Before a Kent State University basketball player can score a basket, grab a rebound or defend an opponent, that player has to be ready to take the court. That readiness is built long before tipoff, through treatment, strength training, recovery, hydration, nutrition and the daily work of professionals who understand what athletes need to perform. For Juju Seki, athletic trainer for the men’s basketball team, and SJ Novak, athletic trainer for the women’s team, both through a partnership with Cleveland Clinic, the goal is to keep players healthy and help them return safely when injuries oc...
The School of Art Collection and Galleries at Kent State University is pleased to announce Devan Shimoyama as the 2026 Curlee Raven Holton and Raven Print Editions Fellow. In conjunction with the fellowship there will be:
Volunteer with the Wick Poetry Center for the Poets for Science Gathering, a multi-day event. Volunteers will assist at the registration table, in the cafeteria and during the book fair. Duties may include greeting attendees, directing people to session rooms and transportation, etc.
"Going to Greece was truly the best decision I ever made! I made so many new lifelong friendships and studied in the most beautiful place I got to call home. If you’re thinking about it just do it!"
Jennifer Cunningham, Ph.D., professor in the English Department, recently published "The Community of Inquiry Framework in Writing Studies: Designing for Learning with Peer Review." The book, a culmination of eight years of research and composing, investigates peer review in hybrid and online first-year writing courses. In March 2017 at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in Portland, Oregon, the four authors of this book attended an Online Writing Instruction (OWI) Standing Group meeting. Not having met previously, they found themselves in conversation, given i...
Mialie T. Szymanski, in the office of the Dean at Kent State Trumbull, recently presented at the 3rd Biennial Children’s Literature Symposium: The Pleasures and Problems of Pooh. The international symposium, hosted by Hollins University in Roanoke, VA, reflected on the role of classic children's literature in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the publication of A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh."Mialie's presentation, entitled "Pawsitive Energy: Winnie-the-Pooh and Tigger, Too, the Hundred Acre Wood Crew as Our Emotional Support Animals," explored the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh characters as lite...
Student doctor Jacob Wielgomas, MS-IV, is contributing to the future of limb-salvage medicine as a co-author of a newly published review in the Journal of Wound Care.The article, “Angiosome-directed revascularisation and the woundosome paradigm in chronic limb-threatening ischaemia: a narrative review,” brings together an interdisciplinary team of podiatric physicians, vascular surgeons, interventional specialists and wound-care experts to examine how revascularization strategies can improve healing and limb salvage. Wielgomas is the only student doctor among the nine authors and is affil...
