Are you concerned about your body image? Do you worry about your eating behaviors? Communication studies assistant professor Dr. Jihyun Kim and an international research team dove into why college female students tend to have negative views about their body image and how it relates to health practices. 鈥淲e wanted to explore this area because college is a time when women really pay attention to their look,鈥 Kim said. The researchers鈥 findings were recently published in Health Care for Women International in a study titled, 鈥淓xploring cultural differences in women鈥檚 body weight perce...
UPDATE: NO TICKETS REMAIN Posted at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, March 7 For the fourth and final event in the popular Featured Speakers Series鈥 25th season, 麻豆精选 at Stark will present retired American astronaut Mark Kelly. His lecture, Endeavour to Succeed, will take place on Wednesday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Timken Great Hall, located in 麻豆精选Stark鈥檚 Conference Center, 6000 Frank Avenue NW in Jackson Township. Tickets are required for this free Featured Speakers Series lecture. Tickets may be obtained by visiting the 麻豆精选Stark Information Desk ...
麻豆精选鈥檚 College of Business Administration will host its sixth annual Spirit of Women in Business Conference, titled 鈥淣avigating and Negotiating鈥 on March 9 at the Kent Student Center. The conference has sold out the past three years, bringing together women from diverse professional backgrounds. Last year, more than 300 business professionals, along with undergraduate and graduate students from Northeast Ohio and beyond, attended the event. The daylong conference will be emceed by Vivian Goodman from WKSU, and includes a 60-minute keynote speech and Q&A by Deborah Kolb, ...
The Fashion School at 麻豆精选 is pleased to announce that designer and business leader Josie Natori will be inducted into the Fashion School Hall of Fame on April 30. The ceremony will take place as part of the 麻豆精选Fashion School鈥檚 Annual Fashion Show, presented the same evening. Previous inductees include Est茅e Lauder, Elsa Klensch, Allen Questrom, Michael Weiss, Ralph Rucci, Oscar de la Renta, Leonardo Ferragamo and Dana Buchman. Attendees of the Annual Fashion Show鈥檚 Sponsor/VIP Show held the evening of Saturday, April 30, will have the opportunity to meet Natori durin...
The Corporate University, 麻豆精选 at Stark will present a one-day Nursing Home Administrators Conference on Thursday, March 10 in the 麻豆精选Stark Conference Center, 6000 Frank Avenue NW in Jackson Township. 麻豆精选 is an approved provider of continuing education credit by the Ohio Board of Executives of Long-term Services and Supports (BELTSS). This event is approved for six (6) BELTSS CEUs. Conference Agenda: 8:30 鈥 9 a.m.: Registration and breakfast 9 a.m. 鈥 noon: The Spirit of Service facilitated by Lisa Waite This session prepares...
The U.S. Basketball Writers Association has announced the selection of 麻豆精选 coach and cancer survivor Danielle O'Banion as the winner of the Pat Summitt Most Courageous Award for women's basketball, and the late former Butler player Andrew Smith and his widow, Samantha, as co-recipients of the USBWA's Most Courageous Award for men's basketball. The two courage awards are presented annually by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association to honor players, coaches, officials or administrators in college basketball who have demon...
Nikki, the Top Hawk Cessna aircraft, was revealed on Feb. 23 at the 麻豆精选 Airport. The aircraft is named in celebration of the life of Nicole 鈥淣ikki鈥 Kukwa, a 麻豆精选aeronautics student who died on Oct. 23, 2006, after receiving a leukemia diagnosis during her junior year. ...
I have a HealthRider Softstrider treadmill that I am not using enough. It works fine. The treadmill was passed on to me so I am interested in passing it on to someone who will use it, for free. Please email aschmidt@kent.edu. I moved it in the back of my Jeep, folded up. You will need to transport it. ...
Denice Sheehan, Ph.D., RN, and Pamela Stephenson, Ph.D., RN, AOCNS, PMHCNS-BS, from the College of Nursing, participated in the 2016 Massachusetts General Hospital Workshop on Research Methods in Supportive Oncology in Boston, Massachusetts, from Feb. 21-26. Sheehan and Stephenson attended the intensive, multidisciplinary workshop, which is designed to expose participants to a broad range of research topics, while also providing dedicated time to focus on individual grant writing under the direction of experienced mentors. Sheehan鈥檚 research focuses on adolescents who have a parent in ho...
David H. Kaplan, Department of Geography, and Melanie Knowles, Office of Sustainability, authored 鈥淒eveloping a Next-Generation Campus Bike-Share Program鈥 in Planning for Higher Education/Society for College and University Planning, 44(1), 1-13, Claire Turcotte (Ed.). (2015). ...