Kent State University at Salem horticulture students are continuing to help make an important historical landmark in East Liverpool more attractive and inviting to local motorists. Students in the landscape construction class, taught by Stan Jones on the Salem Campus, were back in East Liverpool where they worked on the second phase of a beautification project at the Point of Beginning – an often overlooked registered national historic landmark that had fallen into a state of neglect in recent years. The class used wooden beams and 18 tons of rock to create an area for visitors to walk to th...
Danielle Sarver Coombs, Associate Professor in the College of Communication and Information, feels that women have to run their campaigns differently than their male counterparts. She recently shared her views with the Akron Beacon Journal for a story about Hillary Clinton's selection as the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party. “ ‘You have to smile more. Don’t be shrill. You’re yelling,’ ” Coombs said in the story. “Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump can go out and yell, and it’s not a problem.” Read the entire story on Ohio.com Coombs studies electoral politics, sp...
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When Don King, a part-time faculty member in Kent State's School of Art, goes into the woods for a walk, his eyes are trained to see much more than the average hiker. "I was watching a TV show where a couple of chefs went out into the woods and brought back a huge basket of mushrooms and started cooking them, and that really got me hooked," King told David Moss of FOX8 News. Dubbed "The Mushroom Hunter," King looks for edible mushrooms in area woods. He recently showed the best ways to cook crown tip corral mushrooms, which can grow on logs. Watch ...