Anything your heart desires will come to you, especially if you put in the work. Just ask Sarah Heavner.  Heavner, who is majoring in communication and minoring in theatre, recently earned an internship with Walt Disney World for this coming fall. While there, she will dress and play the role of a costumed character on one of the largest stages in the world, Disney World.  At LaBrae High School, she dreamed of becoming an actor. Even though she had spent years participating in front of crowds in cheer, dance, and gymnastics, she lacked confidence to act on stage.  “It has...

Kent State at Salem held its annual nursing convocation and pinning ceremony during which 23 students received their nursing pins and recited the nursing pledge. All are receiving degrees this year through the Bachelor of Science in nursing (BSN) program on the Salem campus. Dr. Mary Lou Ferranto, coordinator of the BSN program at Salem, presented the 2018 class of graduates, while nursing faculty members presented various awards and the students’ pins. Special guests included Dr. David Dees, dean of the Kent State Salem Campus and Dr. Celeste Oprean, assistant dean. Several students were r...

A mix of faculty and students from the Kent State University School of Communication Studies (COMM) will present their latest research during the 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) May 24 to 28 in Prague. With more than 80 percent of its global communication faculty presenting papers and several other professors participating in a range of proceedings, the school's faculty members are living the conference theme, "Voices," by using theirs to prove their impact on the communication studies industry. All COMM-specific sessions are l...

After attending a conference for the Society for Applied Anthropology last spring in Santa Fe, Dr. Jeanne Marie Stumpf-Carome and Professor Mokros Natale decided to collaborate in creating a course. They share a background and love for interdisciplinary study and wanted to create a course that would offer Geauga Campus students the opportunity to experience the intellectual richness provided by interdisciplinary study. These natural connection points between disciplines support learning how to transfer and connect concepts−skills that support their lifelong learning process−and add value to...

If you compare the fields of medicine and education you would find that the former bases its practices on empirical scientific research whereas education is mainly driven by intuition. However, cognitive psychology researchers at Kent State University who investigate student achievement are trying to change this reality. “In fact, there are tons of empirical scientific studies already published in the field of education that don’t always go into practice in our educational system in the U.S.,” noted Dr. Katherine Rawson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at ...

    Countless hours of planning, sewing, stitching and preparation went in the Kent State University Fashion School’s 2018 Annual Fashion Show, “FS2: Alchemy”. The 36th annual event took place on April 27 and 28, in Rockwell Hall on Kent State’s campus. Models strutted the runway which flowed through the Rockwell Auditorium and out into the second-floor atrium, giving audience members an up-close look at the immense detail of the garments’ textures and construction.   The show featured 94 students’ designs resulting in 96 single garments and 27 total collections (two fr...