Community & Society

Taylor Stull, SNA officer; Bill, Wellness Center member; Valerie Salyers, SNA president; Matt, Wellness Center member; Alice Colwell, professor, and SNA advisor; and Bob, Wellness Center member.

The Student Nurses Association is putting its best foot forward, hoping to promote healthy lifestyles in the Mahoning Valley with the new program at the Niles Wellness Center, which encourages members to talk and ask questions about health and activity.

FBI-Released Sketches from Confessed Serial Killer

Linda Spurlock, Ph.D., spoke to WJW Fox 8 News Cleveland about the recently released victim portraits drawn by Samuel Little, a confessed serial killer from Lorain, Ohio.

Symone Baskerville Poses in Kent Fabrics During the Grand Opening

When Symone Baskerville came from Chicago to Kent State to study fashion design, she realized that living so far from home was not nearly as difficult a transition as living in an area with limited choices of fabrics available for to her to use for her class projects. So she changed that by opening Kent Fabrics.

Small Town, Big Music Book Cover

Jason Prufer, '03, a lifelong resident of Kent and Kent State University alumnus, has compiled “Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and Roll,” a book that covers the college town’s impressive – and previously unappreciated – rock history.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Christopher Dum

Christopher Dum, Ph.D., created the ID13 Prison Literacy Project to give men in Lake Erie Correctional Institution in Conneaut, Ohio, a positive outlet while serving their sentence, hoping it help inmates to see themselves as writers rather than convicts.

We Are What We Sell Partial Book Cover

Danielle Coombs, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, says Super Bowl ads still target men despite the fact that nearly half of the modern NFL audience identifies as women.

Local high schools participate in the Girls4Steam event at Kent State

Staff and departments from across the university helped to put the event together, including Annette Kratcoski, director of the College of Education, Health and Human Services’ Research Center for Educational Technology; LaunchNET and the University Library Multimedia Services.

Students in the Communication and Terrorism class listening to the client brief

Students are getting real-world experiences in classes across campus as they work with local organizations. For Communication Studies’ Counterterrorism and Communication class, the lessons are getting real very quickly. Students last semester worked with the Cleveland Police Department and the Northeast Ohio Regional Fusion Center, a task force that curates and disseminates threat-related information across federal, state, local and private-sector entities.

 Danielle Weiser-Cline, of Kent State Geauga, and Stefanie Paganini, executive director of the International Culinary Arts and Sciences Institute discuss the partnership between the two schools.

Students taking classes at the International Culinary Arts and Sciences Institute (ICASI) in Chesterland have a open pathway to a Kent State University associate degree thanks to a new partnership between the cooking school and Kent State Geauga.

Kent State graduates, students and crew adjust lights for the principle shot of the new Kent State commercial.

Three Kent State University students gained valuable video production experience by working on a new television commercial produced by the university as part of the new spring campaign.