Kent State’s Dr. Jennifer Mapes, associate professor of geography, and Dr. Sara Koopman, assistant professor in the School of Peace & Conflict Studies, were recently awarded a $20,000 grant from Ohio Humanities to continue a collaboration with Kent State Special Collections & Archives and complete the second part of their “Mapping May 4” project. ...

Direct from Australia, The Tap Pack delivers old school cool from the new Kings of Swing at the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University at Tuscarawas on February 8 at 7:30 p.m. The Tap Pack is a high energy, tap comedy show inspired by the infamous “Rat Pack” which included the famous talents of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. With dazzling performances on stage, dressed in slick suits and equipped with sharp wit, The Tap Pack is a modern twist on the classic Rat Pack. They infuse tap dance with swing music and witty banter. The Tap Pack is a taste of a new, highly...

Sudden cardiac arrest, when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating, is the leading cause of natural death in the United States. It claims an estimated 325,000 lives each year. When the heart stops beating, every second counts to get the person the help they need. If not treated quickly, sudden cardiac arrest usually results in death. To help people survive from sudden cardiac arrest, the city of Kent has partnered with Kent State University and University Hospitals Portage Medical Center to offer PulsePoint Respond. PulsePoint Respond is a smartphone app designed to support publi...

The Communication of Science and Technology program will host the Wick Poetry Center’s Traveling Stanzas: Poets for Science exhibit Feb. 3-5 at the Engineering and Science Building atrium/lobby. This interactive exhibit explores the intersection of poetry and science. Visitors to the exhibit can learn about the Poets for Science Project and create their own poetry using the Traveling Stanzas digital toolkit. Using seminal scientific texts, visitors to the exhibit can create, print and contribute their own “erasure” poetry. Created poems then become a part of the larger conversatio...

Kindness means something different to everyone, but to Stephanie Sweany, ’05, it means making a stranger’s day a little better by simply smiling at them. Stephanie started the Canton Kindness Coalition to “make kindness contagious” in November 2018. “It’s the simple gestures in life that can turn someone’s day around. The person who looks rushed and hurried, stressed from having to run from meeting to meeting, how great would it make them feel to get a coffee,” Stephanie says. “Kindness gives people hope and strength. There’s always room for a little more kindness.” Stephanie believes it is ...

Encouraging. Respectful. Challenging. These themes emerge from numerous student nomination letters about Patrick L. Gallagher, Ph.D., associate professor of Spanish, which led to him being named a winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award. Judging by his reaction, we can add “humble” to the list of themes. “My initial feeling was awkward. When people talk about me in front of me,” Gallagher said, “it’s awkward for me.” The Distinguished Teaching Award is the highest teaching award a tenured or tenure-track professor can receive and has been sponsored by the Kent State University Alumni ...

Senior biology and pre-medicine major Jacob Wagner conducted research on new methods to lose weight involving the relationship between endocannabinoid receptors and muscle thermogenesis, both properties that regulate bodily functions and processes, such as appetite and burning calories. Under associate professor Colleen Novak, Ph.D., Wagner is continuing to research the relationship between those properties to find new weight loss methods due to the continuation of the obesity problem in America. “We want to find a method that allows the body to burn fat more efficiently, since a lot of peop...

This winter at Kent State, an art show and featured speaker on mental health will honor the life and legacy of assistant professor and artist Christopher Darling, who died June 2018. The events will take place Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, hosted by the School of Visual Communication Design, in which Darling taught: The opening of “Christopher Darling,” a retrospective of the artist and professor’s work, from 4-7 p.m. in Taylor Hall’s gallery. The show will run through March 19. A presentation by national mental health expert Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., at 7 p.m. in 306 Cartwright Hall ...

Spring Internship, Co-op & Career Fair The Spring Internship, Co-op & Career Fair is one month away. Please consider how you canshare the value of this great opportunity with your students this semester.This spring’s fair is on Thurs., Feb. 20, from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.,in theBeverly J. Warren Student Recreation and Wellness Center (SRWC). The event is open to all KSU students and alumni of all majors seeking internships, co-ops, full-time, part-time, and on-campus student employment opportunities. Benefits for students attending the fair include: Familiarizing themsel...