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In May of 2019, Dr. Thomas Brewer and Dr. Madhav Bhatta led 26 students to Geneva, Switzerland for the World Health Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters. Students met Dr. Manoj Kurian, a Malaysian medical doctor trained in Community Health and Health Systems Management, who is affiliated with the World Council of Churches. Dr. Kurian arranged for students to meet with speakers in various health fields throughout the week in Geneva. Students also took day trips to Annecy and Chamonix, France, and ascended to the top of Mount Blanc, the tallest mountain in western Europe. Students had t...

Fans of the �������� Golden Flashes looking to follow their favorite players on the court will have to look for their jersey numbers and not their names at a special men’s basketball game later this week. Players will be wearing student-designed uniforms with the space on the back that is usually designated for their names instead displaying the phrase “1 in 59” to promote autism awareness and education. One in 59 The “1 in 59” statistic refers to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that found that one in 59 children is diagnosed as being on the autism spec...

Congratulations to Dr. Tom Brewer, associate professor of Health Policy and Management, for receiving a $59,820 grant to conduct a policy surveillance of Medicaid statutes and regulations related to coverage for podiatric medical services. Dr. Brewer is collaborating with the Center for Public Health Law Research at the Beasley School of Law, Temple University where he holds a research fellowship. Ultimately the data will become part of the LawAtlas Project which makes public health related data available to researchers, policymakers and the public. The project, entitled "Medicaid Coverage f...

�������� at Ashtabula will host a viewing of Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America”, a 2010 selection to the Cleveland Film Festival, in the Main Hall Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2020. The event is free and open to the public. According to promotion for the film, Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4th, and Student Protest in America is the story of a generation of students at ��������, who believed in the 1960s and 1970s that they were not being told the truth about racism, the violence of police and military a...

When it comes to recycling Northeast Ohioans may have some unlearning to do. Nationwide changes for acceptable recycling materials are currently in effect for the region and the Kent Campus. 2020 Kent Campus Recycling Changes: Plastic BOTTLES & JUGS should be placed in our campus RECYCLING. All plastic OTHER THAN bottles and jugs should be placed in LANDFILL containers. Paper cartons are also NOT recyclable. Only plastic bottles and jugs should be placed in recycling containers instead of previously accepted plastics labeled#1-#7. A “bottle” or “jug” is defined as a ...

Hello DI TEAM and REGULAR members! Please read through our recent updates - we have some changes to the planning for the next DI TEAM meeting, plans for engaging all newly-admitted Kent State students with DI, as well as some great progress with students starting the DI Fellows Program! DI Fellows Program: Please welcome the students shown below as the pioneers (and co-designers) of the DI Fellows Program! We started our first meeting by taking a sneek peek tour of the DI HUB. (see attached photo, in case you are not yet following our instagram/facebook feeds). Following the tour we h...

Some people may regard live theater as a frivolous luxury. But Danielle Weiser-Cline sees it as crucial to effective education and essential to civic engagement in a democratic society. Even more fundamentally, she regards live theater as a component of ‘human flourishing.’ Aristotle defined this ancient concept — the inventor of logic — as an effort to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals, each with the right to pursue their own purposes in life. Weiser-Cline is Director of Enrollment Management and Student Services at Kent S...

University Press Nominated for Pen America Literary Award A �������� Press publication, Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape, authored by Deborah Fleming, has been named a finalist for the Pen/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay at the 2020 Pen America Literary Awards Ceremony. The winners will be announced at a March 2 ceremony hosted by Seth Meyers at the Town Hall in New York. “This is a top tier award, and it’s quite an honor to even be in the final five,” said Kenneth J. Burhanna, dean and professor, Kent State ...

��������’s Center for Adult and Veteran Services (CAVS) has been selected as the outstanding undergraduate program for adult learners by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), a leading professional association in student affairs.  In a Feb. 3, 2020, letter to President Todd Diacon, NASPA announced that the CAVS program is the Annual Outstanding Undergraduate Adult Learning Program recipient.  CAVS was selected for the honor by the Adult Learners and Students with Children NASPA Knowledge Community, a group within ...

It was a defining moment for 35-year-old N.J. Akbar, Ph.D., on the day the Detroit native turned Akron resident was publicly recognized for earning his doctoral degree. A moment that almost didn’t happen. “It was surreal, but it was also numbing,” Akbar told WKYC. He earned his doctorate in Cultural Foundations of Education from �������� where he serves as an Assistant Dean in Kent’s University College while simultaneously holding the Vice Presidency position of the Akron Board of Education. Akbar grew up in poverty in Detroit’s 48204 neighborhood, an area once considered on...