Faculty members and students from the nursing program at Kent State East Liverpool volunteered during the recent Canfield Fair by conducting free blood pressure screenings at a booth sponsored by the Ohio Nurses Association, District Three, in the fair’s Medical Building. The volunteer effort was initiated and organized by Angela Douglass, senior lecturer of nursing on the East Liverpool campus, assisted by Robin Mermer, lecturer. The students are enrolled in the associate degree in nursing program. Douglass noted that the East Liverpool students teamed up with nursing students from the ...

Familiar Face Min Gao Research Scientist Liquid Crystal Institute® Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Supervisor of the Liquid Crystal Institute Characterization Facility (electron microscopes and much more); providing training, collaboration and service to academic and industrial users; developing and applying advanced characterization techniques for soft-matter materials research.   WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: December 2010 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Peking University, China LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Beautiful campus, nice peo...

New Face Carin Luli Director of Advancement Institutional Advancement Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: As part of the institutional advancement team, I nurture relationships with alumni and friends who would like to make a positive difference for students and faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as Kent State University. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: November 2015 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The University of Akron LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Positive and forward-thinking colleagues; the high energy on this beautiful campus; ...

Can cell phones make you feel less connected to your friends and family? In this digital age, with phones at our finger tips, you would think that access to constant communication would make people feel closer to one another. But a new study by researchers at Kent State University shows that may not be the case. In fact, cell phone use might actually lead to feeling less socially connected, depending on your gender or cell phone habits. Three researchers, Andrew Lepp, Ph.D., Jacob Barkley, Ph.D., and Jian Li, Ph.D., from Kent State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services surveyed 4...

The community is invited to celebrate Kent State University at Stark’s 2016-2017 season of the Featured Speakers Series with an impressive selection of personalities. Join Kent State Stark for exciting talks by bestselling author and thought leader Max Brooks, actor and activist R.J. Mitte, author Susannah Cahalan and television journalist John Quinones. For more than 25 years, this popular Kent State Stark series has been attracting thousands of campus and community members who take advantage of a rare opportunity to be introduced to national and international experts on a wide range of topic...

The upper study area of the Paul Blair Memorial Library is now known as the Lang Learning Loft, recognizing the Rachel Boyce Lang Charitable Trust and its financial contribution to the Kent State East Liverpool Campus. The repurposed space is now equipped with technology and furnishings that allow students to study in groups or to prepare group presentations, as well as areas that are designed for individual study and tutoring. “Technology has changed the way students are taught and how they learn. Their study is more electronic and it is more social,” noted Dr. Susan Rossi, assistant dean...

Graduate student researches efforts to make education accessible in Central Africa Kent State University global communication studies graduate student Daniel Socha’s research on a nonprofit organization’s efforts to support youth education in the Democratic Republic of Congo recently caught the attention of National Public Radio (NPR). In May, Socha traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo to study and report on Project Kirotshe, a nonprofit that provides funding for youth in the village of Kirotshe and surrounding areas to attend school. Socha’s travel was funded through a fellowshi...

The fall 2016 Bowman Breakfast will take place at Kent State University in the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Doors open at 7 a.m., breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m., and the program will follow at 8 a.m. The featured speaker is Kent State Director of Athletics Joel Nielsen. Nielsen will speak about “The Game Plan,” Kent State’s four-year strategic vision aimed at enhancing the university’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics’ culture of academic and athletic success. "This plan lays the foundation for us to make decisions that will enhance our winning and our academic su...

Kent State University’s Online Learning Team in the Office of Continuing and Distance Education has earned national recognition for outstanding work in online education. The Association for Educational Communications and Technology presented first- and second-place awards to Kent State for its faculty training courses, Online Classroom Examples and Ideas: A Showcase Course and A Pathway to Excellence: Kent State’s Online Faculty Development Program. These training courses were designed to assist faculty members who teach online courses. Additionally, Kent State’s Department of Health Policy a...