We sat down with Dr. Rebecca Meehan of the School of Information (iSchool) to talk about the release of her new book as well as the recent accreditation of the Health Informatics (HI) program and what it all means for students who are looking to start a new career, change careers or move to a different type of job within the broad world of healthcare and information.  CCI: First off, congratulations on publishing your book. What is it about?Rebecca Meehan: Thank you! This has been a great experience. I wrote this book with John Sharp who is an adjunct professor here in the iSchool. It’s c...

New York couturière designer Pauline Trigère, whose career spanned more than five decades, left behind a legacy of fashion innovation meticulously preserved in volumes of sketchbooks and press clippings.  Those volumes have had a home at Kent State University Libraries since 1993 and soon will be accessible to everyone.  University Libraries received a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project to digitize the entire Trigère collection, which fills more than 10 feet of shelving in the library basem...

Doctoral student Mandalynn Slupek has seen what opioid addiction does to people. Her research at Kent State University into an easily obtained, over-the-counter supplement may curb the urge for opioids before addiction begins. Slupek won first place in Kent State’s Three Minute Thesis competition on Oct. 3 when she presented “Getting the NAC of Being Drug-Free,” research on how the supplement NAC or N-acetyl cysteine can be used in the fight against addiction. Slupek’s project proposes giving people NAC before they take prescription opioids instead of after. If the research is succe...