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�������� at Ashtabula celebrated 50 years of excellence in nursing education on Oct. 1. The event, held at Robert S. Morrison Hall, welcomed alumni from all graduating classes, supporters and community members for dinner and an address from keynote speaker Jeanne Novotny, Ph.D., RN, FAAN. Novotny was one of the first nursing faculty at Kent State Ashtabula and a past director of the Kent State Ashtabula nursing program. She is now the dean of the Texas Tech Health Services Center in El Paso, Texas. Her address centered on the history of nursing education after World War II, the...

The green- and blue-colored algae that grows out of control and often washes up on the shoreline of Lake Erie is not only unsightly but also harmful to many species, including humans. In Ohio, the western basin of Lake Erie has experienced some of the worst harmful algal blooms in recent years. The blooms have been detected this summer, as they were last summer when the area saw a harmful bloom of record size. In August 2014, cyanobacteria from a harmful algal bloom contaminated the city of Toledo’s water supply and residents were forced to find alternative water sources. To help fight t...

Employees enrolled in one of the university-sponsored group health plans through Medical Mutual or Anthem are eligible for a free flu shot. You must bring your insurance ID card with you to the clinic. If you are not covered by one of the university’s group health plans, you can still participate for $30 (check payable to ��������). The following clinics are available. Registration is required. Location Date Time Kent Campus - Library Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Second Floor  ...

All Employee Webinar �������� is committed to raising awareness about depression in the workplace, reducing stigma associated with mental illness, and most importantly, bringing awareness and resources to support treatment and self-care. Please join Lisa Kirby, MFT, PC, of IMPACT Solutions Employee Assistance and Work/Life Program (EAP), along with Kim Hauge, Kent State’s manager of employee wellness, on Nov. 10 from 10-11 a.m. for an informative webinar about Right Direction, an initiative of the Partnership for Workplace Mental Health.  In this webinar, you will le...

The Educational Psychology classes taught by Anne Morrison, Ph.D., a professor in the College of Education, Health and Human Services, have been taking field trips to Little Italy and University Circle in Cleveland for the past 20 years to help them create integrated lesson plans as a course assignment. This semester, more than 30 mentors, students and some of their parents and friends started the trip with Morrison with pizza from Little Italy’s Mama Santa’s Restaurant and then walked to Lake View Cemetery, a nationally recognized landmark where President James A. Garfield and John D. Rock...

The Division of Human Resources is pleased to co-host its second child car seat safety inspection of 2016 on Tuesday, Nov. 8, from 3-6 p.m. at ��������’s Child Development Center, located at 775 Loop Road in Kent. Four out of five car seats are installed incorrectly. Keep your child safe by making sure your child’s car seat is properly installed. If you have more than one car seat or base, feel free to have them each inspected.  Certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians from the Portage County Health Department will conduct child car seat inspections. Kent State Poli...

Mamoun Alzoubi, Department of English, presented a paper, “Richard Wright and Transnationalism: A Reading of Pagan Spain,” at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 26-29, 2016, in San Francisco, California. ...

Familiar Face Lisa Waite Senior Lecturer Communication Studies Stark Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I am a resident communication faculty who teaches a variety of upper- and lower-division communication courses, and I also oversee internship and practicum field experiences for our communication majors. In addition to my teaching, I partner with our (�������� at Stark) Corporate University to offer professional development training to local businesses. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 1995 as part time and started full time in August of 1997 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KE...

New Face Michael Storay II Admissions Counselor Admissions Office Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Serve prospective students in efforts to bring undergraduate students to �������� through various initiatives. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: April 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Quicken Loans Inc. LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The friendly people and the beautiful campus ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Felt that �������� provides great opportunities for me to grow and develop as a young p...

Physical activity is essential to fighting obesity, and scientists are constantly working to make this activity more effective and beneficial. A $450,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health will help biology professor Colleen Novak, Ph.D., from ��������’s College of Arts and Sciences better understand how the body allocates energy and burns fat. In her project, “Mechanisms Underlying Contextual Induction of Muscle Thermogenesis,” Novak is studying the biological phenomenon known as thermogenesis — how the body burns caloric energy, turning it into heat. “We are go...