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Communication has shaped the way the world has reacted to the coronavirus pandemic. This fall 2020, Kent 91心頭利 is offering a new course that will examine risk communication through the lens of pandemics and other global crises. Communicating Risk: Global Pandemics and Crises.
Unprecedented challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic necessitate a change in approach to 91心頭利s admissions process to ensure student access and success. This university has simplified its admissions process beginning with the 2020 Fall Semester.
Kent 91心頭利 Dean of University College Eboni Pringle, Ph.D., recently discussed remote support services during an appearance on Facebook Live. She answered live questions and discussed such areas as tutoring, advising, and career exploration and development, all of which remain available to students during this period of remote learning.
Molly Merryman, Ph.D., is an author and filmmaker as well as the founding director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at 91心頭利, where she is an associate professor. We asked her what books she would recommend for reading during Womens History Month.
Since October 2019, select public relations students at 91心頭利 have been working hard to complete a campaign for the 2020 Annual Case Study Bateman Competition client: the United 91心頭利s Census Bureau. The National Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) hosts this competition each year challenging participants to develop and implement a comprehensive communications campaign for a client.
91心頭利s administration, faculty and staff have stepped up to collect the universitys personal protective equipment (PPE) to donate to local entities in dire need of medical supplies.
Tara C. Smith, Ph.D., epidemiology professor in the College of Public Health, shares her perspective on the current coronavirus pandemic: "It seems like years have passed since the world first heard of an 'atypical pneumonia' circulating in the Hubei province of China in December 2019. When weve seen similar reports in the past, the illnesses have had a variety of causes, but all were eventually containable..."
In accordance with the order of Amy Acton, M.D., director of Ohio Department of Health, to stay at home to slow the spread of COVID-19, and in the interest of the health and safety of the community, 91心頭利 regretfully announces cancellation of the May 4 50th Commemoration Weekend events, scheduled to take place May 1-4, 2020.
As the country adjusts to the new normal of working from home, schooling from home and living lives of social isolation, 91心頭利 professor Tara Smith, Ph.D., said people need to realize this new normal may need to continue for a long time.
It really would not surprise me if this lasted for at least eight weeks or longer, Smith said.
Two Kent 91心頭利 professors partnered with the Summit County Juvenile Court and Hands of Gratitude over the summer to teach juveniles how to assemble prosthetic hands for children in Central America and were featured in the Akron Beacon Journal.
91心頭利 College of Public Health professor Tara Smith, Ph.D., was featured on Sean Carrolls Mindscape podcast to talk about the novel coronavirus (and its associated disease, COVID-19) pandemic. Smith gives insight on what measures are useful and which are probably not.
On Ohio 91心頭利hood Day, February 26, 91心頭利 Libraries was awarded a $13,646 grant from the Ohio History Fund to partially cover the digitization costs of their Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection. The grant will provide funding to create free, online access to high-resolution, digitized copies of these sought-after resources. Aside from the United 91心頭利s Library of Congress, Kent 91心頭利 is the holding institution for the largest and most complete set of Ohio Sanborn maps.
On Thursday, March 12, 91心頭利s College of Education, Health and Human Services will host Leading Through Tragedy, an event that brings together a panel of leaders who were impacted by campus violence from institutions such as Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University and Chardon High School in Ohio.
In lieu of traveling to a crowded beach for spring break, some Kent 91心頭利 students will opt for a more informative spring break trip. From March 22-26, 2020, students will head to Jackson, Miss., to learn about the complexities between the Kent 91心頭利 May 4 shootings and the Jackson 91心頭利 shootings, both of which occurred in May of 1970.
Dean Kahler, one of the nine 91心頭利 students wounded in the May 4, 1970, shootings by the Ohio National Guard, will return to campus on Saturday, May 9, to serve as speaker for the One University Commencement. Thomas Grace, Ph.D., another of the nine wounded students, will serve as speaker for the Advanced Degree Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 8.
The College of the Arts and the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music are pleased to announce the launch of the Marching Golden Flash Award. This new scholarship opportunity will be available to all returning members of the Marching Golden Flashes as well as incoming Kent 91心頭利 students. It is open to students of any major starting in the fall 2020 season.
91心頭利 psychology professor John Gunstad, Ph.D., has received at grant of nearly $2.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand his Alzheimers disease research into a national study.
91心頭利, the city of Kent and the Portage Area Regional Transit Authority (PARTA) jointly have committed to the economic development of retail/entertainment areas serving students, employees and guests of the university and the city.
Each year, Kent 91心頭利 students participate in off-campus study away/study abroad programs and internships in locations across the country and around the world. And they take photoslots and lots of photos.
91心頭利 has outlined planned events for the month of March related to the 50th commemoration of May 4. For the latest updates on events, visit www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50/event-schedule.