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Dear ������ Community Members: As we begin a new academic year, the Division of Information Services would like to remind everyone about the importance of protecting your Kent State email and FlashLine accounts. As you know, your FlashLine username and password are your keys to everything Kent State, and as such, it is of utmost importance that you ensure the security of this account by watching for email scams and phishing attempts. Phishing is a fraudulent process used by scammers to acquire your sensitive information. Phishing attempts through email are designed to enti...

������’s Division of Information Services has introduced a new “Message Me” functionality, which replaces the public-facing email address system for the online phone directory. “This change was necessitated because we observed parties external to the university, from both domestic and international locations, mass harvesting email addresses out of the phone directory,” says Brendan Walsh, Kent State’s manager for security and access management. “Once harvested, the amassed email addresses were then used to distribute phishing messages explicitly targeting Kent State...

The community is invited to celebrate ������ at Stark’s 2017-2018 season of the Featured Speakers Series with an impressive selection of personalities. Join us for exciting talks by Golden Globe-winning actor Henry Winkler, Army veteran and leadership expert Shannon Huffman Polson, Olympic medalist Anthony Ervin, and national news icons Cal Thomas and Juan Williams. For 27 years, this popular Kent State Stark series has attracted thousands of campus and community members who take advantage of a rare opportunity to be introduced to national and international experts on a wide ran...

Alliance Middle School students are more likely to make healthy lifestyle choices after attending a health and wellness fair presented by a group of senior nursing students from ������’s College of Nursing. The adolescents rotated through four exhibits, which focused on positive self-talk, mindfulness and stress management, the importance of sleep, and anti-bullying and building healthy relationships. Prior to the creation of the health and wellness fair, the eight nursing students conducted a nursing assessment of Alliance, Ohio. According to the assessment, when comparing A...

Kent State’s Columbiana County campuses hosted orientation sessions on each of the two campuses to help welcome new and transfer students for the 2017-18 academic year. Destination Kent State, or DKS, was a day-long event for students, parents and family members to learn the ins and outs of being a college student at Kent State Salem and Kent State East Liverpool. Faculty, staff and administrators led information sessions to help explain topics such as financial aid, scholarships, technical support, time management, library resources, study techniques and learning support services. At the en...

It’s that nagging question you ask yourself every Thanksgiving after you have piled the food sky-high on your plate and savored every last morsel: “What happened? Were my eyes bigger than my stomach?” For many years, doctors and dieticians have focused on overeating as part of the reason for the obesity epidemic in America. There is sound science behind the predisposition to fill our plates with what we think is a reasonable portion, only to find ourselves overeating anyway. However, a new study by ������ researchers aims to help us use the tricks that our eyes play on us ...

A jog after work can be healthy and fun – but your desktop computer does not need to run. ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE Shut down your computer at the end of the day and work week. Activate sleep settings instead of a screensaver. Plug electronics into a smart power strip. DID YOU KNOW? A computer left running 24/7 is wasting energy about 70 percent of the time! A computer with a screensaver uses significantly more energy than an idle computer! ...

By Karen Farkas, cleveland.com kfarkas@cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio - Oberlin College, Case Western Reserve University and ������ have been named "Cool Schools" by Sierra Magazine for their commitment to sustainability. The magazine, the official publication of the Sierra Club, ranked 239 colleges on their environmental practices in areas including food, transportation systems, water and waste management, purchasing procedures and investments. Sustainability is important to students and more than a quarter of prospective college students cite a school's sustainability co...