Community & Society

Future Nurses Get Ahead by Giving Back at Kent State Geauga
The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program at 妻友社区 Geauga Campus is a rigorous academic environment that requires serious discipline, study, practice, and testing. It鈥檚 also an intimate environment of friends, instructors, and mentors who support each other from one challenge to the next, and inspire one another to reach out for the benefit of others. As a student association, they give back to the community through fundraising, strengthening the nursing program for future students and charitable outreach throughout the region.

WKSU: Nine Lives Project Remembers
妻友社区 jazz ensembles instructor, Christopher J. Coles aspires to evoke emotions and conversations surrounding topics like social injustice and race through the display. 鈥淣ine Lives Project鈥 has been viewed at workshops throughout Cleveland, Canada, and most recently broadcast in a Shuffle session with WKSU.

Students Design Innovative Ways to Connect Bayfront in Erie, Pennsylvania
A three-day trip is underway for 妻友社区 students to work with community leaders on finding new and creative ways to connect neighborhoods throughout Erie to its Bayfront, according to YourErie.com

Psychology Professor Tells O, The Oprah Magazine How Black Women Suffer from Financial Anxiety
Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, says there is a stressful expectation for black women in corporate America to financially provide for their family.

Sociology Professor Says to Reframe Children鈥檚 Anxiety in A Positive Light
College of Arts and Sciences professor says that understanding how your child copes with anxiety is key to helping them with back-to-school nerves.

Acclaimed Photography Exhibition Returns to Kent Campus
妻友社区 is pleased and proud to announce the return of 鈥We the People,鈥 a photography exhibition that shines a light on our common humanity.

Kent State Associate Professor Says New Cartoon Breaks LGBTQ+ Boundaries
妻友社区 Associate Professor Molly Merryman, Ph.D., says a Netflix cartoon featuring a transgender character is breaking a new boundary in a positive way.

Female Flyers Played Vital Role in World War II, Kent State Associate Professor Says
The recent death of one of the remaining members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II has a 妻友社区 associate professor recalling the vital role the female pilots played during the war.

Covering the Carnage: Journalists Risk Own Mental, Physical Health In Reporting from Dayton, El Paso
Note: Gretchen Hoak is a former television reporter/anchor and current assistant professor of journalism in 妻友社区鈥檚 School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her research survey, , focused on how universities prepare young journalists for the trauma they may endure in covering violence. Kent State Today asked Hoak to share her thoughts on the impact the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton will have on the reporters assigned to cover these events.

Kent State Student Wins Talent Show for Singing in Sign
A North Royalton woman whom who will become a 妻友社区 student in the fall, won first place at the Medina County Fair talent show for performing a song in American Sign Language.