At the same time that Kent State University is competing in a bowl game, as many as 1,000 kids in Texas will be eating a meal that the Golden Flashes helped provide. Team members joined fellow football players from Utah State University to help pack meals as part of Frisco Fastpacs to ensure that no child in Frisco, Texas, has to endure hunger when school is not in session. The program provides seven small meals in bags that are distributed each Friday to underserved youth in Frisco to make sure they have meals over the weekend. The first of the seven mea...
All Kent State University athletes are accustomed to being surrounded by blue. Blue and gold usually, and lots of it. On Tuesday, the Kent State Golden Flashes were embracing a different shade of blue. One with a deep, winning football tradition – the blue-draped practice home to the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys. Kent State worked out Tuesday at the Cowboys’ training facility – Ford Center at the Star – for the first of three workouts ahead of Friday’s Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl against Utah State. The team’s other two workouts will take place on practice fields at ...
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
Steven R. Brown, Evaluation and Measurement, Authored a journal article, "Perspective on Egon Brunswik: Q-Method", The Brunswik Society Newsletter, Volume 34, Issue 1, (2019): 35-42. ...
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
Steven R. Brown, Evaluation and Measurement, authored a journal article, "Subjectivity in the Human Sciences", The Psychological Record, Volume 69, Issue 4, (2019): 565-579. ...
Throughout the past Fall semester, six students taking the Business Consulting and Practicum course worked on a project that could help increase participation in the Senior Olympics program through the Direction Home of Eastern Ohio. The students partnered with Direction Home to help determine why participation in the Senior Olympic games dropped in recent year, while also developing plans to help increase the participation level. The instructor for the class, Tim McFadden, explained that the students worked with Joe Rossi, CEO of the Direction Home of Eastern Ohio, and other staff m...
Kent State University’s College of Nursing recently received a grant totaling $165,000 from Peg’s Foundation, formerly the Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation, a private grant-making foundation that supports mental health programs in Northeast Ohio. Brain Health Research Institute member Wendy Umberger, Ph.D., RN, PMHCNS-BC, associate dean for graduate programs, and Lisa Onesko, DNP, APRN-BC, director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program and associate professor, received $105,000, payable over three years to continue the Peg’s Foundation traineeship program for graduate students...
Ten Kent State University students were awarded $1,000 each for their creative use of videos, podcasts and Adobe Spark® pages to reflect on the events of May 4, 1970, as part of the university’s Design Innovation Common Reading Challenge. In the past, all first-year students were required to participate in the Common Reading Experience by reading the assigned books, writing essays and participating in book discussions. As a new twist to this year’s experience, students could write an essay or use tools from Adobe Creative Cloud to create podcasts, videos or Adobe Spark micro websites...
College of Nursing Faculty Recognized as DAISY Award Recipients Congratulations to College of Nursing faculty Lisa Davis, Kimberly Cleveland and Edward Herzog, who were recently recognized as 2019 DAISY (Diseases Attacking the Immune System) Faculty Award recipients. Learn more. Psychology Professor Brings International Perspective to Geauga Campus Arne Weigold, Ph.D., was recently hired as a new tenure-track assistant professor teaching General Psychology and Perception in the Psychology Department at the Geauga Campus and Twinsburg Academic Center. Learn more. Ken...