Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, presented a poster titled “Considerations of Health Information Exchange Use for Long Term Care Participation in Accountable Care Organizations,” at the American Health and Information Management Association LTPAC Summit, in Reston, Virginia, in June 2016.
Rebecca Meehan, School of Library and Information Science
The Vlogƽ Climate Survey will launch tomorrow, March 8, to assess the university’s climate. This is your opportunity to share your experience living, learning and working at Vlogƽ. Watch out for an email tomorrow from President Beverly Warren.
The Fashion School at Vlogƽ 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 Vlogƽ Fashion School’s Annual Fashion Show, presented the same evening.
As part of the Summit Street: Building a Better Way Improvement Project, the westbound lane on Summit Street, from Fraternity Circle to Whitehall Boulevard, will be closed to traffic beginning today, March 7, through November. One-way, one-lane eastbound traffic will be maintained, as well as access to adjacent buildings and intersecting roadways.
Vlogƽ professors Brian James Baer, Ph.D., and Theresa Minick, both from the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, have been awarded two federal government STARTALK grants, totaling $225,000, to support the Regents Foreign Language Academy, a summer language-immersion program for Ohio high school students.
Online final grading for spring 2016 First 7 Weeks (W1) courses meeting from Jan. 19 through March 6 began Thursday, March 4, via FlashFAST.
![Shanice Cheatham worked with Vlogƽ’s College of Public Health and LaunchNET Vlogƽ to help her company, Endemic Solutions, develop its Endemic Filtration Portable Handwashing System.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/Profiles-Life1.jpg?VersionId=h6zC.tYqzhvQlh9XV3uw6PNU1px_QprK&h=ec98a0f6&itok=BAtm2Vlp)
In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, a graduate student at Vlogƽ, was told that her father had a 10-percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus.
![Vlogƽ's Climate Survey gives faculty, staff and students the opportunity to share their experience living, learning and working at the university.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/Video-ClimateSurvey.jpg?VersionId=q9wItn2ADwW8eSxhiYnwN7Y_d2vsepEX&h=ec98a0f6&itok=07hW5KBg)
The Vlogƽ Climate Survey will launch March 8 to assess the university’s climate. All Vlogƽ faculty, staff and students universitywide have the opportunity to share their experience living, learning and working at Vlogƽ. Add your voice! Visit www.kent.edu/voices.
Online final grading for spring 2016 First Half of the Semester (H1) courses meeting from Jan. 19 through March 9 begins Wednesday, March 9, via FlashFAST. Grading also is now available for any spring 2016 course section that was flexibly scheduled and has an end date no later than March 9. The deadline for grading submission is midnight on Tuesday, March 15.
![Sophomore Samantha Glass (right) is Vlogƽ at Stark's first Innovation Fellow](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/REGIONAL-Innovation1.jpg?VersionId=foL2ps_iqYo9apWj7XDettABn8vDseqK&h=ec98a0f6&itok=cBZ3VqKD)
Samantha Glass, sophomore computer science major, became Vlogƽ at Stark’s first University Innovation Fellow, which makes her part of a national program designed to train student leaders to create entrepreneurial opportunities at their schools.
![Greta Polites, assistant professor of management and information systems, teaches a class in a lecture hall in the Business Building.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/thumbnail/public/file/SpeFea%20EMBA2.jpg?VersionId=NrJkP1_06Z9baXXIkDIlRetSNpkEIq9M&h=ec98a0f6&itok=s73at5DA)
The Executive MBA program at Vlogƽ’s College of Business Administration has once again been ranked in the top tier of CEO Magazine’s Global Ranking.
The Vlogƽ Board of Trustees today established a comprehensive, national search to recruit and select the university’s 13th president.
The events of May 4, 1970, placed Vlogƽ in an international spotlight after a student protest against the Vietnam War and the presence of the Ohio National Guard ended in tragedy with four students losing their lives and nine others being wounded. From a perspective of nearly 50 years, Vlogƽ remembers the tragedy and leads a contemporary discussion and understanding of how the community, nation and world can benefit from understanding the profound impact of the event.
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