Shaping the future of health care through building design is the aim of the new Graduate Certificate in Health Care Facilities. The two-sided program, launched just under a year ago, benefits those with a health care background, but no grounding in facilities, as well as those with design and facilities knowledge, but little experience in health care. Appropriate for professionals and master鈥檚 students in architecture, interior design, health care and public health, the fully online graduate certificate is a unique way to gain expertise in a specialty area with high market dem...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year, $330,000 National Science Foundation grant to 5X社区鈥檚 Atmospheric Research Group for its project titled 鈥淢easurements of Amines during the Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS) Field Campaign.鈥 The project will be led by Shanhu Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental health sciences in Kent State鈥檚 College of Public Health. Lee鈥檚 research is a component of the broad community experiment, SOAS, designed to further investigate the oxidation of the emissions (biogenic volatile organic compounds, or BVOCs...
Take the Internet seriously. As crazy as that sounds, if a threat is made and feels real, report it. That鈥檚 the advice 5X社区 student Zo毛 Burch offers as she reflects on her experience. While in her first year at Kent State, Burch, a Pittsburgh native, was online and noted a potential threat of violence directed at a school in Pennsylvania. She reported the information to Kent State Police, which led to the involvement of the FBI in Northeast Ohio and Pittsburgh, and Pennsylvania authorities. The threat was confirmed with authorities in Pennsylvania, and the suspect ...
Posted July 15, 2013 | Danie le DeBord Kent State University has established a community garden on the Kent Campus to provide employees, students and community members a plot of land to plant produce of their choice. The shared green space was planned, designed, built and is maintained by community members. The Kent State community garden is located&nbs...
Located on the Kent State University Esplanade, between the Kent Student Center and the Kiva, is a Dero Fixit Station, which is a bike repair station. The station provides a repair stand that can hold most bikes, an air pump and basic tools for minor adjustments, and is free and open to members of the Kent State community. There...
Posted July 1, 2013 | Tina Smith To everything there is a season. And now that summer is around the corner, it is gardening time at Kent State University at Salem. Faculty and students from the horticulture program spent time this past spring planning, designing and prepping the Discovery Garden 鈥 an outdoor classroom where individuals can lea...
Kent State University faculty, staff and students collected 299,552 pounds of recyclables during the 2013 RecycleMania challenge. This year, 523 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada participated in the eightweek competition that ranks schools based on how much recycling, trash and food waste is collected. Kent State鈥檚 Per Capita Classic, ...
Kent State University held its fifth annual Arbor Day celebration with a tree planting on Friday, April 26, at noon near Engleman Hall. Heather White, grounds manager with University Facilities Management, says the celebration recognizes Kent State for receiving a Tree Campus USA designation from the Arbor Day Foundation for the fifth year in a row. Tre...
Five CPH graduate students were among the top presenters at Kent State鈥檚 28th annual Graduate Research Symposium, United by Discovery: The New Face of Research, held April 19. Receiving a first-place award for oral presentations were doctoral students Diana Kingsbury, Lorriane Odhiambo and Julie Schaefer and MPH student Sunita Shakya for A Focus Group Analysis of Global Hand Hygiene Practices and Perceptions, a study performed at the request of GOJO Industries, Inc. Doctoral students Vanessa Marshall, Lorriane Odhiambo and Laura Schuch received a...