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Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., School of Information, presented a poster titled “Continued Access to Hospital Patient Health Record Data in Long Term-Care” at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Feb. 21, 2017. ...

Pamela Rafferty-Semon, Jeremy Jarzembak and Jennifer Shanholtzer, College of Nursing, co-authored an online journal article titled “Simulating Complex Community Disaster Preparedness: Collaboration for Point of Distribution” in the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (OJIN), Vol. 22, No. 1, in 2017. ...

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is saddened to announce the death of Dr. Anatoly Khitrin, a professor who specialized in physical chemistry. Khitrin received his M.Sc. from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1978, followed by his Ph.D. in 1985 from the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka, USSR Academy of Sciences.  He began his career at this institute in 1978 and ultimately became a leading researcher and head of laboratory.  He was then employed by the University of Oklahoma, serving as an adjunct professor and research scientist. K...

Familiar Face Belinda Boon Associate Professor School of Information Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Nontenure-track faculty member WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: July 2006 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Manager of Continuing Education and Consulting, Texas State Library and Archives Commission LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The people — my students and colleagues — and the beautiful campus! ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Its national and international reputation and outstanding library and information science program. ...

New Face Rachel Scherer Academic Advisor I College of Nursing Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Academic advisor WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: July 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: ����ɫ��ҹ University Graduate Assistant LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Students-first mentality and the beloved black squirrels, of course! ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Great place to grow with passionate colleagues by my side RESIDES IN: Kent, Ohio HOMETOWN: Wampum, Pennsylvania EDUCATION: M.Ed. Higher Education Adminis...

Today marks the one year anniversary of Pokémon GO’s worldwide release that sent crowds hiking through parks, meandering into streets and walking for miles in search of Pokémon, those cute little digital characters that appear in real locations on your smartphone. Capturing the little monsters isn’t just fun for the players, it might be good for their health. Too often we sit at a desk all day, spend countless hours in the car, and with a smartphone glued to our hands, it is too easy to spend our free time watching videos, playing games and browsing the internet. Such sedentary behaviors caus...

����ɫ��ҹ University's Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Todd Diacon announced the following leadership appointments: University Libraries Kenneth Burhanna has been appointed interim dean of University Libraries, effective July 1, 2017. Burhanna has served as assistant dean for engagement and outreach in University Libraries since March 2013, and as interim director of University Press for the last year. He is an associate professor in University Libraries. "Ken brings a wealth of expertise and experience to this position," Diacon says. "He just completed the UCLA...

Several ����ɫ��ҹ University professors in the College of Arts and Sciences have been selected to receive Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). REU grants are designed to provide faculty with funding to create research positions and experiences specifically for undergraduate students. These students typically come from two- or four-year institutions that may not provide access to many research opportunities.    Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., a professor at ����ɫ��ҹ’s Liquid Crystal Institute®, and Mike Tubergen, Ph.D., a profe...

����ɫ��ҹ University faculty and students in the Department of Physics, in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently played a key role in using a new silicon detector technology to examine nuclear collisions that recreate the Big Bang on a tiny scale in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, on Long Island.  By looking at the behavior of particles that decay just tenths of a millimeter from the center of a trillion-degree fireball that mimics the early universe, nuclear physicists smashing atoms at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Co...

Grab the sunscreen and camera. It’s summer vacation season again, and e-Inside wants to feature some of your best vacation or staycation photos, including selfies. Submit your favorite vacation or staycation photos and a brief description to einside@kent.edu by Tuesday, July 25. Depending on the number of entries that we receive, yours might be featured in e-Inside. Please use "Summer Vacation Photos" as your email subject line. ...