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![ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ Professor David Fresco, Ph.D., is studying the brain waves of Tibetan monks to better understand their mental training exercises.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/PHOTOLEADMonk1.jpg?VersionId=JVC4hLHhYF.AFjEW0yk3sFliRKZHt4OA&h=ec98a0f6&itok=tnIGB-6S)
Brain Waves of Tibetan Monks Could One Day Help Students in the West
Since the time of the early Buddhist kings, Tibetan monks have practiced analytic meditation – where they memorize a Buddhist text and then attempt to deepen their understanding of this material by joining in debate pits led by a senior monk, known as the challenger.
![Shanice Cheatham worked with ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s College of Public Health and LaunchNET ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ to help her company, Endemic Solutions, develop its Endemic Filtration Portable Handwashing System.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/Profiles-Life1.jpg?VersionId=oO_mnCusW8Vi1ROBKaEqRWPZTIdFXrMQ&h=ec98a0f6&itok=toyENq2J)
Life-Changing Event Inspires ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ Entrepreneur to Help Prevent Infectious Diseases
In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, a graduate student at ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ, was told that her father had a 10-percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus.
![Sophomore Samantha Glass (right) is ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ at Stark's first Innovation Fellow](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/REGIONAL-Innovation1.jpg?VersionId=xXUOqxpL8lh7d6F.jxdMkzDJVzIOELCN&h=ec98a0f6&itok=lBftNJOi)
Igniting Innovation: Meet ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ Stark's First Innovation Fellow
Samantha Glass, sophomore computer science major, became ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ 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/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/file/SpeFea%20EMBA2.jpg?VersionId=yRT5uneLkz47yk0o8BZ7S0uATJNkJKvg&h=ec98a0f6&itok=3s4b15wc)
ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s Executive MBA Program Achieves Top-Tier Global Ranking by CEO Magazine
The Executive MBA program at ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s College of Business Administration has once again been ranked in the top tier of CEO Magazine’s Global Ranking.
![ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ President presented Rebecca Cash, an academic advisor in the Department of Sociology, with the President's Excellence Award for ensuring a Students First focus.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/PhotoLead1%20-%20Main.jpg?VersionId=2an2mMe5kouVzWbQwpzOXBckb4C8oNnm&h=ec98a0f6&itok=KJkn7Adj)
2015 President’s Excellence Award Recipients Announced
ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ President Beverly Warren recently presented eight ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ employees with the President’s Excellence Award. Warren made surprise visits to each recipient’s office with a hearty congratulations and a check for $1,000.
![ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ women's basketball coach Danielle O'Banion cheers her team on from the bench during a game.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/Profiles_Obanion_1.jpg?VersionId=Kstizrp5y2RrmzP1.lx41iIODc3XkjRS&h=ec98a0f6&itok=jfzP_eMu)
ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ Women’s Basketball Coach Named Pat Summitt Most Courageous Award Winner
The U.S. Basketball Writers Association has announced the selection of ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ coach and cancer survivor Danielle O'Banion as the winner of the Pat Summitt Most Courageous Award for women's basketball.
![The Oak Ridge Boys will perform at the Performing Arts Center at ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ Tuscarawas on March 5.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/REGIONAL-OakRidge1.jpg?VersionId=RXjkiR_NGpKW_o_ismRI.uu91GI8Rqib&h=ec98a0f6&itok=h_Z373Is)
The Oak Ridge Boys in Concert at the Performing Arts Center at ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ Tuscarawas
The Oak Ridge Boys are bringing their Celebration Tour to ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ Tuscarawas for two shows at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on March 5. This will be their third engagement at the Performing Arts Center.
![A ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ student walks past snow-covered trees on the Kent Campus after the first heavy snowfall of 2016.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/SpecialFeaTree_1.jpg?VersionId=rfZ6qxFR4ZJsq6xa45.N_anhYMzmRT0p&h=ec98a0f6&itok=ebk_NfVz)
ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ Receives Tree Campus USA Recognition for Eighth Consecutive Year
ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ has earned its eighth consecutive recognition from Tree Campus USA, a national program created in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and for engaging staff and students in conservation goals.
![Members of Nikki Kukwa’s family pose around a Cessna 172 aircraft, along with Robert Sines, interim dean of the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability, and Technology; and Chief Flight Instructor Dawn Resek.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/PhotoLead-Cessna.jpg?VersionId=eqmNVpQI83Dc0O7sH_dEG1a.e9kA.GXe&h=ec98a0f6&itok=zlurJ-LM)
Cessna Chooses ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ as a 2016 Top Hawk University Partner
ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s Aeronautics Program has received a ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ-branded Cessna® Skyhawk® 172 aircraft, which it named Nikki to honor an aeronautics student who died from leukemia.
![Ya-Fen Wang, Ph.D., assistant professor in ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s College of Nursing, discusses her project with three students (from left to right), Wendy May, Soon Young Ha and Diane Hill.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/PROFILES-NursingProf1-H.jpg?VersionId=2P7J5Mq8HQEi8R4Ymo9Xru.9HrU146dM&h=ec98a0f6&itok=L0th5BUU)
ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ College of Nursing Professor Researches Stress and Obesity in Children
Ya-Fen Wang, Ph.D., assistant professor in ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s College of Nursing, is working on a one-year project to study if children’s prolonged exposure to stressful situations encourages poor eating behaviors, which can lead to childhood obesity.