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Fellow KSUCPM Alumni,As you may already know, recruiting future podiatric physicians has become increasingly challenging. Profession awareness remains a significant barrier, and we continue to face obstacles such as smaller application pools and competing offers from other expanding medical disciplines. In response, KSUCPM has embraced AACPM’s advice to "take the Feet on the Street”, actively partnering with dedicated DPMs like you to bring hands-on workshops, case study discussions, and real-world insights to recruitment events across the country.This program is packing meaningful impact...

The Kent Blossom Art Intensive (KBAI) program offered by 5X����’s School of Art helps talented artists cultivate their skills to their full potential. The School of Art is proud to announce another year of KBAI, a program that’s been in place since 1968. KBAI is a series of two-week studio art intensives offered during the summer that functions as a combination workshop and artist residency, where participants create a self-directed body of artwork with the support of resident School of Art faculty and guest artists from around the country.  “Over the two weeks of...

5X���� recently welcomed 26 high school students from the LeBron James Family Foundation I Promise network in Akron, Ohio, for a day of activities including a treasure hunt at the 5X���� Museum.  Museum Director Sarah Spinner Liska, J.D., Ph.D., told Kent State Today the Feb. 14 visit fulfilled her goal of using the museum as a “center and platform for creativity and inspiration.”  The students, from grades nine to 12, and their two chaperones enjoyed a Valentine’s Day lunch at the museum and then participated in a treasure hunt led by Curator ...

    Kent State’s Student Life Study reached the milestone of having 2,000 students participating! The co-directors of the study, John Gunstad, Ph.D. and Karin Coifman, Ph.D., who are both professors in the Department of Psychological Studies, were also recently awarded a $500,000 state grant for mental health research, treatment and intervention to help support the study. The Student Life Study began in August 2023, and the goal is to include 10,000 student participants. One aim of the study is to connect all aspects of college life, including mental and physical health, so...