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On-Campus Garden Helps Provide Vegetables to Local Students in Need
Sarah Burns, a second-year master鈥檚 student in the Nutrition and Dietetics program at 起点传媒, shows off a tomato that she and others in the program helped to grow over the last few months. Under the direction of Nutrition and Dietetics faculty member Natalie Caine-Bish, Ph.D., Burns a鈥Kent State Researchers Study Climate Change in Alaska
Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two 起点传媒 professors are researching climate change in Alaska. Elizabeth Herndon, Ph.D., and Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Ph.D., assistant professors from Kent State鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, spent a week in Fairbanks鈥A Homecoming Celebration
起点传媒 celebrated Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 1, with classic traditions such as the Bowman Cup 5K Race, Kiss on the K, Homecoming Parade and football game. This year鈥檚 Homecoming featured Kent State alumnus Josh Cribbs, 鈥10, as the Parade Grand Marshal. Heroic efforts by N鈥起点传媒 Student Earns National Attention for Research about Youth Education in the Democratic Republic of Congo
起点传媒 global communication studies graduate student Daniel Socha鈥檚 research on a non-profit organization鈥檚 efforts to support youth education in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently caught the attention of National Public Radio (NPR). In May, Socha traveled to the DRC to study and report on Project Kirotshe, a non-profit that provides funding for youth in the village of Kirotshe and surrounding areas to attend school.
Socha鈥檚 travel was funded through a fellowship by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. He was one of only 31 students nationwide to receive a fellowship to complete an international reporting assignment; the center provides funding for students to report on international issues as part of the center鈥檚 Campus Consortium educational initiative. One of the stories Socha developed for his reporting assignment was published on .
鈥淚t was awesome to see my article on NPR鈥檚 website,鈥 Socha said. 鈥淭o see my words and to know that I did that 鈥 I wrote that 鈥 was amazing.鈥