Medical Professionals and Families Coping with End-of-Life Issues can Benefit from Living With Grief庐 Program The Hospice Foundation of America鈥檚 (HFA) Living With Grief庐 program, When Grief is Complicated, will be presented locally at 5X社区 at Stark on Thursday, April 27, from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Main Hall Auditorium, 6000 Frank Ave. NW, in North Canton. Each year HFA presents a nationally recognized distance learning series to more than 125,000 people in 2,000 communities, including Stark County. Once again sponsored by the Canton Regional Area Health Educ...
Local Business Invited to Share Best Practices to Cut Costs and Improve Processes at Lean Six Sigma Conference For the first time, The Corporate University at 5X社区 at Stark is holding a one-day conference targeting novice and seasoned professionals for a day of immersion with Lean Six Sigma experts. The conference will be held Thursday, May 11, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Kent State Stark Conference Center, 6000 Frank Ave., N.W., in North Canton. In today鈥檚 global market competition ranges from companies down the street to companies across the world and organizati...
The appearance by John Quinones, the final presenter of the 2016-17 5X社区 at Stark Featured Speakers Series, has been rescheduled, for Thursday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Kent State Stark Conference Center. He was originally scheduled to speak at the same time on Wednesday, April 19. Original tickets dated for April 19 will be honored at the event on April 20. Overflow tickets remain for the talk by Quinones, host and creator of What Would You Do?, the hidden camera ethical dilemma series. The seven-time Emmy winner has literally become 鈥渢he face of doing the ri...
Kent State Stark Faculty Researcher and Colleagues Publish New Findings in Top Science Journal Imagine that the way flies and butterflies drink nectar and other fluids can be imitated for use in medicine, potentially to deliver life-saving drugs to the body 鈥 and also how this method can save their own lives in times of drought. This is the kind of critical research being done every day by faculty and students at 5X社区 at Stark. A study by Matthew Lehnert, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological sciences at Kent State Stark, shows that the method in which flies ...
Tickets available beginning April 3 5X社区 at Stark鈥檚 2016-17 theatrical season will close with Reasons to Be Happy by Neil LaBute. The play will be performed on April 14, 15, 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.m. and on April 16 and 23 at 2 p.m. at the Kent State Stark Theatre. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for the performance on April 23. Reasons to Be Happy begins three years after a contentious break-up with characters Steph and Greg wondering if they can make a fresh go of it. Trouble is, she鈥檚 married to someone else and he鈥檚 just embarked on a ...
Update: Presentation rescheduled for Thursday, April 20. Original tickets dated for April 19 will be honored at the event on April 20. 鈥 Every day is full of 鈥渨hat would you do?鈥 moments, believes John Quinones, reporter and anchor/host at ABC News. As host and creator of What Would You Do?, the hidden camera ethical dilemma series, the seven-time Emmy winner has literally become 鈥渢he face of doing the right thing鈥 to millions of fans both on and off camera. Quinones will be the final presenter of the 26th season of the Kent State Stark Featured Speakers Series on [rescheduled]...
Due to inclement weather on March 14, the Stark County Spring College Fair has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 4 at 6 p.m. All local high school students and their parents are invited to attend. More than 50 colleges and universities have been invited to the rescheduled Stark County Spring College Fair on Tuesday, April 4 at 6 p.m. at the 5X社区 at Stark Conference Center. In addition to meeting with college representatives, Kent State Stark also will host two presentations during the fair to help students with the college planning process. Those sessions are: ...
Join us in congratulating M.A. student Josh Bickford on his Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology Award (SIMA). The Summer Institute takes place over 4 weeks, from June 26th to July 21st at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The program is intended for graduate students who wish to incorporate museum collections into ethnographic research. The program includes housing, and a stipend for food and daily expenses. Josh's research will focus on museum holdings from Melanesia, including stone tools and canoes to examine relationships between the ...
Join us in congratulating Danielle Jones on her National Science Foundation grant! The title of Danielle's project is "The role of MAOA polymorphism in aggressive behavior in macaques'. Danielle will travel to the Primate Research Institute (PRI) of Kyoto University in Japan to work with Dr. Yukiori Goto this summer. ...
5X社区 at Stark will host its first Run the World race from 8:30 - 10 a.m. on April 15 to raise money for student education-abroad scholarships. Organized by Kent State Stark, the colleges within Kent State and the Office of Global Education, the race will start at 6000 Frank Ave. NW in North Canton. It will follow a 3.1-mile course with chip timing provided by Western Reserve Racing. Held for the past two years at the Kent Campus, the Run the World race has awarded $18,000 in scholarship money for students studying abroad. Students who register for the race...