Community & Society
10 Questions With David Hassler, Director of the Wick Poetry Center
David Hassler is the director of the Wick Poetry Center, where he oversees the local and national Wick projects, works with students and collaborates with other programs across campus. We asked him 10 questions about Kent, ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì, poetry and, of course, how he's keeping himself — and the ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Community — busy during the pandemic.
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì and Gov. DeWine Encourage Students to Stay Home
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University students have the chance to share why it is important to them to stay home and help stop the spread of COVID-19 with the #StayHomeOhioKSU initiative.
Alumni Raise Money for Meals for Essential Workers, Aid for Struggling Restaurants
A ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University 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.
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’s Design Innovation Initiative Uses Creativity to Help Medical Professionals Fight COVID-19
A team of 25 faculty, staff and students use innovation and creativity to help health professionals in Northeast Ohio protect themselves from COVID-19.
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Flashes Take Care of Community, Collect University's PPE for Area Hospitals and Agencies
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’s administration, faculty and staff have stepped up to collect the university’s personal protective equipment (PPE) to donate to local entities in dire need of medical supplies.
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Flashes Take Care of Community, Collect University's PPE for Area Hospitals and Agencies
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’s administration, faculty and staff have stepped up to collect the university’s personal protective equipment (PPE) to donate to local entities in dire need of medical supplies.
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Public Relations Students Create Census Campaign
Since October 2019, select public relations students at ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University have been working hard to complete a campaign for the 2020 Annual Case Study Bateman Competition client: the United States Census Bureau. The National Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) hosts this competition each year challenging participants to develop and implement a comprehensive communications campaign for a client.
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Flashes Take Care of Community, Collect University's PPE for Area Hospitals and Agencies
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’s administration, faculty and staff have stepped up to collect the university’s personal protective equipment (PPE) to donate to local entities in dire need of medical supplies.
"We All Can Play a Role," ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Epidemiologist Says
Tara C. Smith, Ph.D., epidemiology professor in the College of Public Health, shares her perspective on the current coronavirus pandemic: "It seems like years have passed since the world first heard of an 'atypical pneumonia' circulating in the Hubei province of China in December 2019. When we’ve seen similar reports in the past, the illnesses have had a variety of causes, but all were eventually containable..."
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Professors and Students Team Up With Community Groups to Provide Helping Hands
Two ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì professors partnered with the Summit County Juvenile Court and Hands of Gratitude over the summer to teach juveniles how to assemble prosthetic hands for children in Central America and were featured in the Akron Beacon Journal.