Wanting a career that would allow her to be independent and work from anywhere, Erin Shelley, Ed.D., MA, BSN ‘91, RN, was drawn to the nursing profession. These days, however, she practices nursing as “art imitating life” through her role as a technical expert on the hit NBC television show, Chicago Med. “My primary role is an operating room nurse. I perform clinical duties alongside the actors so they can focus on the delivery of their lines,” said Shelley. “Most of our surgeries involve exposed beating hearts, breathing lungs, bursting arteries and more, so I also follow the direction of ...
Kent State University’s College of Public Health has received a $375,000 grant that will be used to provide mental health awareness training to personnel in Medina County public schools. The three-year grant, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will enable the college’s Center for Public Policy and Health to collaborate with Medina County’s Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Board to provide the training. The partnership recently was featured in an article in the Medina Gazette. Deric Keene, associate professor and associate director of the Divisio...
Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Keynote Address with Angela Rye
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019
3:30 p.m.
Kent Student Center Ballroom, Kent Campus
This event is free and open to the public but a ticket is required to attend.
Angela Rye, principal and CEO of IMPACT Strategies, lawyer, political strategist and former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, to serve as keynote speaker. A prominent political strategist, lawyer and advocate for positive change in the political process will serve as the keynote speaker at Kent State University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Angela Rye, principal and CEO of IMPACT Strategies, will join the university in celebrating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 23 at 3:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. Ms. Rye offer...
The work of 153 ecological researchers from 40 countries, including Kent State University Assistant Professor Dave Costello, Ph.D., from the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, has revealed new findings on the effect of climatic factors on river-based ecosystems. The findings are published in the latest issue of the journal Science Advances. “This is the largest such study, with respect to spatial coverage, and allows us to study carbon cycling in streams at unprecedented global scales,” said Dr. Costello, who serves as second author on this paper. “We are...