In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, who received her bachelor’s degree from Kent State University in 2013 and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental health sciences at Kent State, was told that her father had a 10 percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. MRSA is a type of staph bacteria resistant to antibiotics used to treat general staph infections, according to the Mayo Clinic website. Cheatham’s father became infected when a nurse touched his IV injection site with MRSA-contaminated hands. Prior to starting his IV, the nurse dro...

  Kent State University’s Center for Public Policy and Health has released a brief report pertaining to the current knowledge of the impacts of local health department consolidation both nationally and in the state of Ohio. The document reviews both scholarly and professional literature relating to the impacts of local health department consolidation. The report was intended to serve as a resource for local officials to gain a better understanding of the impacts of the process. The report summarizes information regarding the changing public health threats and practices and the lands...

Kent State University faculty, staff and students are invited to join Kent State President Beverly Warren on Monday, Feb. 22, from 3-4 p.m. for an interactive Town Hall at the Kent Student Center Ballroom Balcony. Regional locations will communicate host information to their campus communities.  This forum will provide the opportunity to discuss the meaning of being Undeniably Kent State and chart the next steps in the Roadmap to a Distinctive Kent State. Town Hall attendees also will review specific action steps and how we can work together to plan for an exceptional future for Kent S...

Wang received a $10,000 grant for her project Ya-Fen Wang, Ph.D., M.S.N., RN, assistant professor in Kent State University’s College of Nursing, is working on a one-year project to study if children’s prolonged exposure to stressful situations such as school, family or environment encourages poor eating behaviors, which can lead to childhood obesity. Wang’s project, titled “Resourcefulness, Stress and Overeating in Children,” also looks at whether those behaviors can be exchanged for healthier options through self-coping skills, also known as resourcefulness. She received a $10,000 grant fro...

The Kent Campus experiences its first heavy snowfall of 2016.     ...

Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, presented “Development, Aloha and Non-Giving among Polynesian Outlier Communities” at the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, which took place in San Diego, California, on Feb. 12, 2016. ...

Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, is co-author with Jodi Kearns, Ph.D., University of Akron, of an article titled Shannon Goes to the Museum: Drawing Lines Across Boundaries, that was published in the 2015 DOCAM Proceedings, Vol. 2. Website: http://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/ ...

Peter C. Kratcoski, Sr., Department of Sociology, Maximilian Edelbacher and Bojan Dobovsek authored Corruption, Fraud, Organized Crime, and the Shadow Economy, Edition 1, (Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group) Peter C. Kratcoski ,Ed. (2016), 293-305. Summary: The authors reveal how organized crime, corruption and fraud functions in the shadow (informal) economy and how the shadow economy affects the economic welfare of a nation.  ...

We live in an age and culture where living to eat has become the norm. Obesity rates are continuously increasing and is one of the top causes of death in America. Cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes are strongly related to diet and lifestyles. Held March 2 from noon-1 p.m. in the Kent Student Center, Room 313, this seminar will provide an overview of the dietary recommendations necessary to reduce chronic disease. We will discuss specific food groups, and foods and their health benefits that will enable us to prevent disease and live a long, healthy life. The pr...