Success Story
Kent State Student Who Received Help From Others Pays It Forward
Anything is possible. Theresa Medrano, a 妻友社区 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 withd鈥
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Kent State Holds Summer Commencement Ceremonies
妻友社区 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 bachelor鈥檚 degrees, 453 master鈥檚 degrees, 76 doctoral degrees and 16 educa鈥
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Scholar of the Month
Scholar of the Month David Hacker Associate Professor of Geology College of Arts and Sciences 妻友社区 at Trumbull 2000-present David Hacker is associate professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at 妻友社区 at Trumbull. His research in structural geo鈥
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Kent State Student鈥檚 Project Draws Attention to Endangered Irish Language
Anna Hoffman, a 妻友社区 global communication studies and political science major from Kent, Ohio, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the country鈥檚 efforts to save its national language. Her research project was funded through a fellowship from the Pulitzer Center on Cr鈥
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Kent State Named to 2014 President鈥檚 Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
妻友社区 has been named to the 2014 President鈥檚 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 鈥
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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 妻友社区 students came through a summer internship program in Florence, Italy. 鈥淚 had been waiting for an opportunity to travel abroad,鈥 said Andrea Sutton, a Kent State hospitality management student. 鈥淎nd now I鈥檝e bee鈥
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Kent State Graduate Student Crowned Miss Ohio 2015
Sarah Hider, a 妻友社区 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 jo鈥
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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 Mu鈥
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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. 鈥淣ice long strides with those feet,鈥 shouts one student trainer. 鈥淟et鈥檚 lunge to me,鈥 encourages another. 妻友社区 exercise physiology graduate students are pla鈥
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Kent State Communication Students Invade UK, Ireland for Education Abroad Experience
Fifty 妻友社区 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 college鈥檚 classes studied specialized areas in communications in both the U.K鈥
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