Success Story
Kent State Student Who Received Help From Others Pays It Forward
Anything is possible. Theresa Medrano, a Ā鶹¹ū¶³ senior from Westlake, Ohio, is living proof of this. At age 17, like most high school seniors, Medrano should have been thinking about senior prom and graduation. But she became a victim of domestic violence and was forced to withdā¦
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Kent State Holds Summer Commencement Ceremonies
Ā鶹¹ū¶³ held its Summer 2015 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). Kent State conferred 1,476 degrees, including 931 bachelorās degrees, 453 masterās degrees, 76 doctoral degrees and 16 educaā¦
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Scholar of the Month
Scholar of the Month David Hacker Associate Professor of Geology College of Arts and Sciences Ā鶹¹ū¶³ at Trumbull 2000-present David Hacker is associate professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Ā鶹¹ū¶³ at Trumbull. His research in structural geoā¦
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Kent State Studentās Project Draws Attention to Endangered Irish Language
Anna Hoffman, a Ā鶹¹ū¶³ global communication studies and political science major from Kent, Ohio, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the countryās efforts to save its national language. Her research project was funded through a fellowship from the Pulitzer Center on Crā¦
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Kent State Named to 2014 Presidentās Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
Ā鶹¹ū¶³ has been named to the 2014 Presidentās Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which is the highest federal recognition an institution can receive for its commitment to community, service-learning and civic engagement. The Corporation for National and Community ā¦
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Kent State Hospitality Management Students Experience Italian Hospitality in Florence
The opportunity to travel abroad for the first time for some Ā鶹¹ū¶³ students came through a summer internship program in Florence, Italy. āI had been waiting for an opportunity to travel abroad,ā said Andrea Sutton, a Kent State hospitality management student. āAnd now Iāve beeā¦
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Kent State Graduate Student Crowned Miss Ohio 2015
Sarah Hider, a Ā鶹¹ū¶³ graduate student from Wooster, Ohio, has been crowned Miss Ohio 2015 after competing at the Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield, Ohio, on June 20. Hider is the second Kent State student in the past two years to win the title. Heather Wells, a Kent State broadcast joā¦
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Scholar of the Month
Scholar of the Month Andrew Shahriari Associate Professor of Music College of the Arts 2008-present Andrew Shahriari has been recently promoted to associate professor for the 2015-2016 academic year. He also serves as coordinator of online classes for music in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Muā¦
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Students Help Get New Exercise Program in Shape
In the gym of the MAC Center Annex, you can hear the voices of student trainers echo from one end to the other. āNice long strides with those feet,ā shouts one student trainer. āLetās lunge to me,ā encourages another. Ā鶹¹ū¶³ exercise physiology graduate students are plaā¦
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Kent State Communication Students Invade UK, Ireland for Education Abroad Experience
Fifty Ā鶹¹ū¶³ students from the College of Communication and Information participated in education abroad programs in Europe this spring, visiting Northern Ireland, Ireland and England in May. Three of the collegeās classes studied specialized areas in communications in both the U.Kā¦
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