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OPINION: What is an expert nowadays?

Gregory Hess Opinion Writer February 23, 2021

What’s the best case for what makes someone an expert and someone not an expert in something? We could say that physically Lebron James is a basketball expert or Bennet Omalu is an expert in neurology...

A mass vaccination event at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA on Feb. 2.

Here are the states allowing teachers to get Covid-19 vaccines

17 FEB 21 11:26 ET By Yon Pomrenze, Evan Simko-Bednarski and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN February 17, 2021

(CNN) -- As the debate rages over when it's safe for children to resume in-person classes, 28 states plus Washington, DC, are allowing some or all of their teachers and school staff to receive Covid-19 vaccines.Several...

Gene Shelton, professor in the Media & Journalism department.

Students and professors alike manage the positive and negative aspects of classroom technology

Zach Shepherd Reporter February 16, 2021

As vaccines become more readily available, more schools are opening up. Students and teachers are looking for ways to improve the classroom environment using technology acquired during the pandemic, but...

Melissa DeRosa, secretary to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, conducts a news conference with Cuomo on the COVID-19 pandemic at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., after a meeting with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. 

New York governor’s top aide admits administration delayed the release of Covid-19 deaths in long-term care facilities over federal investigation concerns

Lauren del Valle, CNN February 12, 2021

(CNN) -- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top aide says the administration delayed the release of data on Covid-19 deaths of long-term care facility residents because of concerns about a potential federal...

Registered Pharmacist Paula Agoglia fills a dead volume syringe with the COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site in the William Reid Apartments, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The syringe allows for a full 6 doses to be extracted from each vial. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, Pool)

Pharmacies start administering their first 1 million Covid-19 vaccine doses from federal government

(CNN) -- More retail pharmacies around the country will start to administer Covid-19 vaccines by appointment Friday under a new federal program that is shipping doses directly to them.One million doses...

Covid numbers lowering

Bloomberg January 27, 2021

A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccination at a drive-thru clinic at the Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds in Robstown, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. Hundreds...

How Your Immune System Works

What you need to know about a potential COVID-19 vaccine

Connor Steffen, reporter May 28, 2020

Returning to life as it was before the COVID-19 outbreak may hinge on the development and widespread availability of a coronavirus vaccine. Government scientists, biotech companies and university researchers...

Flu vs cold

Flu season is here, and it could get worse

KentWired Staff February 6, 2019

DeWeese runs out of flu shotsDespite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) prediction that the worst of this year’s flu season is yet to come, Kent State’s DeWeese Health Center...

Shots that can save lives: Why students should get HPV vaccines

Lauryn Rosinski April 10, 2016

Cancer has run in Megan Fishburn’s family for generations. Liver and colon cancer were especially predominant in her family. Fishburn, a junior fashion merchandising major, could not change her family’s...

Sciences meets politics in new honors course

Gabrielle Woodard November 18, 2015

Politics of science in the 20th century is a new course being offered to honors students this spring. The course covers the paradox of recent history and implications on science.Alana Biles, a junior economics...