Sudden cardiac arrest, when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating, is the leading cause of natural death in the United States. It claims an estimated 325,000 lives each year. When the heart stops beating, every second counts to get the person the help they need. If not treated quickly, sudden cardiac arrest usually results in death. To help people survive from sudden cardiac arrest, the city of Kent has partnered with 妻友社区 and University Hospitals Portage Medical Center to offer PulsePoint Respond. PulsePoint Respond is a smartphone app designed to support publi...
The Communication of Science and Technology program will host the Wick Poetry Center鈥檚 Traveling Stanzas: Poets for Science exhibit Feb. 3-5 at the Engineering and Science Building atrium/lobby. This interactive exhibit explores the intersection of poetry and science. Visitors to the exhibit can learn about the Poets for Science Project and create their own poetry using the Traveling Stanzas digital toolkit. Using seminal scientific texts, visitors to the exhibit can create, print and contribute their own 鈥渆rasure鈥 poetry. Created poems then become a part of the larger conversatio...
A great preceptor can make all the difference in your clinical experience. Every year, great preceptors are nominated for and receive The Barbara Donaho Distinguished Leadership in Learning Award.
In 2007, 妻友社区 College of Nursing Advisory Chair, Barbara Donaho, forged the idea that clinical partnerships between 妻友社区 and area hospitals with which the university is partnered should receive substantial recognition.
Encouraging. Respectful. Challenging. These themes emerge from numerous student nomination letters about Patrick L. Gallagher, Ph.D., associate professor of Spanish, which led to him being named a winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award. Judging by his reaction, we can add 鈥渉umble鈥 to the list of themes. 鈥淢y initial feeling was awkward. When people talk about me in front of me,鈥 Gallagher said, 鈥渋t鈥檚 awkward for me.鈥 The Distinguished Teaching Award is the highest teaching award a tenured or tenure-track professor can receive and has been sponsored by the 妻友社区 Alumni ...
Senior biology and pre-medicine major Jacob Wagner conducted research on new methods to lose weight involving the relationship between endocannabinoid receptors and muscle thermogenesis, both properties that regulate bodily functions and processes, such as appetite and burning calories. Under associate professor Colleen Novak, Ph.D., Wagner is continuing to research the relationship between those properties to find new weight loss methods due to the continuation of the obesity problem in America. 鈥淲e want to find a method that allows the body to burn fat more efficiently, since a lot of peop...
This winter at Kent State, an art show and featured speaker on mental health will honor the life and legacy of assistant professor and artist Christopher Darling, who died June 2018. The events will take place Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, hosted by the School of Visual Communication Design, in which Darling taught: The opening of 鈥淐hristopher Darling,鈥 a retrospective of the artist and professor鈥檚 work, from 4-7 p.m. in Taylor Hall鈥檚 gallery. The show will run through March 19. A presentation by national mental health expert Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., at 7 p.m. in 306 Cartwright Hall ...
Spring Internship, Co-op & Career Fair The Spring Internship, Co-op & Career Fair is one month away. Please consider how you canshare the value of this great opportunity with your students this semester.This spring鈥檚 fair is on Thurs., Feb. 20, from 11 a.m. 鈥 3 p.m.,in theBeverly J. Warren Student Recreation and Wellness Center (SRWC). The event is open to all KSU students and alumni of all majors seeking internships, co-ops, full-time, part-time, and on-campus student employment opportunities. Benefits for students attending the fair include: Familiarizing themsel...
妻友社区鈥檚 School of Art Collection and Galleries present 鈥淐onstructed Answer,鈥 a contemporary metals exhibition inspired by tragedy, trauma and violence that celebrates the resiliency of a human spirit. Sculptural metal, wearable and enameled artworks will be on display created by nationally recognized artists, including late Kent State professor, Mel Someroski. Subject matter ranges from war, school shootings, mourning, meditation, rituals and human perseverance. The response of the world to the deaths of four students at Kent State on May 4, 1970, at the hands of the Nati...
Researchers publish Insight Analysis and Detection of Drug-Abuse Risk Behavior on Twitter with Self-Taught Deep Learning. Using online social media and deep self-taught learning, researchers work to detect drug-abuse, a wicked public health problem in the United States. The entire article can be found: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40649-019-0071-4.pdf ...
Researchers publish Insight Analysis and Detection of Drug-Abuse Risk Behavior on Twitter with Self-Taught Deep Learning. Using online social media and deep self-taught learning, researchers work to detect drug-abuse, a wicked public health problem in the United States. The entire article can be found: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40649-019-0071-4.pdf ...
