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New Face Elizabeth Michel Group Exercise Program Officer Recreational Services Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Oversee group exercise program  WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: I’ve worked for ����ɫ��ҹ as a student employee since December 2013 and recently started full time in August 2016. EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I was in the United States Air Force for security forces and nutritional medicine and also worked at several fitness centers around Dayton, Ohio, as a personal trainer. LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I love being able to meet a...

Gregory King, School of Theatre and Dance, led a masterclass at Onyx Production, a dance and theatre company in Columbus, Ohio, on May 13, 2017. King’s high-energy class fused some of the main principles of Horton, ballet and other contemporary forms. Dancers were introduced to phrase works that challenged them, asking them to investigate their sense of physicality, specificity and complexity through constant movement manipulation. The class required a high degree of physicality and input from the dancers, encouraging them to execute movement with intention and clarity. ...

Three LaunchNET ����ɫ��ҹ employees and one student client presented at the seventh annual Deshpande Symposium for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Ed on June 12-14 in Lowell, Massachusetts. Julie Messing, executive director, and Lynn Buchinsky, venture advisor, spoke on a panel highlighting the results and lessons learned from building bridges and pathways from high school to college to community for entrepreneurial success and regional growth in Northeast Ohio, as part of the Burton D. Morgan Foundation’s regional work in entrepreneurship. Venture advisor Tabitha Martin and c...

Bonnie James Shaker, Department of English at ����ɫ��ҹ University at Geauga, Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, University Libraries, and Angela Pettitt, Penn State Shenango, authored the article "Recovering Kate Chopin's 'Her First Party': Media, Mediation, Message" in American Periodicals, Jean Lee Cole and Cynthia Patterson  (Eds.), 27(1), 2017, 21-24. Summary: After recovering a lost Kate Chopin short story in digital archives from the American Periodical Series Online, English faculty Shaker and Pettitt (Penn State) and Archivist Hughes-Watkins reflect on the affordances of various media arc...

Dementia affects one-third of all people older than 65 years in the United States. The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive, irreversible brain disease that results in impaired cognitive functioning and other behavioral changes. Humans are considered uniquely susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease, potentially due to genetic differences, changes in brain structure and function during evolution and an increased lifespan.  However, a new study published Aug. 1 in Neurobiology of Aging provides the most extensive evidence of Alzheimer’s di...

����ɫ��ҹ University will soon begin using a new standardized calendaring system with an improved look and enhanced functionality. The new university-wide Events Calendar will allow students, faculty and staff to stay up-to-date on events and activities, by placing all of their events, globally, in one place. Currently, organizers are required to submit requests on multiple websites to have their events included in the “What’s Up” calendar, FLASHperks, university calendar and department web pages. There will now be one central event submission form. The Rationale “Research shows that st...