Community & Society

Flashes Take Care of Flashes Through Online Meditation Classes
Meditative practices are bringing the Kent State community together, even from the comfort of their own home. Kent State of Wellness has moved its Meditation Across Campus sessions online, in an effort to continue the sessions despite the COVID-19 global pandemic.

10 Questions With David Hassler, Director of the Wick Poetry Center
David Hassler is the director of the Wick Poetry Center, where he oversees the local and national Wick projects, works with students and collaborates with other programs across campus. We asked him 10 questions about Kent, Kent State, poetry and, of course, how he's keeping himself — and the Kent State Community — busy during the pandemic.

Kent State and Gov. DeWine Encourage Students to Stay Home
Kent State University students have the chance to share why it is important to them to stay home and help stop the spread of COVID-19 with the #StayHomeOhioKSU initiative.

Alumni Raise Money for Meals for Essential Workers, Aid for Struggling Restaurants
A Kent State University alumnus is teaming up with local restaurants and other alumni and friends to help raise money to provide meals to frontline workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Northeast Ohio.

Kent State University’s Design Innovation Initiative Uses Creativity to Help Medical Professionals Fight COVID-19
A team of 25 faculty, staff and students use innovation and creativity to help health professionals in Northeast Ohio protect themselves from COVID-19.

Kent State Flashes Take Care of Community, Collect University's PPE for Area Hospitals and Agencies
Kent State University’s administration, faculty and staff have stepped up to collect the university’s personal protective equipment (PPE) to donate to local entities in dire need of medical supplies.

Kent State Flashes Take Care of Community, Collect University's PPE for Area Hospitals and Agencies
Kent State University’s administration, faculty and staff have stepped up to collect the university’s personal protective equipment (PPE) to donate to local entities in dire need of medical supplies.

Kent State Public Relations Students Create Census Campaign
Since October 2019, select public relations students at Kent State University have been working hard to complete a campaign for the 2020 Annual Case Study Bateman Competition client: the United States Census Bureau. The National Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) hosts this competition each year challenging participants to develop and implement a comprehensive communications campaign for a client.

Kent State Flashes Take Care of Community, Collect University's PPE for Area Hospitals and Agencies
Kent State University’s administration, faculty and staff have stepped up to collect the university’s personal protective equipment (PPE) to donate to local entities in dire need of medical supplies.

"We All Can Play a Role," Kent State Epidemiologist Says
Tara C. Smith, Ph.D., epidemiology professor in the College of Public Health, shares her perspective on the current coronavirus pandemic: "It seems like years have passed since the world first heard of an 'atypical pneumonia' circulating in the Hubei province of China in December 2019. When we’ve seen similar reports in the past, the illnesses have had a variety of causes, but all were eventually containable..."