A new book by Kent State University at Tuscarawas Professor of Nursing Technology Dr. Mariann Harding, will be released next week on Amazon. Titled Conceptual Nursing Care Planning, the book shows how to identify clinical problems, determine expected outcomes, and choose nursing interventions—all grounded in a logical, concept-based framework. It demonstrates how the use of a concept-based approach and standardized clinical problems language makes it easier to plan effective care and to communicate with other members of the interprofessional team. Harding has been teaching nursing at the...
Julie Mazzei, Ph.D., associate professor of political science, wrote an op-ed titled "Being able to separate fact from fiction will save a government of, by, and for the people" which appeared on cleveland.com on Feb.7. To read the full article, visit: https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2021/02/being-able-to-separate-fact-from-fiction-will-save-a-government-of-by-and-for-the-people-julie-m-mazzei.html Mazzei says "Jan. 6 was a startling reminder of how fragile democracy is, and that ultimately its durability lies with us, the citizens. Public inabilit...
UPDATED INFORMATION The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced new international travel guidelines that start on December 6, 2021. All air passengers, two (2) years of age and older, flying to the United States will need to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test. This includes U.S. citizens traveling back into the United States and all other air passengers connecting through the United States. The CDC mandates the test must be taken no more than one (1) day before the first flight into the U.S. from the passenger's initial departure city or traveler...
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
Yoshi Hakutani (Professor Emeritus, English Department) has published American Haiku, Eastern Philosophies, and Modernist Poetics (Lanham, New York, London: Lexington Books), vii, 227 pp. ...
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
Alfred Guiffrida, Management & Information Systems, presented Modeling Carbon Emissions for Last Mile Delivery at the International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science (ODS 2020), Online Meeting of the Italian Operations Research Society in Rome, Italy on November 19, 2020. ...
Their StoryWe met at Mike’s Place where Dan was a line cook and I was a waitress. We continued to date while we both attended KSU. We were married the year after we graduated.The Proposal and MarriageWe were married in October and because I love Front campus in the Fall, that’s where we had the majority of our wedding day photos done. How Erin and Daniel Remain Connected to Kent StateWe both became lifetime alumni members and we continue to live in Kent. ...
Their StoryI was hired by my future wife to DJ a Punk Party at Prentice Hall. I was a Telecomm major and a DJ of some ill-repute working Thursday's Rockn' Roll night at the Crazy Horse and doing side jobs whenever I could liberate the sound gear from the audio room in the Music & Speech building without permission. (This is between us, right?) Unbeknownst to me, I was referred to the (former) Teresa Blubaugh by her matchmaking RA (Sharon Ivansic) who was a fellow Telecomm major of mine. When I was setting up for the party, my future wife offered me a beer which I declined claiming I was a ...
Stacy Alan never expected her life to revolve around magic. This 2006 graduate of Kent State University, who uses the stage name “Alan” and identifies herself a mentalist, has always had a passion for the mind and dedicated her life to studying and analyzing how the mind works, starting with her BA in psychology. Once she met her now-husband Jason Alan, a lifelong magician, her life flipped and that passion for the mind turned into a passion in tricking other’s minds - through magic. Jason, a previous collegiate athlete, slowly turned his passion from sports to art, theater and magic. Jason h...
Paige Gamin is a junior Kent State Honors College student from Medina, Ohio, majoring in finance, with minors in accounting and economics. Paige first began her internship search when she heard that her Fall Semester 2020 classes would be remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Though she has since adapted well to the remote learning atmosphere, Paige notes that, initially, it was more challenging for her to retain information from online lectures. As such, Paige decided an internship would be a great way to learn important finance principles outside of a class setting. After using Handshake,...