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Have a question about the IMPACT Employee Assistance Program? Want to learn more about resiliency training, online seminars, depression awareness and prevention? Curious about financial counseling services, eldercare, childcare, summer camp, smoking cessation or the new Stress Less Center? Come to the Employee Assistance Program office hours Tuesday, April 18, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Employee Wellness Resource Room 103 in Heer Hall on the Kent Campus. Meet with Lisa Kirby, impact account manager, and learn all about the numerous resources available to 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ employees and their ...

91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University students, employees and community members are invited to join the College of Nursing’s Fourth Annual Race Into Finals 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, May 6, at 9 a.m. at Henderson Hall on the Kent Campus. Enjoy a scenic run or walk through the Kent Campus, where the terrain is mostly sidewalks and a few small hills. Funds raised will benefit the College of Nursing Student Emergency Fund, designed to assist 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ nursing students during times of unexpected dire financial need. Awards will be presented to the top three overall finishers. Full-time, benefits-eligible emp...

91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University’s SecureIT provides training, information and online tutorials to help you protect your identity and devices. Ensure that your digital identity is properly safeguarded by visiting www.kent.edu/is/secureit and clicking the Security Training tab for a variety of online training tutorials, including basic security awareness, identity protection, password management and phisLink to contenthing. For more information, contact security@kent.edu or call 330-672-5566. ...

91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University’s Office of Sexual and Relationship Violence and Support Services is the recipient of three grants to launch campuswide awareness and prevention initiatives surrounding sexual harassment and assault, relationship violence and stalking. The three grants total approximately $450,000. Each grant has a focus that corresponds with the initiatives it will fund on campus. The Violence Against Women Act Campus Programs grant allocates $300,000 over three years for Prevention Education and Awareness. The grant is given through the Office on Violence Against Women. Read more ...

Area residents can have water samples tested for free, thanks to a research project being conducted by Dr. Qunxing Ding, associate professor of biology at 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University at East Liverpool. Ding is seeking water samples from areas within city limits, as well as from surrounding communities, for an independent study on water quality. He intends to geographically map samples to determine if there are any correlations with location and water quality. “Water content in the human body is about 65 percent and may be more than 70 percent in children. All the metabolic processes, including dig...

Join us this Thursday, April 13, at 6:00 pm at the Akron Art Museum for the first public poetry reading by the participants of our Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders project. The project, made possible by a major grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has allowed teaching artists from the Wick Poetry Center to engage the refugee and immigrant populations in the Akron, Ohio community in a cross-cultural, intergenerational conversation through poetry and graphic design. Working with Project Learn, Urban Vision, and the International Institute of Akron’s (IIA) refugee and i...

Kent Student Center Programming, part of the Center for Student Involvement, hosted the 13th annual Rock the Runway on March 4. The runway featured 21 collections by 24 designers, many from 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. The Kent Student Center Ballroom was decked out in 1920s’ style with an elevated runway to showcase the designs. The 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University Jazz Society Quartet, made up of 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ students, performed themed music during the show, which was hosted by sophomore communication studies major Michael Gallagher II.   The first-place coll...