Scholar of the Month Eric Jefferis Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences College of Public Health 2004-present Eric Jefferis is an associate professor of social and behavioral sciences in the College of Public Health. His research focuses on intentional injury, violence prevention and program evaluation. Jefferis has served as principle or co-principle investigator on funded research projects totaling nearly $3 million and has authored numerous research articles and reports. Most recently, he was awarded $472,000 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justice fo...
Scholar of the Month Pratim Datta Associate Professor of Management and Information Systems and Director of the Ph.D. Program College of Business Administration 2007-present Pratim Datta is an associate professor in the Department of Management and Information Systems and director of the Ph.D. Program at the College of Business Administration. His research examines global technology and supply chain management in the areas of user experience, design, security and deployment. Datta has more than 55 publications in journals and conferences with more than three best papers in top intern...
The Office of Public Health Practice and Partnerships (OPHPP) recently completed a survey of northeast Ohio local public health departments on workforce development. The survey, conducted among health commissioners, environmental health directors, nursing directors and other senior administrators, inquired about education and training needs for current employees and the desired competencies of recent college graduates seeking employment in the field. According to Assistant Dean of Operations and Community Relations Ken Slenkovich, director of the OPHPP, respondent...
An internationally recognized social geographer, a metadata expert and a leading researcher in the science of liquid crystals and nanomaterials received Kent State University’s 2014 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Awards at a ceremony and reception yesterday on the Kent Campus. Outstanding Research Award Winners James Tyner, Ph.D., professor of geography; Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., professor of library and information science; and Quan Li, Ph.D., senior research fellow in Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute, were recognized for notable scholarly contributions that have an impact on soci...
Kent State University’s Department of Psychology will host U-Night to End Stigma on April 14 from 5-9 p.m. at the Kent Student Center Ballroom. Attendees can come and go as their schedule allows. This event will provide a platform for students, community members, professionals and activists to speak about their insights and experience in the following domains: mental illness/difference, cognitive and physical disabilities/differences, sexuality, gender and addiction. Headliners for the event are Morton Gernsbacher, Ph.D., a researcher from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and Sascha D...
A compassionate teacher who is able to make the class laugh and still maintain a serious learning environment is a teacher who has proven to be outstanding in many ways. Robin Joynes, assistant professor in Kent State University’s Department of Psychology, is one of those teachers. She was honored with a 2013 Outstanding Teaching Award. The Outstanding Teaching Award honors exceptional nontenure-track and part-time faculty members at Kent State. Sponsored by the University Teaching Council, the awards are given every year to three Kent State faculty members for their outstanding achievements ...
Ask Dean Sonia Alemagno to name her research passion, and you won’t wait a millisecond for the answer: substance abuse in society’s most vulnerable adolescents who are also at high risk for mental illness, homelessness and a host of other problems. Despite the dean’s jam-packed schedule leading the College of Public Health, Alemagno makes time to find answers for prevention and intervention. A fitting example is her recent leadership of a study to develop and implement the Ohio Adolescent Drug Use Forecasting System. This tool will monitor and report on emerging...
Kent State University, in partnership with the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet) and Ireland’s Higher Education Authority Network (HEAnet), is in the process of a research project called Bangladesh Research Education Network (BdREN). BdREN will be a high-speed data communications network that is dedicated to meeting the needs of universities and higher education institutions in Bangladesh. BdREN, with its multigigabit capability, aims to connect all universities, research institutions, libraries, laboratories, healthcare and agricultural institutions across Bangladesh to support g...
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 teen drivers, metabolic syndrome and several other topics. Following are highlights: John Hoornbeek, Ph.D., and a colleague published Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in the United States: An Inquiry into the Role of Total Maximum Daily Loads in the International Journal of Water Governance special issue on IWRM, July/August 2013. Jonathan...
Public health graduate students invested time this past summer in international health projects and trips not sponsored by the college, demonstrating their initiative, thirst for global experience and strong desire to help humanity. Five students traveled to rural Western Kenyan to serve in the Mama Pilista Bonyo Memorial Medical Centre for five weeks. Two students journeyed to Belize to work with children and investigate water sanitation issues there. A doctoral student with a passion for reducing transmission of malaria spent the summer in a National Institutes of ...