While hundreds of applicants hoped to be selected to participate in the Sirenland Writers Conference, only a handful of them were chosen to attend the week-long event in Positano, Italy. James Winter, an English lecturer on the Kent State Salem Campus, was one of 10 applicants selected for the fiction writing workshop last spring. To apply for the conference, Winter had to submit qualifying fiction writing. The conference limited its selection to 10 writers for each of three workshops in mixed-genre, fiction and memoir writing. “In submitting work to my peers, I was doing ex...
School administrators from Shaker Heights, Painesville, Akron’s Firestone cluster and Westlake delved into understanding leadership through a contextual and cultural lens in a recent four-day Creating Global Mindedness Leadership Institute sponsored by ºÚÁÏÍø’s College of Education, Health and Human Services. The institute was held at Kent State’s Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg. This international training if offered on every continent of the world, and only 35 facilitators worldwide are authorized to be the presenters. Facilitators for this institute were Andrea...
Dementia affects one-third of all people older than 65 years in the United States. The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive, irreversible brain disease that results in impaired cognitive functioning and other behavioral changes. Humans are considered uniquely susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease, potentially due to genetic differences, changes in brain structure and function during evolution, and an increased lifespan. However, a new study published Aug. 1 in Neurobiology of Aging provides the most extensive evidence of Alzheimer’s disease brain patholo...
As of January 1, 2017, Kaltura replaced KSUtube as Kent State’s online video platform, a service that enables users to upload, convert, store and play back video content via the Internet. The implementation began in May 2016 with many of the 48,000 video migrations occurring throughout summer. The retirement of KSUtube is bittersweet for its early adopters who have been using the application for nearly ten years, but they are pleased about what the new platform has to offer. Kaltura’s seamless integration with Blackboard Learn will benefit both faculty and students. The platform is Clo...