The College of Public Health is pleased to welcome two new members to our family: Freida Boland and Gretchen Thomas. Freida Boland serves as an administrative secretary. She retired from Kent State University in January 2020 with 30 years of service to various departments/colleges on campus. After retirement, Boland felt she needed a little more structure to her day and applied for a part time job in the College of Public Health. She lives in Rootstown with her husband, Don, who is also a KSU retiree, and has two sons and three grandchildren. Gretchen Thomas, M.A., serves as th...
What do you do at Kent State's College of Public Health? I am the director of Instructional Design and Quality Matters coordinator. Why do you like working at Kent State (and in the College of Public Health)? What is your favorite part of your job? The collegial network of faculty and staff. I love working with such brilliant and inspiring people who dedicate their lives to our students. The welcoming supportive environment and opportunities to participate, make CPH feel like home. I am very blessed I landed in this department. What do you like to do to unwind after a busy day? ...
Rose Penix, MPH ‘14, CAPM, serves as quality, culture and inclusion coordinator II at Summa Health and as an adjunct faculty for the College of Public Health. As a CPH alumna, Penix understands the challenges that students have to face transitioning from an academic setting to a job setting, and every year she supports more than 30 CPH students during their internship or Applied Practice Experience (APE) at Summa. “Internships and APEs are a truly valuable experience for students moving into the real world. MPH students that have completed their APE at Summa have worked on a wide range ...
The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) provides a unique and rewarding experience to participating students in the College of Public Health. The program funds promising undergraduate researchers for eight weeks during the summer months to engage in faculty supervised research and provides real-world impact and real benefits for both the student and faculty. Danielle Houston, who is a junior majoring in Public Health, recently successfully completed the SURE program this summer. “I decided to participate in the SURE program because it seemed like a great op...
KSU is among a very few colleges of public health offering students the opportunity to learn about this emergent and growing perspective. Introduction to Public Mental Health is an online course for undergraduate and graduate students that provides a broad understanding of mental health, from a public health perspective. The course provides a background about public mental health, including social inequalities and U.S. costs, the global burden of mental illness, public policy, causes, prevention, intervention. Course content also discusses the impact to specific, at times underreprese...
Wendy Weng '22, put her best on display for the world. Representing Kent State in this year's Supima Design Competition, which showcased the work of select students from eight top universities, Weng was proud to show off her collection. The annual event was held September 7, 2023, in the heart of American fashion -- New York City -- for New York Fashion Week (NYFW). "I am presenting a collection of that represents a life cycle," Weng said. "It shows the start of life and then the stages that follow until everything is dead and then new life/ hope that thrives from the past...