On Oct. 18, students and faculty from Kent State University Trumbull’s nursing program presented Sleep Sacks ™ for newborns at Trumbull Memorial Hospital.    Over the last year, Kent State Trumbull and its nursing faculty have focused on ways they could promote sleep safety in an effort to reduce the region’s infant mortality rate (IMR).   Ohio has one of the nation’s highest rates at just over 7.4 percent. The IMR in Trumbull County is slightly above the state average (7.6 percent) and in Mahoning County it is below (6.0 percent). By providing Sleep Sacks™, holding awa...

The School of Communication Studies (COMM) will offer a course called “Seminar: Vietnam: Messages from the Cultural Divide” during the Spring 2018 semester. COMM Associate Professor David Trebing, Ph.D., will teach the course for the third time, which will count as an upper division elective for communication students.  Trebing developed the course to examine various messages from both sides of the Vietnam War divide. The course will highlight verbal and non-verbal abstract symbols, music, film and art to cultivate a greater understanding of the history, people and persuasive messages o...

Nearly 150 attendees packed into Rm. 226 in Taylor Hall to hear international journalist Malia Politzer talk about her reporting of the refugee crisis in Niger, Italy, Germany and Turkey. Politzer was the featured speaker for the Kent State University School of Communication Studies fall Global Issues Forum which brings Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting reporters to campus who offer personal and professional perspectives on how a news story is covered. Politzer discussed her yearlong, award-winning investigative project, “Refugee Boom and Bust: A Glob...

Angela Spalsbury, Ph.D., of Chesterland, Ohio, has been selected as the new dean and chief administrative officer of Kent State University at Geauga in Burton, Ohio, and Kent State’s Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg, Ohio. A Kent State alumna, Dr. Spalsbury currently serves as professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Youngstown State University. She will join Kent State on Jan. 1, 2018. “I am sincerely looking forward to being a part of the dynamic Kent State family,” Dr. Spalsbury said. “I will work diligently with faculty, staff and students to foster a th...

Kent State University at Ashtabula Wine Degrees faculty member Ed Trebets was interviewed for a recent story for Crain's Cleveland Business, commenting on the growth of the Ohio wine industry. Trebets told the publication, "While a lot of industries took a hit during the recession, our industry was either stable or increased, depending on the winery. Coming out of that, you're getting some serious entrepreneurs putting millions into wineries. That's happening in Ohio now. My prediction is, in the next five to 10 years, it will swing toward those just wanting to invest." Trebets also comment...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Andrea Huggins Marketing & Communications Coordinator Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (888) 347-9997 andrea.huggins@aashe.org AASHE Announces 2017 Sustainability Award Winners San Antonio, Texas (October 15, 2017) – The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) is pleased to announce the 2017 winners of its annual Sustainability Awards for their outstanding achievements and progress toward sustainability. AASHE bestows its prestigious awards on the institutions and individuals th...

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, gave the keynote address “Yone Noguchi, Ezra Pound and Imagism” for the annual conference of the Yone Noguchi Society at International Christian University in Tokyo on July 1, 2017. ...

Peggy Nzomo, Ph.D, University Libraries, presented “Defining Multilingual Information Literacy (MLIL) in the Workplace: Implications for Academic Libraries in the U.S. and Canada” at the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) in Saint Malo, France, on Sept. 18, 2017. ...