WKSU is leading Learning Curve, a statewide multimedia collaborative looking at the challenges and opportunities facing public education in Ohio. The series launched in mid-February and will continue running throughout the spring. Learning Curve will examine the state of funding, opportunity gaps, curriculum, services offered and the impact of the pandemic. The series will also explore what’s next for public education and how public educators, researchers, government officials and advocates are using the pandemic to improve public education for the future. The goal of the series is ...

Tips for Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine By March 29, every Ohioan age 16 and older is eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. However, scheduling an appointment for a shot can be challenging. Here are some helpful tips to successfully find a vaccination appointment: Start with the state. Visit https://gettheshot.coronavirus.ohio.gov/location-select, for a complete list of all locations in your area that are offering shots. You can search by zip code to find many options. Widen your search. Search within as wide a radius from your home as possible. You may find it easier to make an appoi...

Tips for Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine By March 29, every Ohioan age 16 and older is eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. However, scheduling an appointment for a shot can be challenging. Here are some helpful tips to successfully find a vaccination appointment: Start with the state. Visit https://gettheshot.coronavirus.ohio.gov/location-select, for a complete list of all locations in your area that are offering shots. You can search by zip code to find many options. Widen your search. Search within as wide a radius from your home as possible. You may find it easier to make an a...

Kent State University alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and the community are encouraged to save the date for one of the university’s long-standing traditions. Kent State will celebrate Homecoming 2021 on Saturday, Oct. 2. In addition to enhanced Homecoming festivities, the university will celebrate the Class of 2020 with a historic in-person commencement ceremony during Homecoming Weekend. Organizers of Homecoming are planning events and activities that can occur safely. Details are still being determined surrounding Homecoming 2021 and will be shared as they develop at www.kent.ed...

The College of Podiatric Medicine (CPM) would like to congratulate Windy Cole, DPM, CWSP, on her recent receipt of a Silver Award for Innovations in Technology Driven Research! Dr. Cole was honored with the award during the recently held Journal of Wound Care World Union of Wound Healing Societies (JWC WUWHS) award ceremony. Regarded as ‘The Olympics of Wound Care’, the JWC WUWHS Awards celebrates the finest achievements in wound care over a four-year span. This year, the celebration returned to deliver some of the most prestigious awards in the wound care community for work done following ...

One of Kent State University’s newest faculty members in the Department of Geology has already made her mark with the recent publication of her and her colleagues’ work to better understand the effects of global warming as it relates to the arctic ocean. Allyson Tessin, Ph.D., assistant professor, specializes in biochemistry, oceanography and sedimentary geology. She is currently studying the relationship between the chemistry of the ocean and climate change. Tessin has traveled to the Arctic three times for durations spanning four to seven weeks per trip. In the summers of 2017 and 2018, ...

Kent is surrounded by opportunities for community engagement— just ask School of Art alumna Francisca Ugalde Zapico. She graduated from Kent State University with her B.F.A. in Painting in 2005 and earned her M.A. in Arts Administration from The University of Akron. She currently works as a curator at the Institute for Human Science and Culture at the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology at The University of Akron. Fran was born in Chile and relocated via Colombia and Puerto Rico to Ohio in 1999 and currently lives in Merriman Valley, Akron. Fran has been in...

Kent State University at Ashtabula associate professor Bryan Jones, Ph.D., was recently named one of ten finalists for the University’s most prestigious teaching honor, the Distinguished Teaching Award.  The award is sponsored annually by the Kent State Alumni Association and is presented to three full-time faculty members demonstrate extraordinary teaching in the classroom and the devotion to touching the lives of students. Jones has taught psychology courses on the Ashtabula Campus since 2010. “I’m honored and humbled by the nomination,” Jones said. “I think we’ve all tried to del...

Aileen LeRoy has always been passionate about language, feeling, “It’s a mystery, a science, and an art all in one.” As a junior Honors College student majoring in Teaching English as a Second Language with an Italian studies minor, much of Aileen’s college education has been focused on language studies. In addition to her major coursework, Aileen is planning to complete a Senior Honors Thesis with a linguistic focus. Currently in her thesis preparation semester, Aileen is completing initial research for her project of making a constructed language. A constructed language is “an arti...