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Community & Society

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Meditative practices are bringing the ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ community together, even from the comfort of their own home. ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ of Wellness has moved its Meditation Across Campus sessions online, in an effort to continue the sessions despite the COVID-19 global pandemic.

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, ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ, poetry and, of course, how he's keeping himself — and the ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ Community — busy during the pandemic.

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¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ 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.

Emergency room workers from Cleveland Clinic's Main Campus receive meals from Lago East Bank provided with donations from a ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ alumnus and others.

A ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ 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.

J.R. Campbell, executive director of ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ’s Design Innovation Initiative, tries on a face shield produced by the ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ team.

A team of 25 faculty, staff and students use innovation and creativity to help health professionals in Northeast Ohio protect themselves from COVID-19. 

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College of Nursing donates PPE to EMA of Portage County.

¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ’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. 
 

College of Nursing donates PPE to EMA of Portage County.

¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ’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.
 

Public Relations students

Since October 2019, select public relations students at ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ 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.

College of Nursing donates PPE to EMA of Portage County.

¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ’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.
 

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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..."