Kent State University at Salem recognized the academic achievements of several students during its annual Student Awards Ceremony, while also honoring the service of faculty, staff and a community partner. The awards and recipients are: Academic Awards Outstanding Student Teacher in the Field (Junior): Tabitha Hornof Outstanding Student Teacher in the Field (Senior): Kendra DeWitt Outstanding Student in Early Childhood Education: Rachel Gentile Outstanding Role Model of the Profession-Early Childhood Education: Zaviona Fountain Outstanding Student in Economics: Joanie Wood Outsta...

Congratulations! to Health and Physical Education majors Baylee DiCioccio and Addison Sharrow, co-captains of the Kent State cheerleading team that recently competed at the NCA college nationals in Daytona, Fla. Out of 28 teams, Kent State placed in the top five! The students credit some of their success to the support, motivation and mentoring they receive from faculty. They also encourage other students who may be considering participating in a sport or joining a club to do it. Read Baylee and Addison's blog post detailing their lives as students-athletes ...

Officials from Kent State University at Salem and Columbiana County Career and Technical Center recently signed an articulation agreement that provides opportunities for high school students to transition into the Salem Campus’s nursing program, beginning in the fall of 2024. This partnership is designed to be a bridge from CCCTC’s Health Academy program to the Kent State Salem’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree program, from which students graduate as registered nurses. Beginning in the fall of 2024, students accepted into the CCCTC Health Academy program can earn college cre...

Lawrence Fung, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, spoke at Kent State University on Friday, April 21, for the inaugural Neurodiversity Research Initiative Invited Lectureship, sponsored by the new Neurodiversity Research Initiative. Fung, director of Stanford’s Neurodiversity Project and Neurodiversity Clinic, spoke on the topic of “Advancing Neurodiversity Advocacy Through Education and Research.”   He began his lecture by offering numerous examples of famous people who show the traits of being neurodiverse due to...

Hello Kent State! Our names are Baylee DiCioccio and Addison Sharrow, and we are the Captains of the KSU cheerleading team. We are also both Health and Physical Education majors here at Kent State. Recently, we participated at NCA college nationals where teams from all across the nation competed in Daytona, Florida. Our competition looks different in comparison to other sports. We go up against teams in any conference. For example, a team in our division this year was Texas A&M. In addition, we face all of our competitors at one time, not individually. In order to even be able to comp...

Collaboration between institutions provides more resources for students. Kent State University's participation in the Northeast Ohio Public University Research Alliance (NEO-PURA) is creating space and time for students to innovate across Northeast Ohio. Crain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required) and Ideastream recently featured Kent State for its partnership with other Northeast Ohio. Kent State, Cleveland State University, Northeast Ohio Medical University, the University of Akron and Youngstown State University all partner alongside one another in NEO-PURA to help grow researc...

Two Kent State University College of Nursing alumnae brought home national awards from the recent National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) Annual Conference held in March in Portland, Oregon.  Marcia Cornell, who earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing at Kent State, was awarded NACNS’s 2023 Preceptor of the Year Award. A preceptor serves as a one-on-one mentor for nursing students. The award recognizes a clinical nurse specialist preceptor who has demonstrated a commitment to teach, coach and mentor critical nurse specialist students to achieve compete...