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Today’s Flashes of Inspiration features David Hassler, director of Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center, who is sharing the poem, “Thank You, Tree.” The poem was written by Fatou M’Baye, a fifth grade student at Holden Elementary School in Kent, in honor of a favorite tree that was on her school playground, where she would gather with her friends.   Hassler selected this poem to celebrate spring, Earth Day, and how all can enjoy and celebrate the beauty of nature even during a pandemic. The poem is features on the Wick Poetry Center’s Traveling Stanzas community poetry site, un...

Community Engaged Learning has created a landing page that currently features three interviews in its ongoing series about faculty dealing with COVID-19. In this new weekly series, Kent State faculty members from a variety of academic disciplines are interviewed for their thought-provoking perspectives about the ongoing pandemic. The newest editions feature Chi-hua Chui, Ph.D. (pictured); J. Leigh Garcia and Julie Mazzei, Ph.D. Learn more. ...

CPM Associate Professor Mark Dalman’s study of bacteria in area gyms was cited or referenced in numerous publications like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Men’s Health Magazine. Environmental swabs were taken from 288 gym surfaces at several fitness facilities across Northeast Ohio, including Cross-Fit type centers, traditional iron gyms, community center-based and hospital-associated facilities. Samples were taken from 18 different surfaces at each facility to look at not only whether Staphylococcus aureus was present on these various surfaces but also PCR was used to id...

Meet the professor in the university’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering tasked with helping to ensure passengers travel safely through U.S. airport terminals: I. Richmond Nettey. Learn more. ...

Dana Hansen, Ph.D., APRN, ACHPN, Amy Petrinec, Ph.D., RN, and Tracey Motter, DNP, RN, researchers from Kent State College of Nursing, along with Maureen Keeley, Ph.D., Texas State, have developed a website to offer information, support via blog participation and research opportunities for family caregivers of those touched by a serious or critical illness during the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit the College of Nursing website to learn more. All research is IRB approval from the �������� IRB. The following research opportunities can be found on the website: Please consider partic...

College of Nursing Provides Resources for Families Suffering from COVID-19 Dana Hansen, Ph.D., APRN, ACHPN, Amy Petrinec, Ph.D., RN, and Tracey Motter, DNP, RN, researchers from Kent State College of Nursing, along with Maureen Keeley, Ph.D., Texas State, have developed a website to offer information, support via blog participation and research opportunities for family caregivers of those touched by a serious or critical illness during the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit the College of Nursing website to learn more. All research is IRB approval from the �������� IRB. The followin...

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Graduate students in the College of Communication and Information spent the second half of the Spring 2020 semester applying course material in real time as they examined how classrooms were adapting to new ways of learning during COVID-19. In the seminar course Communication in an Information Society (offered in the School of Communication Studies), the students had been reading and discussing literature on the effects of communication and technology in our world. When educational institutions across the country shifted to remote instruction in mid-March, it became clear that technology wa...

Students in the class Communication in a Global Society worked in teams throughout the Spring 2020 semester to educate audiences about one specific aspect of globalization and ecology: fast fashion.  The goal, according to Associate Professor Stephanie Danes Smith, was “to look at whether Kent State students can present information about highly relevant issues like fast fashion and get their fellow students to commit to a single, simple behavioral change.” The students were required to create events around fast fashion and its harmful impacts on both the planet and people. “The w...