September 2020 Recap

Kent State University launched its month-long celebration of philanthropy, Giving Tuesday, on Nov. 9 and highlighted a fundamental belief within the Golden Flash community: “Flashes Take Care of Flashes.” This caring approach has been a cornerstone in uniting both current and past Flashes in efforts to support each other through trying times. With so much uncertainty and economic instability arising from the current global health crisis, many students need financial support to continue their education. The “Flashes Take Care of Flashes” message exemplifies the purpose of the Giving Tuesday ...

Kent State University launched its month-long celebration of philanthropy, Giving Tuesday, on Nov. 9 and highlighted a fundamental belief within the Golden Flash community: “Flashes Take Care of Flashes.” This caring approach has been a cornerstone in uniting both current and past Flashes in efforts to support each other through trying times. With so much uncertainty and economic instability arising from the current global health crisis, many students need financial support to continue their education. The “Flashes Take Care of Flashes” message exemplifies the purpose of the Giving Tuesday ...

(Warren, OH) Few are feeling the repercussions of COVID-19 more than nursing home residents. To help lift their spirits, Kent State University at Trumbull nursing students are writing them greeting cards.   Brittany Snyder, a senior nursing student and Lordstown High School graduate, came up with the idea, working as an STNA at Humility House in Austintown.   “We have lost some of our residents due to COVID,” Snyder said. “I thought sharing kind and encouraging words on a greeting card would be a good way to boost their spirits.”   Snyder is vice president of Kent State T...

Students struggling academically or with time management skills will have an additional, powerful resource in the form of a fellow student to coach them to success. The Academic Success Center’s Peer Academic Coaching Program at Kent State University is now available for all students.  Peer Academic Coaching is a personalized one-on-one coaching service that pairs a student with a peer coach to develop proficiencies vital to an academic environment like Kent State, such as time management, study strategies and resilience “The goal is to help you become more effective and efficient a...

A recent study by Dr. William Lechner, Department of Psychological Sciences, and colleagues in the Center for Public Policy and Health in the College of Public Health at Kent State University has been listed in the World Health Organization’s Global Literature on Coronavirus Disease database. The study found that following the closure of university campuses, alcohol consumption increased over time, with students who reported greater symptoms of psychological distress also reporting greater increases in alcohol consumption overall.   To read more about the study, click here or follow th...

Kent State University will hold its annual Veterans Day Commemoration via a virtual webcast Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. The program, Honoring All Those Who Serve, will include: A pre-recorded flag-raising ceremony conducted by a joint color guard from the Army ROTC and Air Force ROTC programs on the Student Green at Risman Plaza. Lt. Col. Adrien Humphreys will serve as emcee. A native of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Humphreys began her military career as an enlisted soldier in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps in September 1998. She was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in December 2003...

As part of Kent State University’s ongoing strategy to help stop the spread of COVID-19, Kent State has partnered with the city of Kent to bring the Ohio Department of Health’s Pandemic Testing Team to campus from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15 for an open testing event. This event, just five days before many will leave the Kent Campus for Thanksgiving break, was specifically timed so that students and others can get tested and know before they leave if it is safe to travel or visit with family and friends over the holiday without fear they could be spreading COVID-19. T...

At just 19 years old, Kent State University sophomore Izzy Stewart has inspired hundreds of fellow students to exercise their right to vote. The public relations major has been inspired by those who have come before her here and is taking steps to create political change. Since her time in high school, Stewart has gone into her communities and spoken to her peers about the importance of voting, helping over 480 fellow students register to vote. She also volunteers as a poll worker, helping people to actually vote once they’ve registered. Her drive to increase voter turnout among students beg...

In a paper published in "Nature," researchers in Trustees Research Professor Oleg Lavrentovich’s materials science group at Kent State describe how it moved a stabilized droplet of active bacteria along a pre-determined path by harnessing the broken symmetry of a liquid crystal. The researchers found that by aligning the crystal molecules they could force the droplet to move in a straight line, in contrast to its random motion in a Newtonian fluid. It is hoped that this system could be used to model microscopic organisms. Read more: https://physicsworld.com/a/hyperbolic-hedgehog-steers...