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Are you concerned about your body image? Do you worry about your eating behaviors? Communication studies assistant professor Dr. Jihyun Kim and an international research team dove into why college female students tend to have negative views about their body image and how it relates to health practices. “We wanted to explore this area because college is a time when women really pay attention to their look,” Kim said.  The researchers’ findings were recently published in Health Care for Women International in a study titled, “Exploring cultural differences in women’s body weight perce...

  UPDATE: NO TICKETS REMAIN Posted at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, March 7 For the fourth and final event in the popular Featured Speakers Series’ 25th season, ������Ƶ at Stark will present retired American astronaut Mark Kelly. His lecture, Endeavour to Succeed, will take place on Wednesday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Timken Great Hall, located in ������Ƶ State Stark’s Conference Center, 6000 Frank Avenue NW in Jackson Township. Tickets are required for this free Featured Speakers Series lecture. Tickets may be obtained by visiting the ������Ƶ State Stark Information Desk ...

������Ƶ’s College of Business Administration will host its sixth annual Spirit of Women in Business Conference, titled “Navigating and Negotiating” on March 9 at the ������Ƶ Student Center. The conference has sold out the past three years, bringing together women from diverse professional backgrounds. Last year, more than 300 business professionals, along with undergraduate and graduate students from Northeast Ohio and beyond, attended the event. The daylong conference will be emceed by Vivian Goodman from WKSU, and includes a 60-minute keynote speech and Q&A by Deborah Kolb, ...

The Fashion School at ������Ƶ is pleased to announce that designer and business leader Josie Natori will be inducted into the Fashion School Hall of Fame on April 30. The ceremony will take place as part of the ������Ƶ State Fashion School’s Annual Fashion Show, presented the same evening. Previous inductees include Estée Lauder, Elsa Klensch, Allen Questrom, Michael Weiss, Ralph Rucci, Oscar de la Renta, Leonardo Ferragamo and Dana Buchman. Attendees of the Annual Fashion Show’s Sponsor/VIP Show held the evening of Saturday, April 30, will have the opportunity to meet Natori durin...

The Corporate University, ������Ƶ at Stark will present a one-day Nursing Home Administrators Conference on Thursday, March 10 in the ������Ƶ State Stark Conference Center, 6000 Frank Avenue NW in Jackson Township. ������Ƶ is an approved provider of continuing education credit by the Ohio Board of Executives of Long-term Services and Supports (BELTSS). This event is approved for six (6) BELTSS CEUs. Conference Agenda: 8:30 – 9 a.m.:  Registration and breakfast 9 a.m. – noon:  The Spirit of Service facilitated by Lisa Waite This session prepares...

Watch parties with finger-friendly foods, like piping hot pizza, crunchy potato chips, spicy chicken wings and a plethora of dips, are staples of college basketball in the spring. Fortunately, there are ways to slim down some of your favorite March Madness meals without sacrificing taste. In this cooking demo, to be held March 15 from noon-1 p.m. in Heer Hall, Room 107, you will learn easy ways to prepare healthy and delicious versions of popular appetizers. These crowd-pleasing recipes will let you enjoy the game and the food minus the guilt. Our Be Well dietician and team members wil...

������Ƶ employees are eligible to apply for the Aflac Cancer Care insurance policy. In the U.S., men have slightly less than a 50 percent lifetime risk of developing cancer. American women have slightly more than a 33 percent lifetime risk of developing cancer.1 Chances are you know someone who has been affected, directly or indirectly, by cancer. You may also know the physical, emotional and financial toll it can take on people and families. The Aflac Cancer Care insurance policy pays cash benefits upon initial diagnosis of a covered cancer, with a variety of other bene...

Work in Progress: Phoenix air valve replacement in the Annex research labs continues per schedule. Continuing the chilled water piping in the 3rd floor east mechanical room. Continuing the demolition of AHU#3. Looking forward: Complete the demolition of AHU#3 in the 3rd floor west mechanical room. Mobilize the mason the week of 3/7/2016. Continue Phoenix air valve replacement in the Annex. Continue chilled water piping in the 3rd floor east mechanical room. Steel submittals and manufacturing in progress. Start tele/data duct bank layout. Start excavation for fo...

Work in progress: Augercast pile installation continues in the SE corner of the site.  Currently 315 piles have been installed and 30 remain. Pile cap and grade beam forming and installation has begun. Basement retaining walls forming to begin 2/25/16. Elevator #1 (North) concrete hoistway walls to begin 2/25/16. Looking Forward: Complete augercast pile installation on 2/29/16. Continue with pile caps and grade beams along column line 'A' (West side). Continue with forming and placement of elevator #1 hoistway walls. Continue with basement retaining walls foll...

������Ƶ has earned its eighth consecutive recognition from Tree Campus USA, a national program created in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and for engaging staff and students in conservation goals. Heather White, grounds manager at University Facilities Management at ������Ƶ State, says the grounds department is proud of the continued recognition, as it shows the university’s dedication to the community’s green infrastructure.  “We recognize that we are one of the first impressions of campus for prospec...