The 2019 Distinguished Teaching Awards and Outstanding Teaching Awards Recipients Announced A new crop of Kent State University professors was added to the exclusive group of faculty members who have received the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the University Teaching Council’s Outstanding Teaching Award. The Distinguished Teaching Award was established in 1967 and this year, the Alumni Association recognized three faculty members for their excellence in classroom teaching. The 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients include: Rachael Blasiman, Psyc...
Kent State Ashtabula is excited to be a part of Kent State’s “Giving Tuesday” month long event! The official kick off and opportunity for donations begins Friday, Nov. 1. https://flashes.givetokent.org/Ashtabula-Rising The Kent State University at Ashtabula Rising Scholars Program is designed to increase the number of students who continue their education beyond high school, are college ready and enter the workforce with skills that will enhance the economic growth of the region. Here are couple ways you can support this effort. Make a gift be...
Congratulations to Dr. Deric Kenne, associate professor, and his team on receiving a 5-year grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The $1.5 million project, titled the Northeast Ohio Tri-County Prevention Infrastructure, is an effort that will work to prevent the onset and reduce the progression of alcohol and other drug use in individuals nine to 20 years of age in Geauga, Lake and Portage counties. The project is a collaboration between Dr. Kenne’s Division of Mental Health and Substance Use in the College’s Center for Public Policy & Health...
Kent State University’s College of Public Health is teaming up with the Department of Computer Science to develop and implement drug prevention infrastructure in Portage, Geauga and Lake counties. Deric Kenne, Ph.D., associate professor of health policy and management in Kent State’s College of Public Health, and his team have received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The project and associated personnel will be housed in the university’s Center for P...
Kent State University will hold its annual Veterans Day Commemoration at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 7, in the Kent Student Center Kiva. The program, Honoring All Those Who Serve, will include a flag-raising ceremony conducted by a joint color guard from the Army and Air Force ROTC programs on the Student Green at Risman Plaza at 10:45 a.m., the national anthem and the “Service Song Medley” performed by Corinne VanNatta, an invocation by Rev. John Schluep and remarks from Kent State President Todd Diacon. Serving as master of ceremonies is N.J. Akbar, Ph.D. Akbar is an Army veteran who cur...
Kent State University’s newest Flashfleet partnership with company VeoRide is changing the landscape of using a bike-share program on campus. Flashfleet is a bike-share program Kent State has in place for students, faculty, staff and surrounding community members. The university uses a mobility share company to partner with, and this year has introduced VeoRide. After the previous Flashfleet program’s company contract was up, Kent State held meetings with multiple different bike and mobility share companies to find a better fit for both Kent State and the Kent city community. “We chos...
Earlier this semester, a team of nursing students and faculty members volunteered to work at the Rural Area Mobile (RAM) free clinic held at the Covelli Center in Youngstown. The team spent a day working in triage, taking vital signs and collecting health history information from individuals preparing for a medical/dental or a medical/vision visit. The clinic was staffed by area medical professionals who provided free care to all who sought treatment. It is estimated that more than 700 patients were seen that day, receiving nearly $300,000 in free services. Representing Kent...
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The Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) awarded the Kent State Chapter (PRSSA Kent) the highest national honors for a chapter as well as for a student leader this month. PRSSA named Kent State University the winner of the 2019 Outstanding Chapter Award at its International Conference in San Diego, Calif. Public relations major Vanessa Gresley, PRSSA Kent’s vice president of professional relations, earned the Gold Key Award, the highest PRSSA honor for students. PRSSA is a national pre-professional organization for students interested in public relations and communications...