Community & Society
Wick Poetry Center Recognized for its Tribute to 50th Anniversary of the Cuyahoga River Burning
Wick Poetry Center Director David Hassler was featured on 90.3 WCPN ideastream for his creative efforts in organizing the River Stanzas Project. The project pays tribute to the 50 year anniversary of the environmental protections and improvements that have taken place since the Cuyahoga River Burning in 1969.
OhioMeansJobs and Kent State Geauga Coordinate to Provide Enhanced Jobs Services
A new partnership between Kent State University Geauga and the OhioMeansJobs Geauga County Center in Chardon means the quality and quantity of employment and training resources for the local workforce have been greatly enhanced.
Geauga Park District Nurtures Land Stewardship at Kent State Geauga Greenhouse
At this point every winter, cabin fever has set in and most of us are daydreaming about springtime. As land steward for Geauga Park District (GPD) in Chardon, Joel Firem is especially eager to get his hands back into the springtime soil to plant tree and wildflower seedlings.
Kent State Trumbull Dean Lance Grahn Earns Community Star Award
Lance Grahn, Kent State University at Trumbull鈥檚 dean and chief administrative officer, was recently named as one of this year鈥檚 Community Star award recipients.
Kent State Trumbull鈥檚 Nursing Students Launch 鈥榃alk and Talk with a Nurse鈥 Program
The Student Nurses Association is putting its best foot forward, hoping to promote healthy lifestyles in the Mahoning Valley with the new program at the Niles Wellness Center, which encourages members to talk and ask questions about health and activity.
Video: Anthropology Professor Examines Serial Killer Sketches
Linda Spurlock, Ph.D., spoke to WJW Fox 8 News Cleveland about the recently released victim portraits drawn by Samuel Little, a confessed serial killer from Lorain, Ohio.
Kent State Student Brings High-End Fabric to Downtown Kent
When Symone Baskerville came from Chicago to Kent State to study fashion design, she realized that living so far from home was not nearly as difficult a transition as living in an area with limited choices of fabrics available for to her to use for her class projects. So she changed that by opening Kent Fabrics.
Kent鈥檚 Rock History is Revealed in New Book by Alumnus
Jason Prufer, '03, a lifelong resident of Kent and Kent State University alumnus, has compiled 鈥淪mall Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and Roll,鈥 a book that covers the college town鈥檚 impressive 鈥 and previously unappreciated 鈥 rock history.
Sociology Professor Creates Expressive Program for Inmates
Christopher Dum, Ph.D., created the ID13 Prison Literacy Project to give men in Lake Erie Correctional Institution in Conneaut, Ohio, a positive outlet while serving their sentence, hoping it help inmates to see themselves as writers rather than convicts.
CCI Professor Says Ads Expected the Super Bowl To Be a Man鈥檚 Game
Danielle Coombs, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, says Super Bowl ads still target men despite the fact that nearly half of the modern NFL audience identifies as women.