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Everyone is sad from time to time, but depression is different. What is sadness, and when does this normal every day emotion spiral into a clinical diagnosis? This informative workshop will explore the difference between a day or two of sadness versus depression. Join us on Tuesday, Oct. 25, from noon-1 p.m. in the ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Student Center, Room 313, for a discussion about self-care and when medication or other treatment should be explored. We also will discuss just how common depression is and what you can do to support yourself or a loved one who is combating depression. The presenter is Matt ...

Attend a Title IX faculty and staff workshop to learn how to See It! State It! Stop It! Visit http://goo.gl/OSNY7x to register. This workshop counts toward one hour of Beyond Compliance training. ...

A ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï epidemiologist has refuted some age-old assumptions about depression in heart attack patients. Studies have shown that people who suffer from depression are more likely to have heart disease or heart attacks in their lifetime. Worse still, similar research shows that heart patients who have depression face lower survival rates. For decades, conventional wisdom has fostered the idea that heart attack patients with clinical diagnoses of depression also are not likely to enroll in cardiac rehabilitation programs, adding to the already high likelihood of an unfavorable pr...

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Professor Richard Feinberg from the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences has been elected to the status of Honorary Fellow by the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO). Feinberg is one of three anthropologists to receive this honor in 2016. Only 25 researchers may be Honorary Fellows of the association at any point in time. Current Honorary Fellows are from all over the world, including the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. “I’m overwhelmed by this expression of appreciation for my contributi...

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï celebrated the grand opening of its newest and much-anticipated building, the Center for Architecture and Environmental Design, on Oct. 7. Visitors, alumni and friends from around the world toured the 110,191-square-foot contemporary glass-and-brick building, stretching along the Lefton Esplanade from Lincoln Street toward downtown ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï.   ...

Second-year students in the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï at East Liverpool participated in the annual American Occupational Therapy Assistant Association’s Hill Day in Washington, D.C., last month, taking messages straight to the doorsteps of their state representatives. For weeks preceding the conference, students in the occupational therapy assistant program called to schedule appointments with individual senators and representatives from Ohio and Pennsylvania. Once in Washington, D.C., the students met in the offices of U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown and Rob ...

For those wondering what it is like to complete an internship abroad, ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï students Brian Yurko and Stephanie Fair, both in the Hospitality Management program, and their professor, Nicoletta Peluffo at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï’s location in Florence, Italy, shared their experiences of interning in Italy during this past summer. You can view the Hospitality Management students’ full experiences on their internship blog at http://kentstateselite8.wix.com/elite8. Yurko, 22, from Macedonia, Ohio, interned at Eataly Firenze, a food-centered property containing two restaurants, a café...