On a quiet weekend last September, 5XÉçÇř Student Government President Ivory Kendrick decided it was time to tackle an issue that had frustrated students for years: the university's cold-weather policy.What started as a personal project on a Friday afternoon would ultimately lead to a successful negotiation with Melody Tankersley, Ph.D., executive vice president and provost, and a permanent change in university policy – lowering the threshold for campus closures from -20 degrees wind chill to -15 degrees wind chill.Tankersley and Jeannie Reifsnyder, interim senior vice president...
In July 2016, Jill Cofojohn became the first radiation therapist in Ohio to use proton therapy to treat a cancer patient. This noteworthy event took place at University Hospital’s Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland where she worked as the advanced lead radiation therapist.Nine years later, Cofojohn – a Kent State Salem graduate – helped introduce this technology in Columbus where she now serves as the lead proton therapist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. There are only three such sites in Ohio and 46 throughout the United States....
Christopher DeDonato, an aerospace engineering major at Kent State's College of Aeronautics and Engineering, completed his internship at Center Street Technologies, a company pioneering polymer-based Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM). The company produces large-scale 3D printed items up to 12 x 25 x 8 feet. Chris's role focused on documenting machine functionality and ensuring all equipment had accurate, up-to-date instructions to support smooth and repeatable operations."One of the highlights was learning to operate a Big Area Additive Manufacturing machine for the first time and seeing ...
ID 30391 History of Italian Interiors
Course Name: ID 30391 History of Italian Interiors
Earlier in October, the Public Relations Student Society of America Kent hosted its Halloween social event; the theme was "Crisis Communications – Nightmare on PR Street." Members and participants from Kent State's School of Media and Journalism were encouraged to dress up in costume to celebrate "Spooky Season." Teams of PR students faced various crisis communications scenarios that they had to analyze and respond to. Then each group came back together to share their ideas with the whole group, sparking great discussion among students. Specia...
School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration
Kayon Hall’s interpretation of “quiet” just might surprise you. It’s the focus of the first in a sequence of projects that kicked off the third cohort of the John and Fonda Elliot DI Faculty Fellows program within the Design Innovation Initiative. An assistant professor in the Higher Education Administration program in the School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration. Hall, a Ph.D., is one of six faculty members selected to be a Summer 2025 Elliot DI Faculty Fellow.The interdisciplinary, multi-media project reimagines black immigrant life beyond narratives of spectacle and surviva...