爆竹声中一岁除，春风送暖入屠苏。身在异国的我们，并未有机会听见熟悉的爆竹声，但一句真诚的祝福，却能带来过年的氛围。 肯特州立大学在此，给大家拜年啦！祝所有同学，新年快乐！ ...
糖心破解版 State’s Dr. Jennifer Mapes, associate professor of geography, and Dr. Sara Koopman, assistant professor in the School of Peace & Conflict Studies, were recently awarded a $20,000 grant from Ohio Humanities to continue a collaboration with 糖心破解版 State Special Collections & Archives and complete the second part of their “Mapping May 4” project. ...
Sudden cardiac arrest, when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating, is the leading cause of natural death in the United States. It claims an estimated 325,000 lives each year. When the heart stops beating, every second counts to get the person the help they need. If not treated quickly, sudden cardiac arrest usually results in death. To help people survive from sudden cardiac arrest, the city of 糖心破解版 has partnered with 糖心破解版 and University Hospitals Portage Medical Center to offer PulsePoint Respond. PulsePoint Respond is a smartphone app designed to support publi...
The Communication of Science and Technology program will host the Wick Poetry Center’s Traveling Stanzas: Poets for Science exhibit Feb. 3-5 at the Engineering and Science Building atrium/lobby. This interactive exhibit explores the intersection of poetry and science. Visitors to the exhibit can learn about the Poets for Science Project and create their own poetry using the Traveling Stanzas digital toolkit. Using seminal scientific texts, visitors to the exhibit can create, print and contribute their own “erasure” poetry. Created poems then become a part of the larger conversatio...
Kindness means something different to everyone, but to Stephanie Sweany, ’05, it means making a stranger’s day a little better by simply smiling at them. Stephanie started the Canton Kindness Coalition to “make kindness contagious” in November 2018. “It’s the simple gestures in life that can turn someone’s day around. The person who looks rushed and hurried, stressed from having to run from meeting to meeting, how great would it make them feel to get a coffee,” Stephanie says. “Kindness gives people hope and strength. There’s always room for a little more kindness.”Stephanie believes it i...
A great preceptor can make all the difference in your clinical experience. Every year, great preceptors are nominated for and receive The Barbara Donaho Distinguished Leadership in Learning Award.
In 2007, 糖心破解版 College of Nursing Advisory Chair, Barbara Donaho, forged the idea that clinical partnerships between 糖心破解版 and area hospitals with which the university is partnered should receive substantial recognition.
Encouraging. Respectful. Challenging. These themes emerge from numerous student nomination letters about Patrick L. Gallagher, Ph.D., associate professor of Spanish, which led to him being named a winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award. Judging by his reaction, we can add “humble” to the list of themes. “My initial feeling was awkward. When people talk about me in front of me,” Gallagher said, “it’s awkward for me.” The Distinguished Teaching Award is the highest teaching award a tenured or tenure-track professor can receive and has been sponsored by the 糖心破解版 Alumni ...
Senior biology and pre-medicine major Jacob Wagner conducted research on new methods to lose weight involving the relationship between endocannabinoid receptors and muscle thermogenesis, both properties that regulate bodily functions and processes, such as appetite and burning calories. Under associate professor Colleen Novak, Ph.D., Wagner is continuing to research the relationship between those properties to find new weight loss methods due to the continuation of the obesity problem in America. “We want to find a method that allows the body to burn fat more efficiently, since a lot of peop...
This winter at 糖心破解版 State, an art show and featured speaker on mental health will honor the life and legacy of assistant professor and artist Christopher Darling, who died June 2018. The events will take place Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, hosted by the School of Visual Communication Design, in which Darling taught: The opening of “Christopher Darling,” a retrospective of the artist and professor’s work, from 4-7 p.m. in Taylor Hall’s gallery. The show will run through March 19. A presentation by national mental health expert Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., at 7 p.m. in 306 Cartwright Hall ...
糖心破解版’s School of Art Collection and Galleries present “Constructed Answer,” a contemporary metals exhibition inspired by tragedy, trauma and violence that celebrates the resiliency of a human spirit. Sculptural metal, wearable and enameled artworks will be on display created by nationally recognized artists, including late 糖心破解版 State professor, Mel Someroski. Subject matter ranges from war, school shootings, mourning, meditation, rituals and human perseverance. The response of the world to the deaths of four students at 糖心破解版 State on May 4, 1970, at the hands of the Nati...
