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Two ��ñ�� graduates are making strides to eliminate gender roles and stereotypes with their graphic novel titled “Play Like A Girl.” David Wilson '09, adjunct professor of Illustration, Design and Graphic Narrative at Kent State, and his wife, Misty Wilson '15, a graduate of the Masters of Arts Teaching program at Kent State, are the couple behind this powerful story.  The graphic novel chronicles Misty’s seventh-grade experience being the only girl on her town’s football team and showcases the challenges she faced.  “I really felt I had a stor...

KENT, Ohio – Research conducted by ��ñ��and Illinois State faculty found that a COVID-19 diagnosis lowered same-semester GPA for students at a state university. C. Lockwood Reynolds, Ph.D., professor of economics at the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, along with co-author Timothy Harris, assistant professor of economics at Illinois State, studied data provided by a large public university to help better understand how a COVID-19 diagnosis affected student success in higher education. While the impacts of the pandemic on higher education have been...

The Student Nurses Association at ��ñ��East Liverpool spearheaded a project to help provide gifts for 100 local children through the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree project. Students, faculty and staff across campus participated in the outreach effort, collecting baby dolls, trucks, games, Legos, other toys, coats, clothing and four bikes. Angela Douglass, senior lecturer in the ADN program on the East Liverpool Campus, helped the students organize the outreach project and noted that this partnership has continued for 20 years. “The spirit of giving is evident each year,” she said. ...

 Her journey into the world of healthcare began on the ��ñ��Salem Campus and now Tabitha Lockhart is using that foundation to care for patients as a certified physician assistant (PA-C) at the Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating from the Salem Campus radiologic technology program in 2007, Lockhart worked full time as a mobile X-ray technologist, traveling throughout Ohio. At the same time, she took classes through ��ñ��and earned her bachelor’s degree in public health in 2012.“Throughout my X-ray tech career, I knew I wanted to have more re...

��ñ��entrepreneurship graduate Evan Schumann ’17 and his wife Marisa Sergi were recently recognized in the Food & Drink category of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. Schumann is co-owner of L’uva Bella Winery with Sergi, whose family has been in the wine business for over 15 years. Following graduation from Kent State, Schumann started a company in the chemical industry. He then began working in consulting and mergers and acquisitions. In 2020, he and Sergi acquired L’uva Bella. The company currently distributes in nine states across the Midwest and East Coast and will launch in a 10t...

The keyword is collaboration. At the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, a new educational partnership between ��ñ�� and Geauga County’s Berkshire Local School District took shape with the opening of the new pre-K-12th-grade Berkshire school building on the ��ñ��Geauga Campus in Burton. Effectively creating shared resources and enhanced learning opportunities for all students along life’s timeline, PRIME (Partners in Rural Innovative Models of Education) is the guiding principle behind the innovative K‐16 approach toward education in Geauga County.    As the...

KENT, Ohio – As she prepares to graduate from ��ñ��in December, senior Sophia Edmunds reflects on an unexpected achievement that capped off her senior year. On Dec. 1, Edmunds – a senior fashion merchandising major and marketing minor – took first place in the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship’s Idea Pitch competition for her idea, REVEIL. The competition, hosted by the John S. and Marlene J. Brinzo Center for Entrepreneurship, helps ��ñ��students develop their startup companies and pitch their business ideas to a panel of executive judges to...