Fall is here, and while the leaves are changing and the pumpkin spice is flowing, this also means that schoolwork is piling up and classes are moving at full speed. It also means stress for students can start to become overwhelming. °µÍø½ûÇø Today talked to some researchers about how students can deal with stress. John Johnson, Ph.D., director of the School of Biomedical Sciences, stress can be mental or physical, but when it comes to mental stress it is normally schoolwork that applies the most pressure. Stressors are things that cause tension, pressure and anxiety, an...
Flowers are Better Than Bullets: An Art-making Experience
Student Allison Krause was interested in art making and art history and loved to paint. She volunteered at a residential facility for those with mental illness and cared deeply about what was happening in the world around her. Inspired by Allison, Kathy Walker, Ph.D., will lead participants in an art making session, exploring their personal thoughts on peace through collage and introducing art making as a practice for improving mental health. Before coming to °µÍø½ûÇø, Walker was a practicing art therapist. She is an associate professor in Human Development and Family Science.
Lynn Berk received a B.A. in Social Sciences from The Ohio State University and her M.A. in Speech Pathology from Cleveland State University. She has worked as a speech language pathologist in local schools, and has coordinated and directed summer speech programs for preschool children. Lynn worked in long-term care settings serving stroke, Parkinson, Alzheimer and dementia patients. She developed and published two remedial programs: Testing and Remediating Auditory Processing for preschool and elementary students, and R and L Stories Galore, a remedial articulation program. Her are...
The streets of Kent, Ohio, will be filled with blue and gold as °µÍø½ûÇø alumni, students, parents, employees and community members gather for this year’s Homecoming. The university will host activities and events leading up to the Oct. 21 Homecoming Parade and Homecoming football game. All are invited to take part in one of °µÍø½ûÇø’s long-standing traditions.This year, °µÍø½ûÇø is recognizing 50 years of award-winning global education through its Homecoming theme, It’s a Flash World. The first education-abroad group of students from °µÍø½ûÇø traveled to Florence, Italy, in...
My name is Phoebe Alicardi and I graduated from the Fashion Design program at °µÍø½ûÇø in 2023. My whole life I had aspired to become a fashion designer, but because of my weak drawing and sewing skills, I didn’t think I’d be able to do it. After receiving my associates in digital design and graphics from Columbus State Community College in 2018, I decided to take a chance and see if I could achieve this dream of mine. °µÍø½ûÇø was a very easy choice to make because it was in-state and at the time was ranked #3 nationally for the top fashion design program. I tou...
Michael Bice served as a senior executive of academic medical centers and large healthcare systems for over 25 years. During that time, he was an adjunct professor at the University of Florida College of Public Health where the Dean of the College was Robert Frank, later appointed Provost at °µÍø½ûÇø. Frank hoped to establish a master’s degree in health administration at Kent and tapped Bice for the job of creating it. After much research and discussions with major health employers in Northeast Ohio, it was determined that the area was already well supplied with M.H.A. programs. B...
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