Kent State University fashion design and merchandising students are taking their floral-inspired fabrics to the Cleveland Botanical Garden during this year’s Orchid Mania exhibition that is open now through March 11. The display is part of an annual school-sponsored competition, which is directed toward junior-level design students. Students are charged with conceiving of fabric and garment designs that are inspired by the exquisite flora, the orchid. Kent State faculty member Betsy Carr coordinates the event. The students, through the use of photographic images of orchids, manipulate ...
WKSU is delving into a yearlong examination of entrepreneurship in Northeast Ohio that will profile local entrepreneurs as they navigate the challenges of starting a new business and promote an innovative idea or product, thus humanizing business creation statistics. A grant from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation enabled the WKSU newsroom to hire two Kent State University interns to work with Jeff St. Clair, reporter and local host of NPR’s All Things Considered, on stories that focus on business creation in the region. Kellie Nock, senior journalism major with a women’s studie...
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Online midterm grading for all spring 2018 lower-division undergraduate courses (levels 00000, 10000, 20000) meeting in the full term (Jan. 16, 2018, through May 6, 2018) begins Feb. 5 via FlashFAST. Please remember that midterm grading applies ONLY to courses that meet for the full semester. The deadline for midterm grade submission is midnight on Tuesday, March 6. Midterm grades may not be reported after the deadline. The Grade Change workflow cannot be used to report or change midterm grades after the deadline, and the Office of the University Registrar will not accommo...
Written By: Eryn Gebacz Kent State University’s DeWeese Health Center is on a mission to create a culture of wellness on campus that incorporates body, mind, spirit and financial well-being, as well as a sense of community. To this end, the DeWeese Health Center’s Wellness Committee recently accomplished one of its wellness initiatives of creating a community garden focused on growing fresh produce, learning best-practice gardening techniques and managing stress through connection with nature. Serving on the committee are wellness ambassador Danielle Romig; health educator Sie...
Road salt choking ecosystems and contaminating water, says Kent State professor CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) Dr. Anne Jefferson is a geologist at Kent State and she says we are killing Mother Nature slowly every winter. “I have lived all over the country and I have never seen an area that applies as much salt as Northeast Ohio,” says Jefferson. She tells Cleveland 19 too much salt is being applied. We are actually salting up our streams lakes and wetlands, and it's ruining our drinking water with all this salt. Experts have been measuring the salt in bodies of water in Northe...
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What does a day in the life of a healthcare professional look like? High school students interested in a healthcare career got to find out recently when Kent State University at Ashtabula hosted a hands-on simulation experience for them. The experience also gave the students a chance to learn about the allied health programs offered at the campus. Students came from high schools and vocational schools in Ashtabula and Lake counties. There were 22 students in attendance and more than 10 on the waitlist. Robert S. Morrison Hall was transformed into the “Flash Medical Center,” a daylong healt...
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Kent State University advertising student Michael Weber balances a 4.0 GPA with a thriving passion for music – a passion that recently propelled him to win first place on MTV’s talent show Amazingness. The episode featuring Mr. Weber, ’19, aired nationally on Jan. 5. It featured six acts competing for a $10,000 prize, which Weber ultimately won for his talent of playing guitar. Music has been Mr. Weber’s passion since childhood. When he is not studying advertising in Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, he is working on music and promotion for his band The Michael Weber...