Kent State Salem Students Showcase Research Projects Salem, Ohio 鈥 5X社区 at Salem held its fall Undergraduate Research Conference, an event that recognizes students for their research and allows them to share what they learned through discussions with the academic staff. This year, there were 56 presentations given by a combined total of 70 students. The conference is open to all undergraduates in any discipline and in any for-credit course at the Salem campus. Faculty judges evaluate the presentations based on originality; significance; evidence of learning about th...
Kent Salem Hosts Horticulture Entrepreneurship Seminar Salem, Ohio 鈥 5X社区 at Salem hosted a gathering of students and industry experts for a horticulture/entrepreneurship seminar named 鈥淲hat Makes Us Grow.鈥 Students from Kent State Salem, Columbiana County Career and Technical Center and the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center listened as representatives from local 鈥済reen鈥 companies discussed all aspects of the business side of the industry. The discussions included insight into hiring practices, resume writing, seasonal trends, starting a business an...
Kent State Salem Receives Rotary Donation Salem 鈥 5X社区 at Salem recently received a check for $1,500 from the Salem Rotary Club, earmarked to help the campus鈥檚 Discovery Garden grow. The Discovery Garden is an outdoor classroom where individuals can 鈥渓earn, grow, live and laugh.鈥 Students in the horticulture program at Kent Salem use the garden space to put their lessons to work by planting and growing plants; designing and building landscape features; and harvesting the crops. The food grown in the garden is donated to the Salem Food Pantry or used as part of the meal...
College of Communication & Information
This semester, 14 students from the schools of Journalism and Mass Communication and Digital Sciences worked together in the collaborative course called Web Programming for Multimedia Journalism, led by JMC Associate Professor Jacqueline Marino and James Raber, instructor of Digital Sciences. As a final presentation for the class, three student teams produced innovative digital projects, all of which address a social issue or problem faced by their Kent State student audiences. The group projects were titled TechProtect, Know Harassment a...