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¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´'s newly renovated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Student Center will hold its grand reopening celebration on Wednesday, Sept. 27, from 4-6 p.m. The center is located in the ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ Student Center, Room 024 lower level. The event will feature welcome speeches from Ken Ditlevson, director of ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ State’s LGBTQ Student Center; Alfreda Brown, vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion; Dana Lawless-Andric, associate vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion; and Stephen Sokany, vice president for institutional advancement. A message fro...

Progress continues on the development of a comprehensive facilities master plan for ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´. Representatives from SmithGroupJJR, the consultant selected for development of the master plan, will provide an update on the planning process and share emerging themes of the plan at two open sessions on Monday, Oct. 2.  The first session will be held from 3-5 p.m. in Room 310 of the ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ Student Center for faculty, staff and students. A similar presentation for the city of ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ community will take place that evening from 6-8 p.m. in ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ City Council Chambers, located ...

The ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ Office of Sustainability will participate in the Game Day Challenge stadium waste reduction and recycling competition during the Sept. 30 football game against the University at Buffalo at 3:30 p.m. at Dix Stadium. The national competition between other colleges and universities is an initiative to promote waste reduction and recycling at home football and basketball games. Schools track the waste and recycling that day and report it to the national Game Day Challenge officials. “Game Day Challenge is a great opportunity to raise awareness an...

Report a room that is too cold or too hot, to maintain the balance without wasting watts. DID YOU KNOW? An excessively hot, cold or drafty room may indicate energy waste. Your facility manager is the best person to examine and fix a heating or cooling problem. ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE Send an email to your facility manager or ask your office manager to notify the facility manager. If your facility manager maintains a suggestion box, submit a ticket. Make sure your air vents are unblocked; and if you have control of your unit, talk to your facility manager about best practices for runni...

A healthy campus starts with healthy employees. That is why you are encouraged to join TEAM KENT STATE as we embark on the inaugural launch of the On the Move University Challenge. This 12-week challenge begins Oct. 2 and provides ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ faculty and staff with a blue and golden opportunity to move more, sit less and become the Most Active University in the nation! Using a platform similar to the On the Move National Corporate Challenge, the Wellness Council of America (WELCOA) has partnered with ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ State and Plymouth State University to create a unique opportunity for college...

Alexis Bartee is a senior, majoring in insurance studies at ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ at Salem. She decided to pursue this particular degree after she began working at an insurance company in Akron in 2012. There, she helped people plan their insurance needs and guided them through the process. In August, however, Bartee was in Texas caring for her elderly grandparents when Hurricane Harvey hit and, unfortunately, she now views the world of insurance from a whole different vantage point. As of mid-September, that vantage point is a shelter housing more than 300 people, of all ages, who were displ...

A good education and a solid résumé aren’t always enough to make a positive first impression. To bridge the gap, a group of ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ faculty and staff members have come together to establish the ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ State Career Closet, a project to collect, organize and distribute professional attire for students in need of something suitable to wear for a job interview. Tabitha Martin, venture initiatives advisor at LaunchNET ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ State, says the idea came up during a conversation at the grand opening reception for the Women’s Center at Williamson House last year. “You can’t go on an intervie...

Every time Kenzie Carlson designs and creates a blanket for a child in the hospital, she is giving more than a fuzzy, colorful creation – Carlson is giving a piece of her heart. Carlson started Angel Kisses Blankets in her hometown of Pickerington, Ohio (near Columbus) in 2015 to provide children and their parents with a comforting blanket in a delicate time of need. Carlson is bringing her organization to ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ while she studies special education in the university’s College of Education, Health and Human Services. The blankets have gone to children with cancer, babies...

Pet or person, caregiver’s burden is similar, ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ State researcher finds The mental and physical stress on individuals caring for elderly loved ones with chronic and terminal disease is well-documented and known as caregiver burden. It is linked to depression, anxiety and poor quality of life. There are ways to prevent and treat it. But what about caregivers of pets with chronic and terminal diseases? Do they carry the same level of stress and burden? Until recently, very little scientific research has been published on what these caregivers go through and how they handle the stress. It to...