attended the spring conference were inv...

������ at East Liverpool held its annual nursing pinning ceremony May 9, during which 19 students were recognized for receiving degrees through the associate degree in nursing (ADN) program. Janet Peterson, interim director of the ADN program, presented the Ohio Nurses Association District 3 Lori Grenich Student Nurse Award to Amelia Oaks, recognizing excellence in clinical nursing and professional awareness. Summer Black received the ADN academic award and Zachary Talbott received the ADN service award. The Student Nurses Association officers included Talbott, Black, A...