Dr. Mike Lehman, Director of the Brain Health Research Institute at Kent State, recently had the opportunity to provide biomedical science policy insights and guidance recommendations to the transition team working with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. As a Board member and representative of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), Dr. Lehman participated in discussions that included the following FASEB recommendations recently published in The Washington Update newsletter (12/17/2020): Increase Investments in Scien...

Dr. Tsunghui Tu, associate professor and program director for the early childhood education program at Kent State Salem, was recently featured on the Zippia website where she shared her thoughts about trends in her field. Zippia is a site for companies wanting to “recruit top-level staff and job seekers who want to empower their career aspirations.” The company notes that it used a data-based approach to connect job seekers and employers. In early December, the company posted an article that featured the opinions of experts about the current job market. In its introduction to the article,...

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Dear Kent State University Students, Faculty and Staff, As we prepare to return to campus for Spring Semester 2021, I want to reiterate important information about testing and our phased return plan. As part of our ongoing effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, our return to the Kent Campus will take place in stages to mitigate the spread of the virus in our community and to best ensure the health and safety of all. Our strategy for the spring semester is at the leading edge of national best practices for ensuring the health and safety of our Kent State community, and it will provide ...

Kent State University President Todd Diacon issued the following statement: “At this moment in our nation’s history, now more than ever I call on Americans to embrace and practice our university’s core value of kindness and respect in all that we do. Democracy is both a mighty force and a fragile vessel that relies on a universally shared commitment to dialogue, understanding and the truth. We assert, and rightly so, that hate has no home at Kent State University. Hate and sedition likewise should have no home in the United States of America. This morning the Brazilian television network...