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Woman with notebook and young child playing on the floor

鈥淧arenting students face numerous challenges on their way to degree completion; we can help remove many of those barriers and challenges.鈥 Being a college student is tough enough for most, but for those who are also parenting young children or caring for loved ones 鈥 in addition to other responsibilities like work, managing a household, and appointments 鈥 going to class and succeeding can seem like a daunting task. 妻友社区 at Ashtabula Associate Professor of Sociology Jessica Leveto, Ph.D., understands the challenges faced by those students better than most. She earn...

Professor Ikram Toumi instructs a class

Introducing new perspectives can help students learn about unique cultures and explore similarities and differences. Ikram Toumi, an assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies, has brought that possibility to 妻友社区 with her global education initiatives. Originally from Tunisia, Toumi is tri-lingual, speaking Arabic, English and French, which fuels her interest in multicultural and socially diverse dimensions of global media and communication. She also works on social change, social movements, media literacy, globalization, immigration, acculturation and id...

Kent State Researchers Help Find Pathologic Hallmarks of Alzheimer's Disease In Aged Chimpanzee Brains

Since completion of her Ph.D. in 2016, Assistant Professor Melissa Edler and her colleagues have secured more than $2 million in research funding for examining aging and neurodegenerative diseases. Eventually, this research could help millions of people find a better way to combat and live with harsh brain diseases.  Edler began examining the brains of aged chimpanzees for Alzheimer鈥檚 disease (AD) pathology as part of her dissertation at 妻友社区. AD is characterized by the buildup of two toxic proteins, amyloid-beta (A尾) which forms plaques and tau which is associated...

It鈥檚 no secret that we think KSUCPM alumni are among the best in the nation. Think we鈥檙e biased? Check out the August 2022 issue of Cleveland Magazine - specifically page 74 which calls out nine KSUCPM alumni as some of the best doctors in Cleveland! The doctors in this feature were selected by Professional Research Services (PRS), which conducted an online peer-review survey of area physicians in Northeast Ohio.  The monthly magazine deems itself the go-to resource on the people, food, arts, entertainment, shopping and news that define the city of Cleveland. Now, our very own former s...

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