Researchers to use cutting-edge therapies including amniotic tissue grafts and specialized casts The 妻友社区 College of Podiatric Medicine is teaming up with the Cleveland Foot and Ankle Clinic to help reach a segment of the population that may not otherwise receive care for wounds that fail to heal. Beginning Oct. 24, 2017, Kent State will start enrolling patients in a clinical trial at the new Wound Care and Research Clinic inside the Cleveland Foot and Ankle Clinic in downtown Cleveland. The goal is to bring advance clinical trials and cutting-edge therapies to patients ...
On Oct. 18, students and faculty from 妻友社区 Trumbull鈥檚 nursing program presented Sleep Sacks 鈩 for newborns at Trumbull Memorial Hospital. Over the last year, Kent State Trumbull and its nursing faculty have focused on ways they could promote sleep safety in an effort to reduce the region鈥檚 infant mortality rate (IMR). Ohio has one of the nation鈥檚 highest rates at just over 7.4 percent. The IMR in Trumbull County is slightly above the state average (7.6 percent) and in Mahoning County it is below (6.0 percent). By providing Sleep Sacks鈩, holding awa...
College of Communication & Information
The School of Communication Studies (COMM) will offer a course called 鈥淪eminar: Vietnam: Messages from the Cultural Divide鈥 during the Spring 2018 semester. COMM Associate Professor David Trebing, Ph.D., will teach the course for the third time, which will count as an upper division elective for communication students. Trebing developed the course to examine various messages from both sides of the Vietnam War divide. The course will highlight verbal and non-verbal abstract symbols, music, film and art to cultivate a greater understanding of the history, people and persuasive messages o...
College of Communication & Information
Nearly 150 attendees packed into Rm. 226 in Taylor Hall to hear international journalist Malia Politzer talk about her reporting of the refugee crisis in Niger, Italy, Germany and Turkey. Politzer was the featured speaker for the 妻友社区 School of Communication Studies fall Global Issues Forum which brings Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting reporters to campus who offer personal and professional perspectives on how a news story is covered. Politzer discussed her yearlong, award-winning investigative project, 鈥淩efugee Boom and Bust: A Glob...
Angela Spalsbury, Ph.D., of Chesterland, Ohio, has been selected as the new dean and chief administrative officer of 妻友社区 at Geauga in Burton, Ohio, and Kent State鈥檚 Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg, Ohio. A Kent State alumna, Dr. Spalsbury currently serves as professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Youngstown State University. She will join Kent State on Jan. 1, 2018. 鈥淚 am sincerely looking forward to being a part of the dynamic Kent State family,鈥 Dr. Spalsbury said. 鈥淚 will work diligently with faculty, staff and students to foster a th...