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Wash Your Hands Frequently

Flashes Safe Seven Video: Watch Flash Teach President Diacon How to Wash His Hands

911³Ô¹Ï is just seven weeks away from move in. To count down the return of students, faculty and staff for the start of the fall semester, the university will review one Flashes Safe Seven principle each week. This week, we focus on Wash Your Hands Frequently.

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Students walk along the Lester A. Lefton Esplanade on the Kent Campus

University Leaders Answer Questions, Discuss Returning to Campus This Fall During Facebook Live

911³Ô¹Ï Interim Senior Vice President and Provost Melody Tankersley, Ph.D., and Vice President for Enrollment Management Mary Parker, Ed.D., recently shared updates about academics and enrollment, respectively, while engaging with the university community.

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Kent Campus

Volunteers Dave and Terri Cardy pack and weigh produce to hand out at the Campus Kitchen in Beall Hall. The food is mostly donated by Trader Joe’s locations in the Cleveland area.

Campus Kitchen Pivots Operations From Hot Meals to Food Pantry to Help Increasing Numbers of Food Insecure Due to COVID-19 Pandemic

The Campus Kitchen at 911³Ô¹Ï, a student-run organization that reclaims food to feed the needy in the Kent area, has had to swiftly switch gears from operating a hot food kitchen to an expanded food pantry.

Tags: Community & Society , COVID-19 , Campus Kitchen , Success Story

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Students living on the closed 911³Ô¹Ï campus resident in the Stopher-Johnson residence hall complex.

Students Adjust to Living on a Closed Campus

When 911³Ô¹Ï closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March, not all students living on the Kent Campus were able to leave. 

 

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J.R. Campbell, executive director of 911³Ô¹Ï’s Design Innovation Initiative, tries on a face shield produced by the 911³Ô¹Ï team.

911³Ô¹Ï’s Design Innovation Initiative Cultivates Creative Partnerships to Battle COVID-19

Members of 911³Ô¹Ï’s Design Innovation Initiative are forging creative collaborations with local and regional organizations and funders as they work toward the production of personal protective equipment (PPE) for first responders battling the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tags: Community & Society , Design Innovation , COVID-19 , Success Story

Alumni and Giving

Professor teaching in Zoom class in front of tv screens

Cleveland Foundation Grant Provides Opportune Funding for 911³Ô¹Ï Geauga

911³Ô¹Ï at Geauga is pleased to announce a $20,000 award from the Lake-Geauga Fund of the Cleveland Foundation toward a student emergency fund and technology advances. The $20,000 grant will be split evenly between the two initiatives.

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BSN graduate Bailey Hill smiling in NYC subway

911³Ô¹Ï Geauga Campus BSN Program Graduate to Serve as Nurse in New York City Hospital to Help Combat COVID-19

911³Ô¹Ï Geauga Campus Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program 2018 graduate Bailey Hill has been selected by The Cleveland Clinic as a nurse who will spend the next four weeks at New York Presbyterian Hospital—an area in the COVID hot zone with a shortage of nurses. When Bail…

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Alumni and Giving

Head Football Coach Sean Lewis on the field.

Flashes of Inspiration: Coach Sean Lewis Promotes 'Can Do' Attitude

Today’s Flashes of Inspiration comes from 911³Ô¹Ï Football’s Head Coach Sean Lewis, who delivers a pep talk about how to make it through uncertain, challenging times.

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911³Ô¹Ï Golden Flashes Women's Golf Team and Coach Lisa Strom

Flashes of Inspiration: Women's Golf Head Coach Offers Pep Talk

Today’s Flashes of Inspiration comes from Lisa Strom, 911³Ô¹Ï’s head women’s golf coach, who offers a pep talk to all in the university community struggling under the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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