These activities include virtual guest speakers, trash cleanups in our community, movie nights, challenges, and a scavenger hunt among others. On their calendar here you can find links to the movies, signup sheets for the cleanups, links to the speakers, and all the challenges. They have been working on this for over a month and would love for others to join in.

Their hope is to help our planet and help our community get educated on the damage that we do to our planet and educate the role we can play in living more sustainably. Whoever decides to participate in this should first and foremost follow Flashes Safe Eight and secondly, post whatever activity you are doing on the Facebook pages of either Biology Club or GEODES.

The Kent State Stark Creative Writing Club celebrated their kickoff event in style on March 9th.

Guest Author, Robert Lee, zoomed in from Montana to an audience of 40 students, faculty, staff and community members. During his two-hour visit, Mr. Lee read from his poetry collections: Black Bear Holds a Hole in HisPaws (Soft Spur Press 2013) and Breath (Foothills Press 2018).

A spirit of fellowship prevailed as Mr. Lee read poems about coming of age, teaching, social justice, loss and the human condition. At various moments, the audience erupted in laughter or Beatnik style finger-clicking and the chat bar lit up with comments and shared sentiments.

To read the full write-up, with testimonials from students, and to view photos, click here.

On March 27th, the Wildlife club participated in a 'Career Day' at the Akron Zoo. Fourteen students attended with their advisor, Dr. Greg Smith. (All maintained Flash's Safe Eight protocols.)

They got to hear from Rob, the horticulturist for the Akron Zoo and hear about all the work they put into all the flowers in the gardens and around the zoo. They got to meet Daisy, a three-banded armadillo, and Winter, an albino dove. They got to tour the zoo and hear about what goes on behind the scenes of animal keeping and handling, they each got to feed the goats crackers, and we learned a lot about what the zoo is looking for when they look at applications and what we can do to make our resumes stand out in a big pile of applications. It was so much fun and so educational, too. After the tour was over they all walked through the aquarium together and Dr. Smith was telling us so much about the fish and the plants and it was like a second mini tour haha!

For their next get-together, they have been throwing around the idea of doing some citizen science in a park around here! Citizen science is basically a bunch of amateur scientists getting together and doing scientific study or research. I know there's a bunch of equipment at our disposal in the mudroom, so maybe we'll get lucky and we can find a park to let us do some animal trapping and fish seining. Something to get us used to using equipment commonly used when studying wildlife!

If you are interested in getting plugged in with Wildlife club, feel free to contact them at (wildlifeksu@gmail.com).

Hello!

My name is Ashley Brightbill and I work in the office of Student Involvement. One of my favorite roles here on campus is serving as the Advisor for Undergraduate Student Government and working with our wonderful students.

Here are some fun facts about me: I graduated from Ashland University with Bachelor of Arts in Communication and from The University of Akron with a Masters in Higher Education Administration. I was super involved in college and even studied abroad in Mexico for a month! It's probably no surprise that I still love connecting with people and helping them find their fit here on the Stark campus!

I don't watch TV, but I do love spending time with my family and friends, learning new things, being outside and I am always searching for the next good bargain. Target is my favorite store, but I love supporting local businesses too.