ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University is participating in the annual RecycleMania challenge, an international competition where colleges and universities strive to reduce waste and increase recycling. The month of February marked the official start of the 2014 eight-week RecycleMania competition that runs through March 29. RecycleMania is supported by the sustainability office, which specializes in the ongoing recycling efforts at ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì. There are four challenges going on in one tournament where ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì ultimately seeks to minimize waste and increase recycling: ï‚· ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì is competing in...
Ask Dean Sonia Alemagno to name her research passion, and you won’t wait a millisecond for the answer: substance abuse in society’s most vulnerable adolescents who are also at high risk for mental illness, homelessness and a host of other problems. Despite the dean’s jam-packed schedule leading the College of Public Health, Alemagno makes time to find answers for prevention and intervention. A fitting example is her recent leadership of a study to develop and implement the Ohio Adolescent Drug Use Forecasting System. This tool will monitor and report on emerging...
Posted Jan. 27, 2014 | Hannah Hamner Kent State University recently earned the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus USA designation for the sixth consecutive year. Founded in 2008, Tree Campus USA acknowledges colleges and universities nationwide for campus forest management and commitment to conservation goals. The excitement of receiving this honor has not diminished&...
Having a car on campus just got a whole lot easier. Students, faculty and staff at Kent State University can now have wheels with no strings attached. Zipcar, the world’s leading car sharing service, is now on campus. With Zipcar, members can reserve selfservice, ondemand cars by the hour or day, 24/7. Any 18 and older Kent State stu...
On Jan. 15, Kent State University launches a new partnership with Zipcar, Inc., the world’s leading car sharing network, to offer a Zipcar carsharing program on its Kent Campus. The convenient transportation option is now available at an affordable rate 24 hours a day, seven days a week for students, faculty and staff ages 18 and older, as&nbs...
Kent State University’s College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology introduced a sustainability minor to undergraduate students at the beginning of the Fall 2013 Semester. The new minor in sustainability, according to ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s website, gives “students a basic understanding of sustainability and allows them to address a specific area wit...
Kent State University’s first green roof was installed at Taylor Hall on Oct. 22. The green roof project was funded through bond money that is part of the university’s Foundations of Excellence initiative. Melanie Knowles, sustainability manager at Kent State, says a green roof like this has many benefits. “Green roofs help maintain cooler temperatures,...
The college takes enormous pride in the pioneering work of our faculty and students who are constantly creating, discovering and leading the discourse in their disciplines. Recent research has examined teen drivers, metabolic syndrome and several other topics. Following are highlights: John Hoornbeek, Ph.D., and a colleague published Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in the United States: An Inquiry into the Role of Total Maximum Daily Loads in the International Journal of Water Governance special issue on IWRM, July/August 2013. Jonathan...
Public health graduate students invested time this past summer in international health projects and trips not sponsored by the college, demonstrating their initiative, thirst for global experience and strong desire to help humanity. Five students traveled to rural Western Kenyan to serve in the Mama Pilista Bonyo Memorial Medical Centre for five weeks. Two students journeyed to Belize to work with children and investigate water sanitation issues there. A doctoral student with a passion for reducing transmission of malaria spent the summer in a National Institutes of ...
Kent State University hosted several events on Oct. 23 for the 11th annual Campus Sustainability Day, a day dedicated to recognizing sustainability in higher education. The events, which took place at the Kent Student Center, included a guest panel and Q&A session, displays set up by student sustainability groups, and a national keynote an...