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Windy Cole, KSUCPM Wound Research Dept, authored an online journal article, "A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of a Hypothermically Stored Amniotic Membrane for use in Diabetic Foot Ulcers," in the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, Laura Dormer, (2019). ...
*For media planning purposes, Kent State University is providing this monthly email that outlines all planned events for the upcoming month related to the 50th commemoration of May 4. For the latest updates on events, visit www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50/event-schedule. May 4: Looking Through the Looking Glass – Opening Reception (Dec. 3, 4 p.m., University Library, Room 312) Highly Visual: The opening reception of May 4: Through the Looking Glass, an immersive and interactive exhibition that seeks to open up new spaces for thinking and feeling the profound legacies of May 4, 1970, will take ...
Researchers at Kent State University were featured on Spectrum News 1 discussing the development and implementation of their drug prevention infrastructure for three Ohio counties. According to Spectrum News 1, Ohio is leading the nation when it comes to opioid-related deaths. In 2017, Ohio came in second for the most drug overdoses. Researchers at Kent State University are teaming up to tackle this problem. Through a $1.5 million grant, Kent State researchers Deric Kenne, associate professor in the College of Public Health and Ruoming Jin, professor in the Department of Computer S...
Kent State University constitutional law professor, Chris Banks, Ph.D., recaps the impeachment inquiry hearings from Nov. 19 with WKYC lead anchor Russ Mitchell. Banks teaches undergraduate and graduate courses ranging from American Politics to law, justice and society. His undergraduate instruction includes teaching courses on constitutional law, civil rights and liberties, the judicial process, American political theory, and American politics. Before receiving his doctorate, he practiced law in civil and criminal litigation. He said in his interview with WKYC that he does n...
Professor Denise Harrison Shares Knowledge and Perspectives in Emotional Exhibit When Denise Harrison, associate lecturer in the Department of English, teaching in the Department of Pan-African Studies and the Honors College, got her idea to create an exhibit about the “cradle-to-prison” pipeline for young people of color, she was already very familiar with quilting. Learn more. AICPA Honors Kent State Professor of Accounting Wendy Tietz With Innovation in Teaching Award For the fourth time, Wendy Tietz, Ph.D., professor of accounting at Kent State University's College of Bu...
By Kent Wired, Kimberly Fisher, General Assignment reporter Kent State was included in the 2019 edition of Princeton’s annual Guide to Green Colleges. Princeton profiled 413 universities out of the 700 that it surveyed in 2018 and 2019 for “their strong commitments to green practices and programs,” according to a press release from Princeton. These colleges were pulled from a survey done in 2018 that polled hundreds of administrators from four-year colleges about “their institutions’ commitments to the environment and sustainability,” according to a press release from Kent State...
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Artifacts of May 4, 1970 – a survivor’s jacket, a gas mask and gun shell casing – tell a story that’s not often accessible to the general public. Kent State University Assistant Professor Abe Avnisan and students in his digital sciences capstone course will bring these artifacts’ stories to life via the exhibit “May 4: Through the Looking Glass.” Throughout the semester, students have been using photogrammetry – a technique that involves taking a number of overlapping photos and using a software to create three-dimensional images showing the object’s depth – to recreate di...
Kent State University at Ashtabula is sad to announce the passing of John K. Mahan, Ph.D., on Sunday, November 24, 2019. Mahan served the campus for 27 years, including the last 10 years as dean. He was 83.
Calling hours will be held Friday, Dec. 13, from 1-3 p.m. at Thompson-Smith-Nesbitt Funeral Home, 345 Main St., Conneaut. A funeral mass will follow on Saturday, Dec. 14, at Mother of Sorrows Church in Ashtabula at 11 a.m.
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Richard Feinberg, Anthropology, presented "Social and Economic Consequences of "Development on Taumako, Solomon Islands" at the "Sinofon Borderlands Workshop on Modernization in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific" in Olomouc, Moravia, in the Czech Republic on October 10, 2019. ...