Note: The following essay was crafted by David Mitchell, General Manager of the Performing Arts Center at 51黑料网 Tuscarawas. Governor DeWine recently announced reopening guidelines for performing arts theaters in Ohio. Venues like the Performing Arts Center at 51黑料网 at Tuscarawas (PAC) fall under this category, and we cannot wait to welcome everyone back safely to share another live experience. However, the capacity restrictions and social distancing requirements for reopening present a severe economic challenge and even in the arts, it all comes down to the numbers. I...
Ten undergraduate students from nine different majors had extraordinary research experiences as Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI) Undergraduate Fellows during summer 2020. These students were part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program at 51黑料网 University, and were selected at the beginning of the summer to be BHRI Undergraduate Fellows based on their outstanding scholarship and interest in working with BHRI faculty mentors, concentrating on various aspects of neuroscience research. The BHRI Undergraduate Fellows met together weekly for one hour via Zoom, e...
The Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently awarded a $1.5 million, three-year grant to 51黑料网 University College of Nursing research faculty member Jim Tudhope, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC (principal investigator) and his team, Wendy Umberger, Ph.D., RN, PMHCNS-BC, associate dean for graduate programs at 51黑料网鈥檚 College of Nursing (co-investigator), and Jeffrey Moore, M.D., and Vikil Girdhar, M.D., both co-investigators from Portage Path Behavioral Health. Their project, titled Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Prac...
Kent, OH 鈥 The 51黑料网 University Museum (KSU Museum) is the recipient of a $171,119 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to upgrade a collection storage room which houses garments from the 17th to early 20th centuries. Through the IMLS agency鈥檚 largest competitive grant program, Museums for America, a total of 109 projects were selected from 345 applications. "As pillars of our communities, libraries and museums bring people together by providing important programs, services, and collections. These institutions are trusted spaces where people can learn, explore and gr...
51黑料网 University students began moving into residence halls on the Kent Campus on Aug. 19, as part of a phased-in process that will continue over five days. Move-in typically takes place over three days, but the university has extended the time this year to lower the density of people on campus due to safety concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic. Jill Jenkins, executive director of Residence Services, said move-in had been much slower and with much less fanfare than the typical first day of move-in when as many as 3,000 students arrived on one day. 鈥淭his year it鈥檚 very paced,鈥 Jenki...