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Jo Dowell, Ph.D., RN, CRNP, PNP, FNP-BC, CFNE, assistant professor and research faculty at 51���� College of Nursing, has focused her nursing research on better understanding the health disparities of low-income, minority children who suffer from a chronic illness. She was recently invited to present her research findings at the 27th Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Research Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. Dowell’s research “Conceptualizing cultural weaving to decrease health disparities: What are the culture characteristics of a community organization?” studied caregivers of ...

Jeremiah Vaughan, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Exercise Physiology program, always had an interest in environmental physiology, and this summer he spearheaded a project that will help to add to the scientific knowledge in understanding respiratory protective equipment resistance on workers’ physical, cognitive, and subjective performance in low-oxygen environments, such as Denver and Boulder, Colorado.  The goal of this project is to measure variables, such as mood, cognition, breathing effort and comfort, lactic acid, hemoglobin levels, blood pressure, oxygen levels and pu...

Sarah Burns, a second-year master’s student in the Nutrition and Dietetics Program at 51����, shows off a tomato that she and others in the program helped to grow over the last few months. Under the direction of nutrition and dietetics faculty member Natalie Caine-Bish, Ph.D., Burns and other volunteers oversee the Mighty Pack Program that provides Portage County children meals during times when they are not receiving food provided through the National School Lunch Program. The Mighty Pack Program was a graduate student project that grew into a countywide food insecurity prev...

The Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority (PARTA) will introduce SPOT PARTA, its real-time GPS transit information capability, to the 51���� community on Oct. 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. SPOT PARTA allows users to locate any of PARTA’s fixed-route buses anywhere within Portage County. Members of the public can easily track the location and arrival time of any PARTA bus by using a cellphone, tablet or computer. Simply text 224-300-SPOT (7768) and the location of the next bus will be sent directly to your phone. You also can log...

Work in Progress Complete drywall work in basement, Human Anatomy Lab. Taping in Human Anatomy Lab is in progress. Continue north side corridor curtain wall installation. Continue cleaning operations. Looking Forward Continue detailing work in basement, Human Anatomy Lab. Continue north side corridor curtain wall installation. Start installation of the interface of the north side curtain wall and the green house glass. ...

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, presented “Richard Wright’s Achievement of Solace, Eastern Poetics, and African Philosophy” at the College Language Association Annual Convention on April 6-9, 2016, in Houston, Texas.  ...

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, organized and chaired a session, “The Chicago Renaissance: The Postmodern and Postcolonial Development,” at the American Literature Association Conference on May 26-29, 2016, in San Francisco, California. ...

Paul Sherman, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, delivered a presentation titled “User Onboarding: Patterns and Anti-Patterns Explored” at the June 23 UXPA Cleveland meeting. ...

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, authored “The Triangular Vision of Richard Wright: The African American Poet’s Achievement of Solace by Means of Eastern Poetics and African Philosophy” in Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad, ed. Virginia Whatley Smith (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016): 198-213. ...