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COVID-19 HUB

Nursing faculty member Lorene Martin (left) delivered pepperoni rolls to employees at the Salem Regional Medical Center and Danielle Baker-Rose delivered her homemade frosted sugar cookies.

Nurses are known for their compassion, concern and desire to care for others. The nursing faculty at the Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Salem Campus recently demonstrated that compassion and care by delivering food to frontline workers at local healthcare facilities.

So how do you successfully relocate a four-year medical school to the comfort of home for an entire college? With anatomy labs, casting and injection workshops, face-to-face patient simulations and more, the team of three had to get creative – and fast.

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RN Sarah Pierce-Brown, a member of the nursing faculty at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Salem, at work at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown.

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced its way into our lives, everything changed. At Kent State, faculty members began delivering lessons remotely and students began learning in online classrooms. All student services became remote/online.

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Â鶹¾«Ñ¡field hockey defender Clara Rodriguez Seto holds medical masks she has sewn.

As the world continues to deal with "stay-at-home" orders, Â鶹¾«Ñ¡rising senior and field hockey defender Clara Rodriguez Seto has found a way to help others from the comforts of home.

Emergency room workers from Cleveland Clinic's Main Campus receive meals from Lago East Bank provided with donations from a Â鶹¾«Ñ¡alumnus and others.

A Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ alumnus is teaming up with local restaurants and other alumni and friends to help raise money to provide meals to frontline workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Northeast Ohio.

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Tara C. Smith, Ph.D., a professor of epidemiology from Kent State's College of Public Health, discussed the fight to stop the spread of COVID-19 and what's ahead for our state and country during a recent conversation on Facebook Live. 

J.R. Campbell, executive director of Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s Design Innovation Initiative, tries on a face shield produced by the Â鶹¾«Ñ¡team.

A team of 25 faculty, staff and students use innovation and creativity to help health professionals in Northeast Ohio protect themselves from COVID-19.