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ÂÌñÉçstudent Ashley Flowers poses under a bridge in downtown Kent with a bag full of items she hands out to the homeless in downtown Cleveland.

ÂÌñÉçStudent Creates Care Packages for the Homeless

When the concept of homelessness comes to mind, people tend to focus efforts on food donations, but Ashley Flowers, a junior majoring in psychology and criminology and justice studies at ÂÌñÉç, wants to remind people that clothing and toiletries also are essential items. A native …

Tags: Student Success , Success Story , Division of Student Life , Community & Society

Kent Campus

Shanice Cheatham worked with Kent State’s College of Public Health and LaunchNET ÂÌñÉçto help her company, Endemic Solutions, develop its Endemic Filtration Portable Handwashing System.

Life-Changing Event Inspires ÂÌñÉçEntrepreneur to Help Prevent Infectious Diseases

In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, who received her bachelor’s degree from ÂÌñÉç in 2013 and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental health sciences at Kent State, was told that her father had a 10 percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylo…

Tags: College of Public Health , LaunchNet Kent State , Success Story , Community & Society , Health , Student Success

Kent Campus

ÂÌñÉç President Beverly Warren, pictured here with ÂÌñÉçstudents, has personally matched $25,000 for donations made to ÂÌñÉçon Giving Tuesday.

A Very Special Thank You to the ÂÌñÉçCommunity for Its Generosity on Giving Tuesday

The ÂÌñÉç community gave generously on Giving Tuesday this Dec. 1, far exceeding expectations. As promised, President Beverly Warren personally matched $25,000 in a gift to the Distinctive ÂÌñÉçFund, a fund that will support the university’s five priorities for a distinctive Ke…

Tags: Office of the President , Division of Institutional Advancement , Success Story , Community & Society

Kent Campus

Kent Campus Fall

ÂÌñÉçCommunity Members Share What They Are Thankful for This Year

Happy Thanksgiving! Watch this video to find out what members of the ÂÌñÉç community, including President Beverly Warren, are thankful for this year.  

Tags: Office of the President , Success Story , Community & Society

Kent Campus

ÂÌñÉçstudents, including members of its athletics teams, fraternities and sororities, joined community members to restore the Mitchell/McClelland Ballpark in the McElrath neighborhood of Ravenna Township, Ohio.

ÂÌñÉçNamed to 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

ÂÌñÉç has been named to the 2014 President’s 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 …

Tags: Office of Experiential Education and Civic Engagement , University College , Student Success , Success Story , Community & Society

Kent Campus

ÂÌñÉçResearchers Use LEGO Camps to Build Relationships With the Community

A special classroom at ÂÌñÉç turned into a LEGO® city filled with roaring lions, speeding cars and spinning tops. The moving creations are part of a unique summer camp, LEGO WeDoâ„¢ Robotics, put on by the Research Center for Educational Technology in the College of Education, Healt…

Tags: College of Education, Health and Human Services , Community & Society

Kent Campus

ÂÌñÉçNamed to 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

ÂÌñÉç has been named to the 2014 President’s 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 Se…

Tags: Office of Experiential Education and Civic Engagement , College of Education, Health and Human Services , Awards and Honors , Community & Society

Kent Campus

Nick Gattozzi Named Kent State’s New Executive Director of Government and Community Relations

Greater Cleveland Partnership vice president to lead university’s government outreach ÂÌñÉç President Beverly Warren has selected Nick Gattozzi as the executive director of government and community relations. Gattozzi comes to ÂÌñÉçfrom the Greater Cleveland Partnership where …

Tags: Government Relations , Community & Society

Kent Campus

ÂÌñÉçInvites Community to Final Public Meeting for Airport Master Plan

ÂÌñÉçInvites Community to Final Public Meeting for Airport Master Plan The final public meeting for the ÂÌñÉç Airport Master Plan has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, from 6-8 p.m. at the Stow-Munroe Falls High School Auditorium, located at 3227 Graham Road in Stow, Ohio…

Tags: Community & Society

Kent Campus

The First Group of Students With Intellectual Disabilities Gets Ready to Graduate From Kent State’s Career and Community Studies Program

Maddie Morsefield is like any other high-achieving college senior at ÂÌñÉç. She is a straight-A student. Her résumé is filled with work experience and awards, and she is going through mock interviews to help her land that first job. But what makes Morsefield extra special is that sh…

Tags: College of Education, Health and Human Services , Community & Society

Kent Campus