The Employee Wellness office is pleased to present its first-ever, fall employee wellness speaker series, Reigniting Your Light. This speaker series features topics imperative to supporting your personal well-being. Topics and guest speakers include the following: Sept. 26 - Thomas O’Reilly, M.S., PCC, will share his wisdom and expertise on how your circadian rhythm affects your quality of life, not only in your sleeping hours but in your waking hours as well. More importantly, he will teach us how to “dance to the rhythm.” Oct. 10 - Laurel Greene Kaiser, LISW, will discuss...
Jonathan Maletic, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, has received a three-year, $290,610 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help support basic research on how programmers write and develop large-scale software systems. His project "An Infrastructure That Combines Eye Tracking Into Integrated Development Environments to Study Software Development and Program Comprehension” or more simply, iTrace, will help grow the applications of eye-tracking software. Currently, eye-tracking software is ...
Porthouse Theatre, Kent State University's summer professional theatre, was awarded a $23,615 sustainability grant by the Ohio Arts Council during the body's summer board meeting in July. The grant helps Porthouse Theatre provide high-quality theatre and arts education to the Northeast Ohio community. Specifically, the grant allows Porthouse Theatre to continue offering its academies for high school, college and international students, as well as community nights that provide free tickets to patrons that otherwise would not be able to attend the theatre. According to the Ohio Arts Council, s...
A current public health debate is whether parents should have their children vaccinated. Tara Smith, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology at Kent State University’s College of Public Health, challenges statements made by influential individuals who oppose the widespread use of vaccines and calls upon her colleagues in the scientific community to speak out to promote vaccination. The article, “Vaccine Rejection and Hesitancy: A Review and Call to Action,” is published by Oxford Press’ Open Forum Infectious Diseases. In the July 18 article, Smith presents clear and scientifically based arguments to...
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WKSU has added new programs to its weekday and weekend schedules. The station maintains the Saturday storytelling block and the Sunday food block, while expanding the range of public radio listening options for Northeast Ohio. “Our schedule reflects our community of listeners – people who really like to end each day knowing more than when they started,” says WKSU Program Director Ele Ellis. “Adjusting the programming is part of the natural evolution of WKSU.” On Mondays through Fridays at 7 p.m., WKSU airs one hour of NPR’s 1A, produced by WAMU in Washington, D.C., (the statio...
Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and Kent State University have developed a new material that can undulate and therefore propel itself forward under the influence of light. To achieve this, the scientists clamp a strip of this polymer material in a rectangular frame. When illuminated, it goes for a walk all on its own. This small device, the size of a paperclip, is the world’s first machine to convert light directly into walking, simply using one fixed light source. The researchers, including Professor Robin Selinger of Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute® ...
Kent State University at Trumbull officially announced the reinstatement of its campus athletic programs. This fall, Kent State Trumbull will be home to women’s and men’s cross country teams. It is the first competitive sport the school has offered since 1992 when it had basketball, volleyball and golf teams. The teams will compete against area colleges as a student organization under the leadership of volunteer head coach Bill Hess. Lance Grahn, Ph.D., dean and chief administrative officer of Kent State Trumbull, hopes cross country and other sports teams will soon compete a...
This week, e-Inside presents more of Kent State University employees’ favorite summer vacation photos. Watch out for more photos in the next issue. See photos from last week’s issue Josiah Murphy, secretary in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, relaxes in the garden during a visit to a friend’s home in Minnesota. Josiah Murphy shared this photo of homemade ice cream with handpicked fruit that she enjoyed during her vacation. Alana Thompson, financial aid counselor, together with her husband David Thompson, a current Ph.D. student at Kent State,...