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Does mindfulness meditation truly help in relieving stress and managing blood pressure? It is a popular technique, but until now no large-scale studies utilizing meditation have been conducted. With a $3.64 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, two ������ researchers and their colleague from the University of Pennsylvania will recruit and treat 180 individuals with elevated blood pressure from Northeast Ohio and Philadelphia to see if learning how to manage stress through mindfulness meditation or other stress management strategies can help keep them o...

������ faculty, staff and studenta are invited to walk or ride to downtown via Lefton Esplanade during tne fourth annual "Let's Take a Ride Walk" event on Monday, Sept. 22. The event 1B free and open to Kent Slate faculty. staff and 11udents. Participants are asked to register by Sept. 11 as the event will be lmited to the first 180 registrants. Riders are encouraged to either bring their own bicycle or borrow one from Flashfleet. Registered participants will meet at 11 :30 a.m. on the "K" in Risman Plaza and continuedown the Lefton Esplanade to the Kent Slate University Ho...

A $952,000 National Science Foundation grant to researchers at ������ will result in a mobile device application to help visitors to Cuyahoga Valley National Park learn more about the park’s history and ecology and become “citizen scientists” by sharing their findings with others. The grant to a team of researchers led by Richard E. Ferdig, Ph.D., professor in the Research Center for Education Technology in the College of Education, Health and Human Services at ������, will be used to create a mobile app with multiple interactive features, including the ability to learn mor...

Pasted Sept. 8, 2014 I Matt Fredmonsky, The Davey Tree Expert CompanyBrian Edwards knew that he couldn't drag brush forever. The Hickory, North Carolina, resident started in the tree industry right after graduating high school.  He wanted to go to college but, at the age of 18, couldn't afford it. "Back then, I had a weak mind and a strong back, and I was able to outwork everyone I worked with and I said 'this is for me,"' Edwards recalls. "As I got older, I realized a strong back. and a weak mind wasn't going to get me too far."  Edwards, now 46, started with The Davey Tree Exp...

By Foluke Omosun������ at Geaugainstalled a 3,000-Watt windurbine on 118 campus tnat willeduce energy costs and cut down on  carbon emssions. Thie is the first wind energy projeet at any Kent Slate campus. The wind turbine, pole and an inverter to connect to the campus electricial system were donated to the university by Don Clark, a farmr near ������ Geauga. With this latest sustainability effort at ������ Geauga, conservative estimates of environmental impact are that about 1,700 pounds of  carbon dioxide eq ulvalenl greenhouse gu reducllon or the equiva...

By Emily KomorowskiTeh vegetative roof installed last September at Taylor Hall on the Kent Campus will soon bloom. Funded through bond money that is now part of ������'s Foundatiojn of Excellence: Building the Futre Initiave, the plant filled roof was part of a larger restoration project for Taylor Hall.Beth Ruffing, assistant director of State'a Office of theUniversity Architect and project manager for the roof garden, says that there had been talks about putting vegetative roofing; also known as green roofing, around Taylor hall years befor the installation. It was designed as...