Take the Internet seriously. As crazy as that sounds, if a threat is made and feels real, report it. That’s the advice Kent State University student Zoë Burch offers as she reflects on her experience. While in her first year at Kent State, Burch, a Pittsburgh native, was online and noted a potential threat of violence directed at a school in Pennsylvania. She reported the information to Kent State Police, which led to the involvement of the FBI in Northeast Ohio and Pittsburgh, and Pennsylvania authorities. The threat was confirmed with authorities in Pennsylvania, and the suspect ...
Posted July 15, 2013 | Danie le DeBord Kent State University has established a community garden on the Kent Campus to provide employees, students and community members a plot of land to plant produce of their choice. The shared green space was planned, designed, built and is maintained by community members. The Kent State community garden is located&nbs...
Located on the Kent State University Esplanade, between the Kent Student Center and the Kiva, is a Dero Fixit Station, which is a bike repair station. The station provides a repair stand that can hold most bikes, an air pump and basic tools for minor adjustments, and is free and open to members of the Kent State community. There...
Posted July 1, 2013 | Tina Smith To everything there is a season. And now that summer is around the corner, it is gardening time at Kent State University at Salem. Faculty and students from the horticulture program spent time this past spring planning, designing and prepping the Discovery Garden — an outdoor classroom where individuals can lea...
Kent State University faculty, staff and students collected 299,552 pounds of recyclables during the 2013 RecycleMania challenge. This year, 523 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada participated in the eightweek competition that ranks schools based on how much recycling, trash and food waste is collected. Kent State’s Per Capita Classic, ...
Kent State University held its fifth annual Arbor Day celebration with a tree planting on Friday, April 26, at noon near Engleman Hall. Heather White, grounds manager with University Facilities Management, says the celebration recognizes Kent State for receiving a Tree Campus USA designation from the Arbor Day Foundation for the fifth year in a row. Tre...
Five CPH graduate students were among the top presenters at Kent State’s 28th annual Graduate Research Symposium, United by Discovery: The New Face of Research, held April 19. Receiving a first-place award for oral presentations were doctoral students Diana Kingsbury, Lorriane Odhiambo and Julie Schaefer and MPH student Sunita Shakya for A Focus Group Analysis of Global Hand Hygiene Practices and Perceptions, a study performed at the request of GOJO Industries, Inc. Doctoral students Vanessa Marshall, Lorriane Odhiambo and Laura Schuch received a pos...
Ramos Mboane, a physician from Mozambique, joined the college last fall as a MPH student in the epidemiology program. He’s a Fulbright scholar with particular interest in neglected tropical diseases, such as trachoma, the world’s leading cause of infectious blindness, which is readily preventable with access to clean water for personal hygiene. “When I finished my medical education in Maputo three years ago, I decided to work as a district medical officer in a rural area of the large province of Niassa in the north region of the country,” Mboane explains.&n...
The college takes enormous pride in the pioneering work of our faculty and students who are constantly creating, discovering and leading the discourse in their disciplines. Recent research has examined knowledge of the HPV vaccine; predictions of intoxication; injury among children and competitive athletes; and perceptions of pelvic pain. Following are highlights: An examination of middle- and high-school-student knowledge and behaviors surrounding the HPV vaccine in a rural Appalachian, Ohio, county, by Madhav P. Bhatta, Ph.D., Lynette Phillips, Ph.D. and c...