The Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently awarded a $1.5 million, three-year grant to Kent State University College of Nursing research faculty member Jim Tudhope, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC (principal investigator) and his team, Wendy Umberger, Ph.D., RN, PMHCNS-BC, associate dean for graduate programs at Kent State’s College of Nursing (co-investigator), and Jeffrey Moore, M.D., and Vikil Girdhar, M.D., both co-investigators from Portage Path Behavioral Health. Their project, titled Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Prac...
Kent, OH – The Kent State University Museum (KSU Museum) is the recipient of a $171,119 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to upgrade a collection storage room which houses garments from the 17th to early 20th centuries. Through the IMLS agency’s largest competitive grant program, Museums for America, a total of 109 projects were selected from 345 applications. "As pillars of our communities, libraries and museums bring people together by providing important programs, services, and collections. These institutions are trusted spaces where people can learn, explore and gr...
Kent State University students began moving into residence halls on the Kent Campus on Aug. 19, as part of a phased-in process that will continue over five days. Move-in typically takes place over three days, but the university has extended the time this year to lower the density of people on campus due to safety concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic. Jill Jenkins, executive director of Residence Services, said move-in had been much slower and with much less fanfare than the typical first day of move-in when as many as 3,000 students arrived on one day. “This year it’s very paced,” Jenki...
As college students and their parents seek peace of mind and silver linings during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kent State University Geauga and the Twinsburg Academic Center offer a measure of both. By establishing a robust set of safety protocols, instructional options, Wi-Fi connectivity and financial relief, faculty and staff at the Geauga and Twinsburg locations are prepared to welcome an upsurge of students to Fall Semester 2020 when classes begin on Aug. 27. “We have actually seen an increase of about 10% of transfer students from other colleges for the Fal...
Among the festivities marking the beginning of this unconventional semester, one Kent State University office is partnering with Portage County social service agencies to host a contactless food drive to collect items that will support members of campus and local communities. The Flashes Fighting Hunger Contactless Food Drive, organized by Kent State’s Community Engaged Learning, will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 26, from 4-8 p.m. Those wishing to donate nonperishable food and toiletry items can proceed in their cars to the intersection of Lincoln Street and Hilltop Drive, near Rock...