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COVID-19 HUB

Nursing faculty member Lorene Martin (left) delivered pepperoni rolls to employees at the Salem Regional Medical Center and Danielle Baker-Rose delivered her homemade frosted sugar cookies.

Nurses are known for their compassion, concern and desire to care for others. The nursing faculty at the Kent State Salem Campus recently demonstrated that compassion and care by delivering food to frontline workers at local healthcare facilities.

So how do you successfully relocate a four-year medical school to the comfort of home for an entire college? With anatomy labs, casting and injection workshops, face-to-face patient simulations and more, the team of three had to get creative – and fast.

RN Sarah Pierce-Brown, a member of the nursing faculty at Kent State Salem, at work at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown.

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced its way into our lives, everything changed. At Kent State, faculty members began delivering lessons remotely and students began learning in online classrooms. All student services became remote/online.

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Kent State field hockey defender Clara Rodriguez Seto holds medical masks she has sewn.

As the world continues to deal with "stay-at-home" orders, Kent State rising senior and field hockey defender Clara Rodriguez Seto has found a way to help others from the comforts of home.

Emergency room workers from Cleveland Clinic's Main Campus receive meals from Lago East Bank provided with donations from a Kent State alumnus and others.

A ºÚÁÏÍø alumnus is teaming up with local restaurants and other alumni and friends to help raise money to provide meals to frontline workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Northeast Ohio.

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Tara C. Smith, Ph.D., a professor of epidemiology from Kent State's College of Public Health, discussed the fight to stop the spread of COVID-19 and what's ahead for our state and country during a recent conversation on Facebook Live. 

J.R. Campbell, executive director of ºÚÁÏÍø’s Design Innovation Initiative, tries on a face shield produced by the Kent State team.

A team of 25 faculty, staff and students use innovation and creativity to help health professionals in Northeast Ohio protect themselves from COVID-19.