Learn how to locate, adopt and adapt Open Educational Resources and other alternatives to traditional textbooks at Kent State University Libraries’ 2022 Affordable Course Materials Summit. This event will take place on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, from 9:30 am – 3:30 pm in the first-floor Harrick Garden Room. The event is free; however, registration is required. The schedule includes guest speakers from Cleveland State University, Patricia (Patty) Stoddard Dare, Ph.D., (social work, gender studies) and Kelly Wrenhaven, Pd.D., (classical studies) who have authored their own open educational ...
Kathryn Burns is an upperclassman who transferred to Kent State during the pandemic. Last academic year, she became a fellow within the Environmental Science and Design Research Institute (ESDRI) at KSU, which falls under the Division of Research and Sponsored Programs (RASP). Kathryn is from the region and her family – as well as the family dog, Archie – live in Lyndhurst, Ohio. Originally Kathryn wanted to study food recovery and food waste. While this is still a research passion of hers, now that she has been exposed to other environmental...
Last Friday, a group of about 10 Kent State students received a guided tour of one of the most unique spaces on the Kent Campus – the Herrick Conservatory. It’s the large greenhouse that’s attached to the north side of Cunningham Hall. The 5,500-square-foot facility is home to a large and diverse selection of plants, plus some fish and a couple of turtles. Highlights of the collection include a 30-year-old rubber tree and strawberry guava tree, banana trees, flowering plants and vegetables, succulents, tropical varieties and even carnivorous plants. The t...
Kent State University partnered with Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City for an international cross-cultural exchange for students to focus on studying how immigrant populations are aided by sustainable gardening projects. The program enabled 11 Kent State students from the Stark and Kent campuses to spend their spring break in Mexico, and a group of 11 students from Universidad Panamericana (UP) to spend a week in Northeast Ohio in June, working at Shanti Community Farms in Akron’s North Hill neighborhood, which is home to large groups of immigrants. Sarah Schmidt, assista...
Employee Wellness is pleased to sponsor on-site 3D mammography screenings at the Kent campus this October. In partnership with the Women's Diagnostic Center, we will offer annual routine digital mammograms Oct. 3-6, 2022. The Women's Diagnostic Center will provide 3D mammograms in their mobile coach unit which will be parked in the Heer Hall parking lot (635 Loop Rd - across from the ice arena). The 3D mobile coach provides a private setting to obtain your mammogram with experienced licensed mammogram technicians. The vehicle contains a check-in desk, private changing area and mammogram equ...
Is your group hosting a talk, workshop or speaker during October’s Relationship Abuse Awareness Month (RAAM)? Add your event to the university’s RAAM calendar. The Center for Sexual & Relationship Violence Support Services (SRVSS) is coordinating the calendar and will be hosting several events during the month in conjunction with other offices and student groups throughout Kent State. We want to support your event, too. If your department, division, college, or student organization is hosting an event in October related to relationship abuse, let us know. Submit events o...
As part of the employee wellness program, all full-time, benefits-eligible staff and faculty are invited to attend a complimentary onsite Know Your Numbers health screening this fall. For your convenience, we have arranged flu vaccine clinics to align with health screenings at all campuses through December 2022. Flu vaccines are available to all full- and part-time employees, spouses/partners and dependent children aged 18+. What Happens at a Know Your Numbers Screening? Our wellness partner, Be Well Solutions, will be on-site to conduct the screenings, which inc...
Kent State University’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering (CAE) developed an innovative hybrid fuel cell capacitor that prolongs the flight time of unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs), the first hybrid fuel cell battery capacitor specifically developed for commercial UAVs. The project team, led by Yanhai Du, Ph.D., professor in Kent State’s CAE and principal investigator at Kent State’s Fuel Cell Research Lab, developed a lightweight-high-energy-density onboard power source that enables vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) type aircraft to potentially increase fli...
In August 2021, 1,000 incoming Kent State students, faculty and staff began a collaborative community effort to implement a social justice quilting project. This initiative stemmed from the Community Engaged Learning (CEL) department's welcome week and was completed in late August 2022. “The students were only given fabric, fabric glue, stencils and cookie cutters,” Louise Ditchey, academic program officer and coordinator for the executive master of the business administrations program at Kent State, said. “Then after a year of hard work, we all created these quilts together.” Ditchey and ...
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