Kent State Clinical Psychologists Selected for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Leadership Program Two Kent State University College of Arts and Sciences faculty members, by Mary Beth Spitznagel and Alanna Updegraff, will implement a project to address mental health stigmas suffered by veterinary professionals in Northeast Ohio and provide coping techniques to use in their practices. Learn more. Kent State Hosts Virtual Teach in: "Don't Hate - Debate (And Vote)!" The Kent State community is invited to join a virtual day-long teach-in hosted by the University via Zoom titled, “Don...
Kent State University has won a Best in Class award for supplier diversity from the Greater Cleveland Partnership. This marks the third time that the university has received this award. Kent State previously won the Best in Class award for supplier diversity in 2013 and 2017. As a multiyear winner of the Best in Class awards, Kent State is also named to the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s Equity and Inclusion Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame honor is awarded to member companies and organizations that have consistently demonstrated their commitment to workplace diversity and inclusion.&n...
Warren, OH - Kent State University at Trumbull’s Eve McPherson, associate professor of Music, is helping to organize and perform in Music for Children’s free outdoor porch concert this coming Sunday to benefit Bessie's Angels in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Last spring, a COVID-19 outbreak overwhelmed a local nursing home in Geauga County, with cases among patients and healthcare staff jumping from seven to 31 overnight. Suddenly, the facility was in crisis mode… understaffed, under-equipped, and under duress. Ohman Family Living at Briar had thought they would be providing healthcare support to University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center, as a 300% surge of patients was anticipated at local hospitals. But their roles were reversed when 40 percent of their staff tested positive for COVID-19. In April 2020, UH Geauga stepped in to assist Briar wit...
Reverse-engineering the locomotion of a stem amniote – insights from a multidisciplinary approach
John Nyakatura, PhD, Comparative Zoology, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Germany
Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame Class of 2020 includes Kent State alumnus David C. Lange, BA ‘75, who interrupted his own education at Kent State to enlist in the U.S. Navy. Lange, who lives near Malvern, Ohio, told Cleveland.com earlier this year that following his freshman year at Kent State, he entered the Navy and “after my military discharge in December 1971, I returned to Kent State and majored in journalism, which led to a 40-year newspaper career.” The Canton Repository reports that Lange’s journalistic career took him to four newspapers in Northeast Ohio. He served as editor at...
Cleveland's News Channel 5 recently broadcast a story covering the Center's Cell Phone Pilot Study managed by Dr. Deric Kenne and colleagues in Computer Science. The original story can be seen HERE. ...
KENT, Ohio — It’s no secret we’re on our phones now more than ever. A Pew Research study shows smartphone usage has grown more than 50%. Now, Kent State University professors are taking advantage of our increased usage in order to study the behavior of college students during the pandemic. Ruoming Jin, Ph.D., partnered with Deric Kenne, Ph.D. to create the software needed to pull the study off, according to the Record-Courier. Read more. ...
