Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share by Email Meditative practices are bringing the Kent State community together, even from the comfort of their own home. Kent State of Wellness has moved its Meditation Across Campus sessions online, in an effort to continue the sessions despite the COVID-19 global pandemic. The Meditation Across Campus sessions were introduced by Kent State of Wellness in fall 2018 to help relieve stress and anxiety. Melissa Celko, the director of Kent State of Wellness, has been practicing meditation for decades and knows the benefits it can ...
In the heart of Kent State’s new Design Innovation (DI) Hub there will be an “Innovation Teaching Kitchen” where hospitality management students can use the latest technology and food preparation techniques to compete in culinary competitions and collaborate with their peers. Imagine hospitality management students collaborating with digital media students to produce culinary television shows in the Innovation Teaching Kitchen as passersby look on. Or nutrition students meeting with community neighbors to teach them how to prepare the fresh vegetables they’ve grown in the community garden p...
David Hassler is the director of the Wick Poetry Center, where he oversees the local and national Wick projects, works with students and collaborates with other programs across campus. After growing up in Kent, Hassler decided to return as an adult after attending college, and he’s been here ever since. In his role as the director of the Wick Poetry Center, Hassler guides Wick’s innovative community projects that offer valuable educational experiences for Kent State students and impact the community in many positive ways. Learn more about Hassler as he answers these 10 questions: Q. How ...
Kent State University students have the chance to share why it is important to them to stay home and help stop the spread of COVID-19. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine put in place a stay-at-home order on March 23 to reduce the transmission of the coronavirus. The governor’s office is asking for college students to participate in a peer-to-peer video talking about why they are choosing to stay home during this critical time and to promote the statewide #StayHomeOhio initiative. See a video Gov. DeWine shared Kent State students can create videos explaining why they choose to stay home and us...
Kent State University Geauga Campus Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program 2018 graduate Bailey Hill has been selected by The Cleveland Clinic as a nurse who will spend the next four weeks at New York Presbyterian Hospital—an area in the COVID hot zone with a shortage of nurses. When Bailey received an email from the Cleveland Clinic last week asking for volunteer nurses to help in areas with high volumes of coronavirus inpatients, she immediately replied. Bailey says, “I’m very excited for this. My gut is telling me I need to do it. I just hope I am chosen to go. My first choice is to ...
Kent State University’s Design Innovation (DI) Initiative is responding to the COVID-19 crisis by prototyping and producing face shields and masks to help fill the gap being experienced by medical personnel on the front lines. J.R. Campbell, director of the DI Initiative, is coordinating a team that consists of 25 faculty, staff and students from Kent State’s College of Public Health, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, University Libraries, Research Center for Educational Technology, as well as collaboration with the College of Aeronautics a...
n the heart of Kent State’s new Design Innovation (DI) Hub there will be an “Innovation Teaching Kitchen” where hospitality management students can use the latest technology and food preparation techniques to compete in culinary competitions and collaborate with their peers. Imagine hospitality management students collaborating with digital media students to produce culinary television shows in the Innovation Teaching Kitchen as passersby look on. Or nutrition students meeting with community neighbors to teach them how to prepare the fresh vegetables they’ve grown in the community garden pr...
The College of Architecture and Environmental Design, as part of a University-wide collaborative initiative headed by Design Innovation, is a major player in the production of face shields for first responders and health workers. The Kent State face shield design – using 3D printing in a way that provides adjustability, minimal print time, and use of available materials (plastic laser cut shields, foam tape, and hairbands in place of not to be found elastic) is a joint design effort that included many from the public health-sphere, design-sphere and the CAED, notably our own Kevin Pospichel...
Even before the coronavirus crisis up-ended daily life, college students were already juggling critical demands on their time, careers, and finances. Any interruption in their study-work-life balance could threaten their stability. COVID-19 has created a sudden and severe disturbance and now scores of students are experiencing serious setbacks. Fortunately, Kent State University has established the Kent State Emergency Grant Fund. During this unprecedented time, coupled with our move to remote instruction as of March 16, the lives of our students have been significantly disrupted. Along ...