Community & Society

Ohio Means Jobs Geauga team member with Kent State Geauga staff

OhioMeansJobs and Kent State Geauga Coordinate to Provide Enhanced Jobs Services

A new partnership between Kent State University Geauga and the OhioMeansJobs Geauga County Center in Chardon means the quality and quantity of employment and training resources for the local workforce have been greatly enhanced.

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Kent State Geauga Greenhouse

Geauga Park District Nurtures Land Stewardship at Kent State Geauga Greenhouse

At this point every winter, cabin fever has set in and most of us are daydreaming about springtime. As land steward for Geauga Park District (GPD) in Chardon, Joel Firem is especially eager to get his hands back into the springtime soil to plant tree and wildflower seedlings.

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IM Summer

Kent State Trumbull Dean Lance Grahn Earns Community Star Award

Lance Grahn, Kent State University at Trumbull’s dean and chief administrative officer, was recently named as one of this year’s Community Star award recipients.

Tags: Community & Society, Kent State University at Trumbull, Awards and Honors

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Taylor Stull, SNA officer; Bill, Wellness Center member; Valerie Salyers, SNA president; Matt, Wellness Center member; Alice Colwell, professor, and SNA advisor; and Bob, Wellness Center member.

Kent State Trumbull’s Nursing Students Launch ‘Walk and Talk with a Nurse’ Program

The Student Nurses Association is putting its best foot forward, hoping to promote healthy lifestyles in the Mahoning Valley with the new program at the Niles Wellness Center, which encourages members to talk and ask questions about health and activity.

Tags: Student Life, Health, Community & Society

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FBI-Released Sketches from Confessed Serial Killer

Video: Anthropology Professor Examines Serial Killer Sketches

Linda Spurlock, Ph.D., spoke to WJW Fox 8 News Cleveland about the recently released victim portraits drawn by Samuel Little, a confessed serial killer from Lorain, Ohio.

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Symone Baskerville Poses in Kent Fabrics During the Grand Opening

Kent State Student Brings High-End Fabric to Downtown Kent

When Symone Baskerville came from Chicago to Kent State to study fashion design, she realized that living so far from home was not nearly as difficult a transition as living in an area with limited choices of fabrics available for to her to use for her class projects. So she changed that by opening Kent Fabrics.

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Kent State Today

Small Town, Big Music Book Cover

Kent’s Rock History is Revealed in New Book by Alumnus

Jason Prufer, '03, a lifelong resident of Kent and Kent State University alumnus, has compiled “Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and Roll,” a book that covers the college town’s impressive – and previously unappreciated – rock history.

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Assistant Professor of Sociology Christopher Dum

Sociology Professor Creates Expressive Program for Inmates

Christopher Dum, Ph.D., created the ID13 Prison Literacy Project to give men in Lake Erie Correctional Institution in Conneaut, Ohio, a positive outlet while serving their sentence, hoping it help inmates to see themselves as writers rather than convicts.

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We Are What We Sell Partial Book Cover

CCI Professor Says Ads Expected the Super Bowl To Be a Man’s Game

Danielle Coombs, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, says Super Bowl ads still target men despite the fact that nearly half of the modern NFL audience identifies as women.

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Kent State Today

Local high schools participate in the Girls4Steam event at Kent State

GIRLS4STEAM 2nd Annual Design Innovation Challenge Inspires Young Women to Use Technology Creatively

Staff and departments from across the university helped to put the event together, including Annette Kratcoski, director of the College of Education, Health and Human Services’ Research Center for Educational Technology; LaunchNET and the University Library Multimedia Services.

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Research Center for Educational Technology (RCET)