This Week’s Theme: Take a Nature Break - Time outdoors boosts mood and attention, even 10 minutes helps. Feeling lonely? Explore nature, make connections, seek support. When you unplug, recharge and reconnect to nature, it is the ultimate stress reducer.
Journal Prompt: Describe a place in nature where you feel at peace. What sensory details come to mind?
WELCOME to the Just Be…mental wellness website. The purpose of this website is to provide you with information that will aid and help you succeed during your time in college and beyond. One of the practices that research shows to enhance individual wellness is journaling, or rather taking a moment to stop, reflect, and plan. Additionally, research suggests that journaling can enhance social comfort and increase interpersonal skills such as talking (conversation), listening, and forming relationships (Pennebaker and Graybeal 2001).
Elliot DI Faculty Fellow Profile – Hadi RahmatiWhen School of Visual Communication Design Assistant Professor Hadi Rahmati met Computer Science Assistant Professor Raiful Hasan at Kent State University's new faculty orientation in 2023, their conversation about their respective research interests led to an important project. They're working together to solve a big problem: how can self-driving cars communicate better with pedestrians?Based on suggestions from Hasan, Rahmati read about 20 research articles on human-machine interaction and noticed something important was missing. None of t...
In the Architectural Exploration program, high school students study and build for two weeks at a summer camp at Kent State's College of Architecture and Environmental Design. The program's design thinking curriculum is designed to inspire and prepare the next generation of emerging designers for the endless possibilities presented in the architectural field. A compilation representing their efforts during their time in this year's program is a collection of work titled "Transformations of the Primitive Hut." The students' designs are on display in...
