The Cook-Off is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 17 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. Hosted by the Office of Global Education along with ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Dining Services, the Cook-Off features food and beverages from around the world. The event is free and open to all. Six student culinary teams – from Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Nepal, Saudi Arabia and South Korea – have been selected to compete and will each prepare and present a different cultural entrée and beverage from its home country. The teams will compete for first, second and third place a...
Two additional health screening dates remain for 2016. Mark your calendar and schedule your screening for Friday, Nov. 4, or Thursday, Dec. 8, from 7:30-10:30 a.m. Be Well Solutions, ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½'s wellness partner, will conduct the on-site health screenings for full-time, benefits-eligible employees. What You Need to Know You do not have to be covered by one of the university health plans in order to take advantage of this offer. In preparation for the health screening, participants must fast for 8-10 hours before their on-site screening. Please note t...
Health coaching is provided by Be Well Solutions as part of the university’s employee wellness program for full-time, benefits-eligible employees on all campuses. Health coaching appointments are individualized, 30-minute sessions with a certified health coach with expertise in a variety of areas, including exercise, nutrition, stress management, tobacco cessation and general health. On-site health coaching sessions will be available throughout the year. Upcoming dates include Tuesday, Nov. 8, and Wednesday, Dec. 7, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Heer Hall. On-site Visits Don't ...
ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ faculty, staff, students and parents are eligible for a 5 percent discount at the ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Hotel and Conference Center. Rates vary depending on dates and occupancy. For more information and to book reservations, visit www.kentstatehotel.com or call 330-346-0100. ...
It could be argued that no science is more valuable to us than that which helps to ensure the survival of our species by solving the problems that challenge it. For many years, two ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences have been toiling over this matter, and each has recently received new grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health – collectively totaling more than $857,990 – to study reproductive biology, focusing on the cellular mechanisms that regulate the formation and functio...
Phase One of Summit Street Project Nearing Completion
The first phase of the Summit Street: Building a Better Way Improvement Project is almost complete. Work began nearly a year ago on the stretch of Summit Street from Fraternity Circle to just past Loop Road, and that section of the road is expected to be finished by mid-November. The segment of the project being completed this year has many new features to make the road safer for vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists. Some of the notable new features are: A new traffic signal at Loop Road that has more capabilities to move traffic more efficiently A sidewalk from Fraternity Circle to W...
It was a warm fall afternoon and students from the occupational therapy assistant program at ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ East Liverpool began arriving at the stables in Berlin Center. They were greeted by Dawn Speece, who quickly led five horses from a pasture, into the barn and to their individual stalls. Wasting no time, she instructed the ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ students to water and feed the horses, then to begin grooming them. While most of the students had little to no experience with horses, they never hesitated and went right to work. The one-on-one time spent with each horse helped establish an important level o...
You are invited to join the president of an all-women's university in Saudi Arabia as she kicks off ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½'s International Education Week 2016.