Your Employee Wellness Team is pleased to introduce Wellable, our newest wellness partner. Wellable provides an online platform, resources and app integration formerly found in our partnership with the Wellness Council of America (WELCOA). As we incorporate programs from Wellable's library of customizable challenges, we seek to fulfill our commitment to bring quality, research-based health promoting information and opportunities to the faculty and staff of Kent State University. We hope you will join us for our first Wellable challenge – Sleep Tight Tonight, which will focus on physic...
The COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home order remind Emeritus Professor and former Chair of the Teaching, Leadership, and Curriculum Studies Department Doris Simonis of her previous experiences with social distancing. Inside her current home at the Laurel Lake Retirement Community Simonis shared personal stories from her childhood where being diagnosed with certain illnesses would require her to be isolated at home or in a sanatorium for up to months at a time. In a post on the Laurel Lake Retirement Community Facebook page, Simonis described her experiences of when she had whooping cough...
2020 Voluntary Separation Incentive Program Update Eligible employees should have received an email yesterday from Faculty/Staff News Now with detailed information related to the Voluntary Incentive Separation Program. Any employee who has questions may contact Human Resources at hrweb@kent.edu. Learn more. Community Engaged Learning Launches Faculty Contemplating COVID-19 Stephanie Smith, associate professor in the College of Communication and Information, kicked off the first edition of Contemplating COVID-19 With KSU Faculty, a new, weekly series. Contempl...
Kent State University Geauga and the Twinsburg Academic Center is pleased to recognize Spring 2020 graduates. Over 180 students earned their associate or bachelor’s degrees, and those students who completed the RSVP to the Kent State Virtual Commencement Ceremony were acknowledged on Saturday, May 9, 2020, at 11 AM. Please visit the Kent State University Commencement webpage for more information regarding the virtual ceremony; the recordings are available to view at any time. Name Degree Asia Nicole Austin Associate of Arts Nicholas Anthony Br...
肯特州立大学护理学院是美国最大、最全面的护理项目之一，已有50多年的历史。作为肯特州立大学八校区系统的一部分，该学院为2000多名护理专业学生提供学士学位、硕士学位和博士学位课程。学院内拥有在领先的临床经验以及最新的模拟实验室，使学生可以在课堂上以及在未来的实践环境中获得宝贵的经验。肯特州立大学的护理学学士学位课程，护理学硕士学位课程，护理实践博士课程和APRN研究生证书课程获得了美国大学护理教育委员会的认证。
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In his professional career as a glassblower, Kent State University alumnus Dan Alexander has done a lot in the decade since graduating with a B.F.A. in Craft in 2010. From humble beginnings in the hot shop at Hale Farm and Village, he has since traveled the world as an educator and demonstrator for the Corning Museum of Glass, working with some of the best in the field along the way. With a body of work that varies widely in style and technique, ranging from functional vessels to large scale sculpture, Dan has found success in both the Craft and Fine Art worlds. He is currently serving as hots...
Geology PhD candidate Md Abu Raihan Chowdhury is the 2020 recipient of the Mineralogical Society of America's Grant from the Edward H. Kraus Crystallographic Research Fund. The award is $5000 for research expenditures. Raihan's proposal is entitled "The role of mineral surface coatings on colloids in controlling metal transport in acid mine drainage-impacted areas." The Mineralogical Society of America's Grant for Research in Crystallography is funded by the Edward H. Kraus Crystallographic Research Fund with contributions from MSA members and friends. The grant awards up to $5,00...
Spring Commencement is traditionally one of the biggest nights of celebration for our campus each year. However, this year's celebration can't be held in person - but that doesn't mean our graduates aren't worth celebrating. In addition to the obstacles students traditionally face and overcome on the way to graduation, this last semester has added the challenges associated with remote instruction, stay at home orders, new uncertainties and more. The faculty and staff want to share special messages with members of the Spring 2020 graduating class. All of us at Kent State Ashtabula are proud of...