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New Face Elizabeth Michel Group Exercise Program Officer Recreational Services Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Oversee group exercise program  WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: I’ve worked for Kent State as a student employee since December 2013 and recently started full time in August 2016. EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I was in the United States Air Force for security forces and nutritional medicine and also worked at several fitness centers around Dayton, Ohio, as a personal trainer. LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I love being able to meet a...

Gregory King, School of Theatre and Dance, led a masterclass at Onyx Production, a dance and theatre company in Columbus, Ohio, on May 13, 2017. King’s high-energy class fused some of the main principles of Horton, ballet and other contemporary forms. Dancers were introduced to phrase works that challenged them, asking them to investigate their sense of physicality, specificity and complexity through constant movement manipulation. The class required a high degree of physicality and input from the dancers, encouraging them to execute movement with intention and clarity. ...

Three LaunchNET Kent State employees and one student client presented at the seventh annual Deshpande Symposium for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Ed on June 12-14 in Lowell, Massachusetts. Julie Messing, executive director, and Lynn Buchinsky, venture advisor, spoke on a panel highlighting the results and lessons learned from building bridges and pathways from high school to college to community for entrepreneurial success and regional growth in Northeast Ohio, as part of the Burton D. Morgan Foundation’s regional work in entrepreneurship. Venture advisor Tabitha Martin and c...

Bonnie James Shaker, Department of English at ºÚÁÏÍø at Geauga, Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, University Libraries, and Angela Pettitt, Penn State Shenango, authored the article "Recovering Kate Chopin's 'Her First Party': Media, Mediation, Message" in American Periodicals, Jean Lee Cole and Cynthia Patterson  (Eds.), 27(1), 2017, 21-24. Summary: After recovering a lost Kate Chopin short story in digital archives from the American Periodical Series Online, English faculty Shaker and Pettitt (Penn State) and Archivist Hughes-Watkins reflect on the affordances of various media arc...

Preventive care is one of the most important ways to improve your health. Disease, injury and premature death can often be avoided if you have preventive screenings as recommended. Join Dr. Michael Schecter from Be Well Solutions on Friday, Sept. 8, from noon to 1 p.m. in Heer Hall or via livestream. Schechter will address some of the following key questions as it relates to preventive care and answer questions from those in the audience:     • Understand the population studies that screening recommendations are based on; • Be aware of conditions when early detection is...