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Research was carried out for GOJO sustainability initiative Four graduate students from ������'s College of Public Health recently completed a research project focused on hand hygiene among economically disadvantaged populations for Akron's GOJO Industries Inc., a leading global producer and marketer of skin health and hygiene solutions for away-from-home settings and inventor of PURELL® hand sanitizer. During Spring Semester 2012, a multidisciplinary team of two doctoral students, Diana Kingsbury and Julie Schaefer, along with two Master of Public Health students, Lorrian...

Sonia Alemagno, Ph.D., dean of ������’s College of Public Health, has been appointed a member of the Akron General Hospitals' Board. Alemagno, a professor of health policy and management, joined Kent State in 2009. She previously served as interim vice president for research, and later became dean of the College of Public Health in July 2011. Before joining Kent State, she was the chair of the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, and director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at the University of Akron.  “I am very honored to serve on the boa...

Laura Bartolo, Professor and Director of the Center for Materials Informatics at ������, was recently named by the National Research Council to be a member of the National Academies of Sciences Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI). The mission of BRDI is to improve the stewardship, policy, and use of digital data and information for science and the broader society. The twenty person Board members represent recognized faculty in the fields of physical and life sciences, computer, information, and library sciences, medicine, and engineering.  Her two year term bega...

Two Kent State faculty members have been awarded the Farris Family Innovation Award for their research projects. Aaron Jasnow, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychology, received the award for his project titled “Understanding Emotion: From Molecules to Mind.” Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., of the College of Public Health, was awarded for her project titled “Quality Improvement Initiatives in the Gynecology Robotic Operating Room.” The Farris Family Innovation Award rewards faculty members who combine scholarship of teaching, discovery and application in new and effective ways. After recommenda...

Professors Robin Selinger and Jonathan Selinger have been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research. The project is entitled, "Topological Defects, Curved Geometries, and Shape Evolution in Soft Matter." This award is funded by the Division of Materials Research and supports theoretical and computational research and education in soft matter physics. This interdisciplinary project also brings together research ideas and tools from the fields of differential geometry, applied mechanics, and computational materials science. The prima...

Dr. Sonia Alemagno, professor of health policy and management and associate dean for the College of Public Health at ������, has served the past year as the university’s interim vice president for research. When she returns to the College of Public Health on July 1, 2011, she will have a new title: dean. Kent State Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Robert G. Frank said naming Alemagno dean of the College of Public Health makes perfect sense. “Sonia has been an integral part of establishing our new College of Public Health and then getting it up and running,...

The new College of Public Health at ������ celebrated its first graduating class of the Bachelor of Science in Public Health (B.S.P.H.) program on Saturday, May 7. Thomas Brewer, associate dean of Kent State’s College of Public Health, said the new college and the undergraduate program is a great example of higher education responding directly to the needs of potential employers. “The Association of Schools of Public Health estimates that 250,000 public health workers will be needed by 2020,” Brewer said. “These five graduating seniors will be the first in the state to enter ...

������ Professor Dr. Melissa Zullo was presented the Beginning Investigator Award by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR). Dr. Zullo is an assistant professor of epidemiology in Kent State’s new College of Public Health. Her research was presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the AACVPR on Oct. 1, 2009.  The mission of the AACVPR is to reduce morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular and pulmonary disease and to improve the quality of life in people with established disease. The AACVPR represents healthcare professionals and r...

Gov. Ted Strickland, together with the Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut, today announced Kent State as a Center of Excellence in Biomedicine and Health Care for the state of Ohio. Kent State joins 13 other universities throughout the state to receive this distinction.  The Centers are committed to focusing their academic and research activities on biomedical and health care to create jobs in Ohio and further strengthen Ohio’s international reputation as a leader in bioscience research and development. Kent State’s Center focuses on the health of individuals and commun...