Kent State University at Trumbull is opening the Hart’s School of Performing Arts in October. Shiloh Hart was featured on WKBN for starting an eight-week program for high school students searching for knowledge and experience in the performing arts. “I just thought it was an excellent opportunity to take everything I’ve learned over the years and gone through when I was in high school and bring it back to this area,” Hart told WKBN. According to the school website, Hart will be offering workshops, one-acts, and private lessons for ages K-12. “I feel like...

Kent State University faculty and staff participated in a Lunchtime Bike/Scooter Ride on Friday as part of the university’s wellness program. Once or twice a month, from May through September, a SPIN representative leads a tour of the Kent Campus and the community with SPIN bikes and scooters, free of charge. Participants may also bring their own bikes or scooters. To learn more, visit www.kent.edu/recwell/spin-ksu.   ...

Cassandra Jones Returns to Coshocton Elementary School (CES)   The Coshocton Tribune reports that EHHS grad Cassandra Jones, AAS ’20, BSE ’22, a native of Dennison, Ohio, will be one of two new teachers at Coshocton Elementary School this year.   CES has two new teachers this year. Cassandra Jones in fourth grade and Melissa Hannan in the self-contained classroom. For Jones, this is her first teaching job after graduating Kent State University in May. She's from Coshocton originally, but grew up in Dennison and graduated from Claymont Hi...

Faculty and students from the associate degree in nursing program at Kent State East Liverpool volunteered during the recent Canfield Fair by conducting free blood pressure screenings at a booth sponsored by the Ohio Nurses Association, District Three, in the fair’s Medical Building. The volunteer effort was initiated and organized by Angela Douglass, senior lecturer of nursing on the East Liverpool campus.  She has spearheaded this outreach project for ADN students at Kent East Liverpool since 2008. Joining Douglass was Julia Schnurrenberger, lecturer for the East Liverpool ADN progra...