You may have heard it said, “when hard times come, notice those who remain, and the ones who disappear.” Nursing instructors can see this scenario playing out in the lives of their students at Kent State University at Geauga and the Twinsburg Academic Center. Many people pursue a career in health care because of ample opportunities to serve others while enjoying steady work, advancement, and good pay. But when a pandemic hit, people on the health care path start to have second thoughts. Is the risk worth the reward? “Many of our nursing students are already working in the health care ...
The 2021 Staff Excellence Awards celebrated shining examples of dedication to students and the campus community during a year eclipsed by the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 30, nominees gathered at the Conference Center for a small ceremony, also broadcast live on the Teams platform. “You have worked diligently to ensure our campus has not only survived – but thrived – during a global pandemic,” said Denise A. Seachrist, Ph.D., dean and chief administrative officer at Kent State University at Stark. “We eagerly look forward to a fall 2021 semester in which students will be, once a...
As seventh graders, 15 local students were directed to the Rising Scholars program (formerly known as the Rural Scholars program) because their teachers detected something special in each of them. Now, six years later, they are each ready to move onto the next phase of their lives: college, trade school, the workplace following completion of the Kent State Columbiana County Rising Scholars program. A graduation celebration was held on the Salem Campus to recognize members of the Rising Scholars program who are each graduating from their respective high schools this spring. Because o...
The Integrated Design Studio is a forum that synthesizes four years of architectural education into one project. The course tests the student’s ability to bring a variety of issues to bear; placing concepts, technical systems, material construction, and formal ambition into integrated relationships. Design work from the 2021 IDS class is exemplary of the richness possible when architecture is engaged across its broad disciplinary and cultural range. The high-quality design work from this year’s class is a testament to each student’s education and the fortitude of each group. They transfor...
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The Massillon Museum is currently showing a solo exhibition titled “Suspended Animations” featuring Rebecca Cross, M.F.A. ’07, on view through June 16. The exhibition, which is on view in the museum's Studio M gallery, includes a series of drawings on silk and a sculptural installation. “My recent sculptural work, three iterations of the Biotracings series (2018–2020), is a collection of futuristic, natural history objects, or “exprints” of imagined, extinct plant species, which considers a plausible future, where what is familiar now exists only as skins and traci...
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Art history professor emerita Carol Salus was interviewed for a new ideastream documentary about artist Roy Lichtenstein and his wife, Isabel. Salus was a family friend of the Lichtensteins. The documentary centers around the couple's time living in Cleveland and Isabel's successful career as an interior decorator, by which she financially supported her family in the 1950s. "Roy Lichtenstein's impact on the art world is well documented, but the story of his pre-Pop days in Cleveland and the woman who supported him as he developed his signature style is largely unknown," stated a summary o...
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Omid Tavakoli, M.F.A. '19 Print Media and Photography, was interviewed about his life and art for ideastream in April. The article “Equity in Art: Balancing Biracial Identity" centers around about his experience being a biracial artist. He also talks about his time studying at Kent State. Read the interview now on ideastream's website. ...
Roughly four out of 10 Americans have glossophobia, better known as having a fear of public speaking, and it is even slotted ahead of death, spiders, and a fear of heights. You can cross Lisa Sims off that list. Sims, a Psychologist in Counseling and Psychological Services at DeWeese Health Center, participated in the Toastmasters International speech contest after joining in September 2020. Participants – known as Toastmasters – begin at a smaller local level and advance based on how prolific the stories are they can tell in an impromptu fashion. The area contests, held on March 13...
Kent State alumna Kimberly Hathaway was awarded with the Joanne Rand Schwartz Cooperating Teacher of the Year Award on Tuesday, May 18th. While attending a staff meeting at Judith A. Resnik School where she teaches, Kimberly was surprised to see her former student teacher and mentee, Danielle Cardinal (Early Childhood Education, '20), deliver a brief speech about her exceptional experience as a student teacher under Kimberly's leadership. “The entire time I was part of her classroom, she never treated me like a ‘student-teacher,’ more than anything she treated ...