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Female Flyers Played Vital Role in World War II, Kent State Associate Professor Says

The recent death of one of the remaining members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II has a Kent State University associate professor recalling the vital role the female pilots played during the war.

Covering the Carnage: Journalists Risk Own Mental, Physical Health In Reporting from Dayton, El Paso

Note: Gretchen Hoak is a former television reporter/anchor and current assistant professor of journalism in Kent State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her research survey, “Are We Teaching Trauma?”,  focused on how universities prepare young journalists for the trauma they may endure in covering violence. Kent State Today asked Hoak to share her thoughts on the impact the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton will have on the reporters assigned to cover these events.  

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Kent State Student Wins Talent Show for Singing in Sign

A North Royalton woman whom who will become a Kent State University student in the fall, won first place at the Medina County Fair talent show for performing a song in American Sign Language.

NSF Awards Kent State Researchers $1.3 Million to Nourish Children’s Minds, Fill Their Bellies

Science is complex, and it’s difficult to discuss it with children under the best circumstances; it’s even more difficult when they are hungry. Two Kent State University researchers may have cooked up a way to solve both of those problems, and the National Science Foundation just awarded them a three-year, $1.3 million grant to determine if their recipe works.

Alumna Reconnects to Passion of Nursing While Volunteering in Africa

Kent State alumna Shannon Gardiner, BSN ’09, RN, CCRN, always knew she wanted to help people, but also longed for a career that would provide flexibility along the way. After a few years working in Akron Children’s Hospital’s pediatric Intensive Care Unit, followed by some time as a traveling nurse, a Google search for volunteer opportunities led her to Mercy Ships, who own and operate the largest non-governmental hospital ship in the world.

Kent State Prepares LeBron James Family Foundation I PROMISE Students for College Entrance Exams

Kent State University hosted several dozen high school students from the LeBron James Family Foundation's I PROMISE program for a month of intensive college entrance exam preparation.
 

NSF Awards Kent State Researcher Nearly $1 Million for Separate Liquid Crystal Studies

Trustees Research Professor Oleg Lavrentovich, Ph.D., a chemical physicist in Kent State University’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI), just received nearly $1 million between two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for separate studies with potential applications in biomedical science, commercial electronics and beyond.

Kent State Insurance Expert Explains the Risks of Not Enough Coverage

Charla Martin-Bloodsaw, director of Kent State University's Insurance Studies Program at the Salem Campus, explains the risks of condo dwellers not having enough coverage. 

Kent State Biological Sciences Researchers to Lead Study on the Effects of the Spreading Eastern Red Cedars

The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $914,000 grant to Kent State University to lead a collaborative research project to study how and at what rate the geographically most widespread native conifer in the eastern United States, the Eastern Red Cedar tree species (Juniperus virginiana), spreads across the landscape.

Kent State School of Music welcomes alumna Kate Ferguson as Interim Director of Athletic Bands

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Research Initiative Pilot Project Shows Akron Children What Being a Scientist Is All About

Bridget Mulvey, Ph.D., associate professor of science education in the College of Education, Health and Human Services; and David Singer, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently merged real geology research with community service in an effort to show some Akron Public Schools students that science is not just a benefit to their community but a viable career option, too.