What do you do when your mascot has a birthday coming up? You start planning, and we’re not talking about a party. When it comes to managing a social media account -- or multiple social media accounts -- a content plan is imperative. A social media manager needs to make sure his or her accounts are strategic, cohesive and engaging. One way to achieve those goals is to take the time to map out the content available. For the university accounts, we use a content calendar (see our example calendar to the right) to make those decisions. We’ll note everything from universit...
Dr. Rachael Blasiman, associate professor-psychology at Kent State Salem, received the 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award, sponsored by the Kent State Alumni Association. This is the university’s most prestigious honor in teaching. She began teaching on the Salem Campus in 2010 and became a full-time instructor in 2012. Blasiman received a Bachelor of Science in biology from Mount Union University, followed by a Master of Arts and a doctorate degree in experimental psychology from Case Western Reserve University. At Case Western, Blasiman taught two courses and served in its Seminar A...
Competitive, multiplayer computer gaming is a favorite pastime for the average college student, both playing and watching. In fact, Forbes magazine reports that video games get more viewership from the 18-25 age demographic in the U.S. than the NBA Finals or the World Series. Colleges and universities across the U.S. are starting to embrace the phenomenon through their extracurricular and varsity sports programs, including Kent State University and its regional campuses. Kent State Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center Esports Club and Team Flashbang were established during s...
As the champagne flowed Oct. 15 in the clubhouse of the National League Champion Washington Nationals, there was a Kent State University connection in the middle of the frenzy that capped the team’s first trip to the World Series. “It’s just an unbelievable time, and I’m so grateful I’m here,” said Dan Armelli less than 24 hours after being doused with bubbly while doing his job as the team’s manager of new media. “Ever since I knew I wanted to work in social media for a pro sports team, the dream was to win a championship with a group of players that were fun and (who) recognized w...
Technology and computers have always interested Kent State University College of Nursing Senior Lecturer Jeremy Jarzembak, RN, who co-coordinates the Olga A. Mural Simulation Lab and teaches informatics at both the undergraduate and graduate level. The field of informatics focuses on trends in data, such as electrocardiograms, lab values, or medication administration procedures among other designated tasks, in order to provide a specific point of care for clinicians. To Jarzembak, it is the backbone of modern nursing. “Informatics does not make the decisions for healthcare providers, but it ...
Huntertones are based around jazz, rock, funk, and soul will return to their home state for a show at the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University - Tuscarawas on November 6 at 7:30 p.m. Huntertones brings people together around the globe with fun, imaginative and fearless music. Their high energy, horn-driven sound fuses inspired improvisation and adventurous composition melding jazz, funk, rock, and soul. Adding depth and contrast to their live set, Huntertones shift from a dynamic six-piece ensemble to a trio featuring saxophone, sousaphone, and beat-boxing, keeping thei...
Many people know Jeffrey Miller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph that shows his body on the ground with a 14-year-old runaway screaming over him after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a group of Kent State University students, killing four, including Miller, and wounding nine others on May 4, 1970. What people may not know is Miller was from Plainview, New York. According to his mom, he had a great sense of humor and liked the Mets, music, math and motorcycles. In 1970, Miller had transferred to Kent State from Michigan State University. He died at the age of 20. Guests of K...
Kent State Researchers Receive Federal Grant for Teacher Training A trio of Kent State University researchers has landed a large federal grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to apply a novel video technology to train future teachers. The agency recently awarded a three-year, $1.48 million grant to Karl Kosko, Ph.D., associate professor of mathematics education; Richard Ferdig, PhD., professor of educational technology, both in the College of Education, Health and Human Services; and Cheng Chang Lu, Ph.D., professor of computer science in the College of Arts and Sciences, ...
Kent State’s Precision Flight ranked third overall last week at the Region III Safecon, National Intercollegiate Flying Association (NIFA) Competition at The Ohio State University (OSU) securing its place in the national competition. Kent State’s ranking at the regional competition means they will compete May 18-23, 2020, for the National Competition in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, at the Wittman Regional Airport. NIFA serves as a forum for collegiate aviators to expand their studies and further their careers by participating in competitive and non-competitive events, networking with industry leader...
Mitch Landrieu, the New Orleans mayor who oversaw the removal of the city’s prominent Confederate monuments and helped his city to recover and reemerge from a series of natural disasters, will speak at Kent State as part of the university’s May 4 Speaker Series. Landrieu’s 2017 speech, delivered in conjunction with the removal of the last of the four monuments, continues to earn praise for its honesty in confronting the truth about the past in order to chart a new path forward. In his 2018 New York Times bestselling book that followed, “In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confront...