TGIF gets a new spin starting Friday, April 7, 2023 when Kent State University at Ashtabula launches its Food Truck Fridays event. From 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mary’s Urban Kitchen will be the first vendor to roll into the Main Hall parking lot to serve up delicious fare to locals. In partnership with the Ashtabula Mobile Food Network, Food Truck Fridays will feature a different food truck on the first Friday of each month through October or November, depending on weather. “The main goal of the Ashtabula Food Truck Network is to provide easy access to resources for existing and potential fo...
Dr. Josh Wilder has already proved he is a survivor. Wilder, who received his Doctor of Podiatric Medicine from Kent State University’s College of Podiatric Medicine in 2016, was born with Eagle-Barrett syndrome, also known as Prune-Belly syndrome, and doctors did not think he would make it past age 5. At age 9, he had a kidney transplant and was put on immunosuppressant medications for the rest of his life. As a side effect of taking the medicine, he developed cancer of the stomach, which was diagnosed at age 25. Doctors also found signs of B-cell lymphoma, so Wilder had a total stomach ...
Last month’s “Brains on Tap” discussion on Parkinson’s disease is now available to listen to on Ideastream Public Media. Brains on Tap is a quarterly series of public discussions, held at a brewery or bar, on topics of research being conducted by members of Kent State University’s Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI) and other Northeast Ohio neuroscientists. The talks are presented in a casual format to take brain health research to the public and make it accessible. The first discussion took place on March 15, on the topic “Parkinson’s Disease and Exercise: Biking to R...
11th Annual Athletics Scholarship Auction
Join us for the 11th Annual Athletics Scholarship Auction April 21. Varsity “K” Hall of Famer Nick Nemeth, ’03, will be the guest of honor and football’s Kent Cleveland, ’12, MA ’13, will be helping to host.
The auction will be a fun-filled night with gourmet food, an open bar, awesome auction prizes and a chance to meet and mingle with Kent State student-athletes and coaches.
Meet Miranda Frank, a Jeanette and Louis Reuter Fellowship in Developmental Sciences recipient. Miranda is a Pyschological Sciences Ph.D. student studying Clinical Psychology. Please give a short overview of your research. My research has examined obesogenic eating behaviors in children/adolescents from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Expanding on this area of research, my dissertation project will assess weight status in relation to psychosocial dysfunction among children with feeding difficulties (e.g., avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder) presenting at an outpatient,...
Meet Jeremy Foust, a David B. Smith Scholarship recipient. Jeremy is a Ph.D. student in Psychological Sciences. Please give a short overview of your research. I study health information avoidance, which is when people choose not to learn health information, often because the information is scary or overwhelming. I'm interested in both the reasons that people avoid health related information, and the consequences of choosing to learn or avoid. What made you choose to pursue your graduate degree here at Kent State? I grew up in Northeast Ohio and was excited for the opportunity t...
