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Alumnus Uses Experience with Student Organizations to Help Create Non-Profit

Joseph Napier co-founded a local non-profit organization called the Youngstown Creative Collective that helps raise awareness for small businesses in the inner city of Youngstown.

Regional Brain Bee champion headed to National Brain Bee

Record-Breaking Latino Education Summit Hosted at Kent State

The 2019 Ohio Latino Education Summit broke the record for registration numbers when ��㴫ý hosted it for the first time in November. The Ohio Latino Education Summit is an annual event that brings students, educators and congressional leaders together to discuss issues that impact the education of Latinos in Ohio.

Where is he now? 50 years After May 4, 1970

Dean Kahler was one of the nine students wounded in the May 4, 1970, shootings at ��㴫ý that also claimed the lives of four students during protests of the Vietnam War. Kahler’s long-time friend, Paul Keane, recently told the story to Cleveland.com of their friendship and what Kahler has been up to since that fateful day.

Kent State Research Review: Fertile Ground

The National Institutes of Health thinks Aleisha Moore, Ph.D., is onto something in her study of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; the agency recently awarded her its most prestigious research training grant, a K99/R00 “Pathway to Independence Award”—a first for Kent State.

Across Time: Students Display Their Connection to May 4

The events of May 4, 1970, mark an important time for current students to reflect and connect to the ones who shaped history almost five decades ago. Today, the similarities between the lives of May 4 students and today’s students seem more pertinent than ever. Jacqueline Marino and David Foster in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication teamed up to have students in both of their classes collaborate on a project that gave students today a way to consider the events of May 4, 1970.

Kent State Honors 2020 Diversity Award Recipients

As part of its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration held Jan. 24, ��㴫ý has announced the 2020 recipients of its Diversity Trailblazer Award, Beverly J. Warren Unity Award for Diversity and Rozell Duncan Student Diversity Award.

Kent State Researcher Studies Obesity in At-Risk Youth to Help Reveal Path to Healthy, Mindful Eating

Weight management can be challenging for all adolescents, but those from low-income families face added stressors that can make weight loss even more difficult.

Those are the findings of Amy Sato, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, who has been studying the connection between obesity and low-income youth for more than seven years.

City of Kent Partners With Kent State and UH to Launch New Lifesaving Tool

Sudden cardiac arrest, when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating, is the leading cause of natural death in the United States. To help people survive from sudden cardiac arrest, the city of Kent has partnered with ��㴫ý and University Hospitals Portage Medical Center to offer PulsePoint Respond.

A Professor’s Passion and Respect Earns the Distinguished Teaching Award

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 “humble” to the list of themes.

Kent State Research Review 2019: Finding New Methods to Lose Weight

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.

Art Show, Mental Health Discussion Will Honor Beloved VCD Professor’s Legacy

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.