Kent State Salem Receives Rotary Donation Salem – Â鶹´«Ă˝ at Salem recently received a check for $1,500 from the Salem Rotary Club, earmarked to help the campus’s Discovery Garden grow. The Discovery Garden is an outdoor classroom where individuals can “learn, grow, live and laugh.” Students in the horticulture program at Kent Salem use the garden space to put their lessons to work by planting and growing plants; designing and building landscape features; and harvesting the crops. The food grown in the garden is donated to the Salem Food Pantry or used as part of the meal...
College of Communication & Information
This semester, 14 students from the schools of Journalism and Mass Communication and Digital Sciences worked together in the collaborative course called Web Programming for Multimedia Journalism, led by JMC Associate Professor Jacqueline Marino and James Raber, instructor of Digital Sciences. As a final presentation for the class, three student teams produced innovative digital projects, all of which address a social issue or problem faced by their Kent State student audiences. The group projects were titled TechProtect, Know Harassment a...
While most can agree that STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) experiences outside of school can be exciting and engaging for young people, there is much that isn’t known about its impact on short-term and long-term learning. How can it best be connected to what students are learning in school? How can young people have equitable opportunities to access quality informal science education? How do you measure this kind of learning? The National Science Foundation (NSF) wants to address these questions and has recently awarded Â鶹´«Ă˝, and its collaborative partn...
Today’s smartphones are designed to entertain and are increasingly marketed to young adults as leisure devices. Not surprisingly, research suggests that young adults most often use their phones for entertainment purposes rather than for school or work. With this in mind, three Â鶹´«Ă˝ researchers, Andrew Lepp, Ph.D., Jacob Barkley, Ph.D. and Jian Li, Ph.D., and a Kent State graduate student, Saba Salehi-Esfahani, surveyed a random sample of 454 college students to examine how different types of cell phone users experience daily leisure. The trio from Kent State’s ...
Â鶹´«Ă˝ will hold its Fall Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). Kent State will confer 2,423 degrees, including 1,528 bachelor’s degrees, 448 master’s degrees, 65 doctoral degrees, 381 associate degrees and one educational specialist degree. The 9:30 a.m. ceremony recognizes graduates receiving bachelor’s degrees. David Webster, president and CEO of Electrical Components International, based in St. Louis, Missouri, will be the speaker for this ceremony. &nb...
Acknowledging that all undergraduate students are required to take science courses as part of their Â鶹´«Ă˝ education, and that Kent State’s faculty conduct world-class scientific research that advances knowledge and contributes to Ohio’s economic development, the university’s Board of Trustees today (Dec. 3) approved a $94.75-million investment in science facilities that will benefit virtually every member of the university community. The Board approved construction of a $37.55-million Integrated Sciences Building for the College of Arts and Sciences, and in a separate action, t...