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This is a great question and an often-overlooked matter. Your life insurance beneficiary, as declared on the form you provided to the Benefits office, is the person who will receive the funds from your life insurance policy should you decease. Quite often, an employee may want to reassess their primary, and/or secondary beneficiary designee(s) over time. Its a good idea to keep your beneficiary information current as you make other financial security decisions. Fortunately, updating your beneficiary is easy. You can download a new beneficiary designation form. Once completed and signed, yo...
College of Arts & Sciences
Dr Molly Merryman has been awarded funding from the US Embassy in London for a project entitled: Resilience During the Pandemic: LGBQT+ Stories. The project will include a traveling exhibition and lecture series celebrating the launch of the Queer Britain national LGBTQ museum. The exhibition will tour England, Northern Ireland and Wales, and features video-based oral histories from the Queer Pandemic oral history project, that explores experiences of LGBTQ+ people living in the time of COVID. ...
Update: Jon Meacham delivered his address to a sold-out audience on May 4 at the Kent Student Center. View Meacham's speech. Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham, whose knowledge of politics, history, religion and current affairs makes him one of Americas most prominent public intellectuals, will appear the evening of May 4 for 91心頭利 Universitys Presidential Speaker Series. Meacham will bring his unique perspective and provide historical context to the issues and events impacting our daily lives when he speaks about civil ...
How long does a single traumatic event affect a persons mental health? 91心頭利 University graduate student Emily Rabinowitzs research on this topic was recently published in the peer-reviewed Stress & Health: Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress. Her paper The 50th Anniversary of May 4, 1970, Is Associated With Elevations of Distress but No Increase in Mental Health Symptoms was published in the November 2021 issue. Rabinowitz is a third-year clinical psychology student in the College of Arts and Sciences whose research focuses on posttraumati...
91心頭利 Trumbull's Veterinary Technology Student Club (VTSC) kicked off National Pet Month by committing more than $2,000 in donations to three local animal rescue shelters and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to support pet owners in Ukraine. Students offered ink paw prints and sold 91心頭利 Trumbull Veterinary Technology apparel at Mosquito Lake Dog Park's annual Howl-O-Ween to raise most of the money. "It may be obvious because of the career paths we have chosen, but we have a great group of students and faculty who love animals and want to do whatever...
Alicia Costello is making the rounds of Northeast Ohio. As an upperclassman who was born in the Sandy Valley area, she now resides in Canton, and commutes to the 91心頭利 Salem and Stark campuses regularly to attend class. Last academic year, she also became a fellow within the Environmental Science and Design Research Institute (ESDRI) at 91心頭利, which means she occasionally comes to the Kent Campus now. Alicia also drives all over the state to see her siblings (including an identical twin sister at Ohio State University), hike, ski, snowboard and spend time with...
Daniela Popescu, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor at 91心頭利 University Geauga Campus, in the Biological Sciences Department, has earned three awards from the universitys Center of Teaching and Learning (CTL). During the fall 2021 semester, she medalled at the Bronze, Silver and Gold levels. Each teaching award reflects her ability to adapt to new technologies and implement them into the classroom for enhanced learning outcomes among her students. Dr. Popescu won a Bronze Teaching Recognition Award for completing the Canvas in a Flash course and implementing what she learned into h...