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Introduction to Public Mental Health  Explore the rapidly growing field that is transforming mental health!This course introduces public health approaches to mental health and wellness—beyond clinical settings—focusing on real-world strategies that seek to improve mental health for entire populations.Title:                   Introduction to Public Mental HealthUndergrad:      PH 40110 (CRN18454)Graduate:         HPM 50110 (CRN18455)100%...

Misinformation has permeated conversations across all walks of life. And in the Taylor Hall Gallery at ����Թ� this winter, visitors can see misinformation exposed in a new, visually interesting way. It’s all thanks to a collaboration between Associate Professors Sanda Katila of Visual Communication Design and J.D. Ponder of Communication Studies, who both explored misinformation with their classes during the Fall 2022 semester. Design students in Katila’s class, Glyphix Research Laboratory, studied the intersection of language, image and lies while researching a specific i...

Two ����Թ� graduates are making strides to eliminate gender roles and stereotypes with their graphic novel titled “Play Like A Girl.” David Wilson '09, adjunct professor of Illustration, Design and Graphic Narrative at ����Թ� State, and his wife, Misty Wilson '15, a graduate of the Masters of Arts Teaching program at ����Թ� State, are the couple behind this powerful story.  The graphic novel chronicles Misty’s seventh-grade experience being the only girl on her town’s football team and showcases the challenges she faced.  “I really felt I had a stor...

KENT, Ohio – Research conducted by ����Թ� State and Illinois State faculty found that a COVID-19 diagnosis lowered same-semester GPA for students at a state university. C. Lockwood Reynolds, Ph.D., professor of economics at the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, along with co-author Timothy Harris, assistant professor of economics at Illinois State, studied data provided by a large public university to help better understand how a COVID-19 diagnosis affected student success in higher education. While the impacts of the pandemic on higher education have been...

The Student Nurses Association at ����Թ� State East Liverpool spearheaded a project to help provide gifts for 100 local children through the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree project. Students, faculty and staff across campus participated in the outreach effort, collecting baby dolls, trucks, games, Legos, other toys, coats, clothing and four bikes. Angela Douglass, senior lecturer in the ADN program on the East Liverpool Campus, helped the students organize the outreach project and noted that this partnership has continued for 20 years. “The spirit of giving is evident each year,” she said. ...

 Her journey into the world of healthcare began on the ����Թ� State Salem Campus and now Tabitha Lockhart is using that foundation to care for patients as a certified physician assistant (PA-C) at the Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating from the Salem Campus radiologic technology program in 2007, Lockhart worked full time as a mobile X-ray technologist, traveling throughout Ohio. At the same time, she took classes through ����Թ� State and earned her bachelor’s degree in public health in 2012.“Throughout my X-ray tech career, I knew I wanted to have more re...

����Թ� State entrepreneurship graduate Evan Schumann ’17 and his wife Marisa Sergi were recently recognized in the Food & Drink category of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. Schumann is co-owner of L’uva Bella Winery with Sergi, whose family has been in the wine business for over 15 years. Following graduation from ����Թ� State, Schumann started a company in the chemical industry. He then began working in consulting and mergers and acquisitions. In 2020, he and Sergi acquired L’uva Bella. The company currently distributes in nine states across the Midwest and East Coast and will launch in a 10t...

Queer Britain opened as the UK’s first LGBTQ museum in London in May and its inaugural exhibition “We Are Queer Britain” won a Museums Change Lives Award (Best Small Museum Project) in November from the UK-based Museums Association. This first installation featured The Queer Pandemic Project, an international collaboration between Queer Britain, University of London, and ����Թ�. The award celebrates UK museums that deliver social impact in order to promote work that supports communities and engages with contemporary issues. “Queer Pandemic,” an oral-history installation, focu...