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��������’s newest Flashfleet partnership with company VeoRide is changing the landscape of using a bike-share program on campus. Flashfleet is a bike-share program Kent State has in place for students, faculty, staff and surrounding community members. The university uses a mobility share company to partner with, and this year has introduced VeoRide. After the previous Flashfleet program’s company contract was up, Kent State held meetings with multiple different bike and mobility share companies to find a better fit for both Kent State and the Kent city community. “We chos...

A national shortage of one million nurses by 2020 is predicted. In Northeast Ohio, that shortage is estimated to be about 2,850, according to the Nursing Forecaster of the Center for Health Affairs in Cleveland. Kent State’s College of Nursing leaders are keenly aware of the pressing shortage and are making a full-throttle effort to produce ever-increasing numbers of well-prepared nurses. ��������’s College of Nursing is partnering with the School of Theatre and Dance to stage challenging scenarios related to death, mental health crises and more to help student nurses learn ...

Richard Feinberg, Anthropology, Authored a section of a book , A Spiritual Melting Pot: Taumako, Solomon Islands, Haunted Pacific: Anthropologists Investigate Spectral Apparitions Across Oceania, 1st Edition, (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press) Roger Ivar Lohmann, (2019), 90-117. ...

�������� at East Liverpool recognized the academic achievements of several students during its annual scholarship reception.  The scholarships and recipients are: Barnes & Noble Book Scholarship: Abigail Ziegler David T. Mason Memorial Endowed Scholarship: Hannah White Dixie F. Leedy Memorial Scholarship: Mattisyn Infanti  Dr. John W. Hayes Nursing Scholarship: Makayla Ammon Regina Chu Maggie Maharick Kaitlin Reed Danae Stanley Jessica Taylor Friends of the East Liverpool Campus Scholarship: Je...

�������� at Salem recognized the academic achievements of several students during its recent scholarship reception. The awards and recipients are: Alumni Insurance Studies Scholarship: Jessica Burdette Alyssa Card Myranda Joseph Robin Kovacs Elizabeth Wassel Barnes & Noble Book Scholarship: Curtis Carrillo BSN Nursing Scholarship: Nicole Smith College Credit Plus Salem Opportunity Scholarship: Cassandra Aldish Maia Amato Katelyn Bailey Madison Berta Laura Blakeman Rachel Bowen Danny Davis Casey Dickey Olivia ...

The University is not just spinning its wheels. Kent State is now recognized as a bronze-level Bicycle Friendly University by the League of American Bicyclists. The university joins an elite group of 208 colleges and universities in 47 states and the District of Columbia that are taking action to address the health and environmental challenges facing America by creating campuses that are more welcoming to people who bike. “Congratulations to �������� on its inclusion in an elite class of 48 new and renewing Bicycle Friendly universities nationwide,” said Bill Nesper, ex...

By Becca Sagaris, Health Reporter Kent Stater   Frostbite and hypothermia are two of the most common injuries people suffer from not properly protecting themselves during cold seasons and conditions. Cold conditions include anything that is going to predispose you to having injury from cold weather, said Dr. Lisa Dannemiller, the interim chief university physician at DeWeese Health Center. Such conditions can include being in cold water or being outside when the weather or wind chill is below freezing. “We have had some very mild cases of frostbite,” Dannemiller s...

We are happy to announce that our translation program just received the Alexander Gode Medal awarded by the American Translators Association (ATA).  “The Alexander Gode Medal, ATA's most prestigious award, is presented to an individual or institution in recognition of outstanding service to the translation and interpreting professions.”   Kent State is one of only four institutions to have received the medal since 1981. Dr. Erik Angelone, the coordinator of Kent State’s new Distance Learning Translation M.A. program, attended the 2019 ATA conference in Palms Spring California to...