Stress can impact your physical and emotional health, and it can lead you to engage in unhealthy behaviors. Studies have found a link between high stress and diabetes, elevated LDL cholesterol, heart disease, hypertension, obesity, as well as tooth and gum disease. Finding positive ways to cope with your stressors can help improve your overall health and well-being and is specifically the strategies you will learn and enhance during the Winter Chill Challenge. The challenge will take place from March 1-28. Let's chill out together. Join the Winter Chill 28-Day Challenge today! Reg...
The 20-Year Service Award Program will be held on Tuesday, May 24. The awards program is an annual event established in 1966 to honor classified and unclassified employees who have dedicated 20 years of continuous service to Kent State University. Each year, friends, family and co-workers join in honoring inductees at an awards dinner. Upon reaching their 20-year milestone, employees may select either a chair for home or office, or a bench or a tree to be placed on campus in their honor. During the awards program, employees celebrating other service milestones (i.e. 5, 10, 15, 25...
Familiar Face Steve Finley Manager Mail Services Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I lead a team of professional mail sorters, delivery drivers and package handlers that includes full-time and student workers, making sure that written communications flow smoothly throughout the Kent Campus. In the past 12 months, we have handled more than 895,000 incoming letters and packages, and mailed out more than 2,700,000 letters, postcards and large envelopes. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: April 2010 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: 25 years as account executive, selling pri...
New Face Virginia Dressler Digital Projects Librarian University Libraries Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Provides technical expertise and project management support in the creation and maintenance of digital collections on various platforms at the University Libraries. Works to coordinate cross-divisional teams to support digital initiatives. Provides support librarywide for digital preservation and reformatting. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: April 2014 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio LIKES MOST ABOUT KE...
One-way, one-lane eastbound traffic on Summit Street to begin March 7 East Summit Street, which has been identified as a high-traffic, high-accident area and a dangerous corridor for pedestrians, is in the midst of a major overhaul. Work on the “Summit Street: Building a Better Way” improvement project began last fall. The project is designed to transform a one-mile stretch of the road, from Lincoln Street to Loop Road that runs through the heart of Kent State University’s Kent Campus. The enhancements include the addition of two roundabouts, a boulevard, bike lanes, and more sidew...
Project AWARE Kent, a new three-year program at Kent State University, is an initiative to raise awareness about mental health and substance abuse disorders. Project AWARE Kent will be offering Mental Health First Aid courses to Kent State students, faculty and staff in an effort to create a network of people at Kent State who will know how to respond to and are aware of mental health and substance abuse disorders. The course is an evidence-based training that teaches people to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders. The two-day (four hours each...
Kent State University's Police Services is conducting a survey of all Kent Campus students, faculty and staff members. This survey offers you an opportunity to provide feedback to Kent State's Police Services unit about the work we do for the Kent State community and to tell us what you think our most important concerns and priorities should be as we plan our work and shape our agency to serve the university community. We invite you to take our five-minute survey at https://www.research.net/r/KSUPD by March 7. Your responses to the survey will be anonymous. All data will be reported in a...
Like many students, Stacee Stinedurf credits her passion for geology to David Hacker, Ph.D., associate professor of geology at Kent State University at Trumbull and a recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Teaching Award. Each year, the Kent State Alumni Association recognizes Kent State’s outstanding faculty members by awarding three nominated educators with the Distinguished Teaching Award. The Distinguished Teaching Award is the most prestigious award Kent State presents to full-time, tenure-track faculty members. In her nomination letter, the alumna of the geology program says Hacker’s supp...
When you first meet Liz Schmidt, an instant friendship emerges, filled with conversation illuminated with respect and kindness. Her friendly disposition and welcoming nature, coupled with her sense of adventure, reflects the social responsibility she lives by: “foster relationships and value people that you run into every day.” Schmidt is a sophomore majoring in conflict management in Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences. She is also Yes! Magazine’s online “Justice For All” University Winner. Every quarter, the magazine puts on an essay competition that challenges student...
Kent State University’s Dogs on Campus Pet Therapy program was invited to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport to bring comfort to travelers this past December. The United Paws event, hosted by United Airlines, brought trained therapy dogs to seven hub airports across the country to help relieve travel-related stress during the holiday season. From Dec. 21-23, travelers could interact with the comfort dogs at gates and post photos on social media for a chance to win two free round-trip tickets to any destination. Jonathan Guerin, public relations manager for United Airlines, says United ...