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Wellness Your Way 2019

Financial Wellness Lunch and Learn: To Your Credit

How much do you really know about credit reports and credit history? On Wed., June 5, from noon - 1 p.m. in Heer Hall or via live streaming, PNC Financial Services will explain why credit is important, as well as how to order, read and analyze your credit report.

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Dr. Matthew Lehnert

Kent State Stark Campus Professor Featured on PBS ‘Nature’ Bonus Segment

Dr. Matthew Lehnert, associate professor of Biological Sciences, and his students at the Kent State Stark Campus are included in “A Butterfly’s Proboscis,” a bonus segment of the full PBS Nature episode called “Sex, Lies and Butterflies.” In the recently released mini episode, Lehnert uses the la…

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Heidi Weisel Lectures on Women's Health

Heidi Weisel, clinical experience specialist, recently became an Ambassador of Women's Health for Days for Girls International. Read the full story at KentWired.com.

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2019 Office Support Staff Recognition Luncheon

Office Support Staff Recognition Luncheon Photos

Were you camera ready? We hope so because photos from the 22nd Annual Office Support Staff Recognition Luncheon are here. Some 300 staffers connected in the Kent Student Center ballroom for live entertainment, fine food, great gifts and lots of laughs. This year’s theme, “Kent State’s G…

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Kent State Wins Volunteer Award from Akron/Canton Food Bank

Kent State Receives Local Volunteer Award

Kent State University was recognized this month by the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank for its volunteer work with the organization last year. In appreciation of the service provided by the university, the foodbank bestowed Kent State with the 2018 Organizational Volunteer Group of the Year award. …

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Kent State Receives Ohio EPA Environmental Excellence Awards

Kent State Receives Ohio EPA Environmental Excellence Awards

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency presented its Encouraging Environmental Excellence (E3) Awards recently at the Ohio EPA’s second Sustainability Conference in Columbus. Doug Pearson, associate vice president of Facilities Planning and Operations (middle) and Melanie Knowles (right), Manag…

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Kent State Day at Progressive Field

Faculty, staff, students and alumni can purchase discount tickets while supplies last for the Cleveland Indians versus the Seattle Mariners on Sunday, May 5 at 1:10 p.m. Pre-game warm-up (11 a.m. – noon) and private party (noon – 1 p.m.) at Flannery’s Pub, 323 Prospect Ave., downtown Clevela…

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Dining Services Gala award 2019

Dining Services Celebrates Second Consecutive Win at Local Gala Fundraiser

Kent State’s Dining Services competed in the 11th annual Nutritious and Delicious Gala at The Tangier restaurant in Akron. The annual gala was hosted by the Greater Akron Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (GAAND) and comprised of various vendors, such as Core Life, Farm Fare, Food 4 Thought Café, a…

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Professors Lovejoy and Raghanti

Kent State Researchers Recognized on WKSU

Kent State professors Owen Lovejoy and Mary Ann Raghanti with the Neuroscience program were featured recently on WKSU. The two worked together on a recent paper that looks at how a neurochemical change in our brains became the turning point in human evolution.

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Employee Wellness On Facebook

All faculty and staff are encouraged to join the Employee Wellness community on Facebook. To join this Kent State University Facebook community use contact "Kim" with password "Wellness Your Way." Everyone who joins by April 15 will be entered to win a prize drawing for a v…

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