Everyone deals with stress in their own way, and people with disabilities encounter unique challenges. Due to the varied way stress affects people, the concept of “spoon theory” is often used to shed light on these differences. Spoon theory suggests that people with disabilities have a limited amount of energy (represented by spoons). Since people with disabilities tend to have higher levels of stress caused by the disability itself or the extra challenges faced every day, the way their “spoons” are distributed is different than someone without a disability.Stress is an inevitable aspect...

The COVID-19 pandemic changed many aspects of daily life for Americans – from the way we communicate and interact to the way we shop. It also affected the way we dress. Who hasn’t done a Zoom call wearing a blazer and sweatpants?According to Hillary Stone, industry liaison and professor in Kent State University’s School of Fashion, this preference for comfort during the pandemic has changed the way we dress out in public now too.  “When we went remote and we still had to move forward with our day-to-day operations, the casual office attire became the mainstream in-office dress,” Ston...

 Zachery Pfouts’s journey to the job of his dreams looked more like a mountain trail than a straight path. Along the way, Pfouts found Kent State University at Tuscarawas. The campus’s distinctive Bachelor of Science and Engineering Technology degree turned out to be the key to his success.  Pfouts had gone to school, but his job searches in his fields of interest came up short.  “I actually went to a local community college, and I got my associate degree in applied science in mechanical engineering. I took about a two-year break and found out that I can't really find any jobs w...