College of Public Health
Kent State researchers, Dr. Sheryl Chatfield, Ph.D. Candidate Saroj Bista, Dr. Deric Kenne, and Dr. Kristen Debois of Muskingham University have published their work titled "The Association Between Coping Strategies, Resilience, and Flourishing Among Students at Large U.S. University During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Research Study" in the Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal. The research examines the relationship between coping strategies identified by university students and scores on resilience and flourishing scales and to identify additional themes that descr...
Gracey Jarecke, a senior from Denver, Colorado, hones her athletic skills as a defensive specialist for the Kent State University women’s volleyball team. When she’s not making diving plays and serving aces, she focuses her time as a fashion design major with a minor in arts entrepreneurship, a member of Delta Gamma, and as a student of the Honors College. Gracey was drawn to Kent State for its incomparable fashion design program. The School of Fashion is consistently ranked as one of the top fashion schools in the world, which Gracey says has provided he...
Congratulations! to Kayon Hall, Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration. Kayon's research on undocumented students is featured in an article published by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, titled "An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students." Earlier this year, Hall published an article with the Journal for First-Generation Student Success about the lived experiences of Black undocumented students, highlighting the ways higher education has excluded them from immigration discourse and support. ...
Two College of Public Health students have been recently awarded with scholarships from the Gay Community Endowment Fund (GCEF) of the Akron Community Fundation. Congratulations Rachel LaFlame and Shawn Schreckengost Jr.! LaFlame is a graduate student pursuing an MPH. She previously served as a graduate assistant at the LGBTQ+ Center at Kent State, where she assisted in philanthropic efforts, managed marketing initiatives, oversaw the center’s interns, and presented workshops to the campus community. She now works as a healthcare administrator at a local hospital. After graduating in sp...
Bernice A. King, J.D., a global thought leader, strategist, solutionist, orator, peace advocate and CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia, will kick off Kent State University’s celebration of Black History Month by serving as the keynote speaker at the university’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, which honors the life and legacy of her father. King continues to advance her parents’ legacy of nonviolent social change through policy, advocacy, research, education and training. Under her leadership, the King Center has im...