Faculty members and students from the nursing program at Kent State East Liverpool volunteered during the recent Canfield Fair by conducting free blood pressure screenings at a booth sponsored by the Ohio Nurses Association, District Three, in the fair鈥檚 Medical Building. The volunteer effort was initiated and organized by Angela Douglass, senior lecturer of nursing on the East Liverpool campus, assisted by Assistant Professor Diana Stewart. The students are enrolled in the associate degree in nursing program. Douglass noted that the East Liverpool students conducted nearly 500 blood pre...
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Alumni, Chenghui Peng (Advisor, Oleg Lavrentovich) was one of the top ten recipients of "The 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad". The award ceremony given by the Education Office of the Chinese Embassy took place at the Chinese Consulate in New York City on Saturday, April 28, 2018. The recipients worldwide were chosen for their outstanding accomplishments in any discipline. This award is considered as the highest award given by the Chinese government to the graduate students that study outside of China and th...
WKSU has announced the addition of an often-requested listening option with the debut of a pledge-free stream benefit 鈥 just in time for the station鈥檚 fall fund drive. The pledge-free content stream replaces typical fundraising talk breaks with more programming. Listeners who become sustaining members with an ongoing monthly donation will now have the ability to listen to WKSU as normal during fund drives. 鈥淓ven people who say they don鈥檛 mind the fund drive tell us that once they鈥檝e donated, they wish they could skip the fundraising messages,鈥 WKSU Executive Director Wendy Turner...
Center staff conducted a webinar focused on shared local public health services in Ohio. It was provided on August 28th, 2018 and was hosted by Ohio State's Center for Public Health Practice. The webinar was an outgrowth of the Accreditation Support Project managed by OSU and through which the Center has provided support in the area of shared services. The webinar was intended to familiarize participants with recent work completed by the Center surrounding collaboration among local health departments in Ohio, including a discussion of the key challenges and benefits associated with ...