COVID-19 HUB

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Kent State University is launching a series of videos showcasing the talents of our faculty and staff aimed at providing an uplifting respite from the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Nursing faculty member Lorene Martin (left) delivered pepperoni rolls to employees at the Salem Regional Medical Center and Danielle Baker-Rose delivered her homemade frosted sugar cookies.

Nurses are known for their compassion, concern and desire to care for others. The nursing faculty at the Kent State Salem Campus recently demonstrated that compassion and care by delivering food to frontline workers at local healthcare facilities.

So how do you successfully relocate a four-year medical school to the comfort of home for an entire college? With anatomy labs, casting and injection workshops, face-to-face patient simulations and more, the team of three had to get creative – and fast.

RN Sarah Pierce-Brown, a member of the nursing faculty at Kent State Salem, at work at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown.

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced its way into our lives, everything changed. At Kent State, faculty members began delivering lessons remotely and students began learning in online classrooms. All student services became remote/online.

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Kent State field hockey defender Clara Rodriguez Seto holds medical masks she has sewn.

As the world continues to deal with "stay-at-home" orders, Kent State rising senior and field hockey defender Clara Rodriguez Seto has found a way to help others from the comforts of home.

Emergency room workers from Cleveland Clinic's Main Campus receive meals from Lago East Bank provided with donations from a Kent State alumnus and others.

A Kent State University alumnus is teaming up with local restaurants and other alumni and friends to help raise money to provide meals to frontline workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Northeast Ohio.