Written By: Eryn Gebacz Kent State University鈥檚 DeWeese Health Center is on a mission to create a culture of wellness on campus that incorporates body, mind, spirit and financial well-being, as well as a sense of community. To this end, the DeWeese Health Center鈥檚 Wellness Committee recently accomplished one of its wellness initiatives of creating a community garden focused on growing fresh produce, learning best-practice gardening techniques and managing stress through connection with nature. Serving on the committee are wellness ambassador Danielle Romig; health educator Sie...
Road salt choking ecosystems and contaminating water, says Kent State professor CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) Dr. Anne Jefferson is a geologist at Kent State and she says we are killing Mother Nature slowly every winter. 鈥淚 have lived all over the country and I have never seen an area that applies as much salt as Northeast Ohio,鈥 says Jefferson. She tells Cleveland 19 too much salt is being applied. We are actually salting up our streams lakes and wetlands, and it's ruining our drinking water with all this salt. Experts have been measuring the salt in bodies of water in Northe...