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Team Kent State “moves” up the leaderboard �������� has been designated as one of the Top 25 most active employers in the country. The university placed 17th in the Large Employer category of this year’s national On the Move Workplace Challenge. That is a significant improvement from last year’s 29th-place finish. “Our employees continue to demonstrate their passion for opportunities to engage in their personal well-being,” says Kim Hauge, director for employee wellness at Kent State. “As a team, they rose to the occasion to move more, learn more, assess more and cheer on their ...

It all started with an idea that is now blossoming into a business, even before three �������� students graduate. Kourtney Arnold, from Kent State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services, and Asia Frazier and Tiffany Coleman, from Kent State’s College of Communication and Information, are the masterminds behind Fresh LLC, an app that they are launching to help connect students on campus to social events. The trio is breaking the mold of students interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) related fields. WKYC-TV talked with the students about the...

��������’s current Police Academy cadets recently scored a collective 100 percent on their State of Ohio Physical Fitness Assessment. Only 12 of the 29 cadets, formally known as BAS 17-016, initially passed the assessment on Feb. 6 at the beginning of the program. “They made a commitment to one another,” says Class Commander Wayne Parker, sergeant with �������� Police Department. “As a gesture of good luck for their final assessment, one of the cadets had athletic socks made for all 29 cadets with their class number stitched in them.” The assessment consists of ...

Three �������� community members have developed a new app called Circl, which reinvents how people socialize and network. “Imagine being able to share appropriate contact information in an instant with one scan on your mobile device,” says Zachary Eckert, Kent State senior finance major. “Circl allows you to do so. It is an app that brings a new definition to a meaningful connection, and it gives you the ability to share contact information on your own terms.” This past February, Eckert and his Circl co-founder Kent State alumnus Michael Frindt, ’16, who received his bachelor’s ...

Kent State’s student newspaper, The Kent Stater, is the best collegiate daily (published three times per week or more) in Ohio, according to the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest. Alumna Neville Hardman, ’16, and journalism major Kelly Powell, ’18, also received individual honors – first and second place respectively – for best collegiate feature writing, in the contest sponsored by the Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus chapters of SPJ. The contest recognizes work published in 2016, under Stater editors (now alumni) Emily Mills, ’16, and Jimmy Mil...

�������� students will soon have a unique opportunity to gain professional money management experience. Starting in the fall, the �������� Foundation will effectively start “hiring” the students to manage current investable assets. The Student Managed Investment Fund will be the first of its kind at Kent State. The purpose is to give students real-world experience and advance career opportunities. The program is designed to prepare students to work in the asset management business with an in-depth understanding of how the business works and how companies organize to...