Our Stories
Stories and Highlights from Across the Regional Campuses
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The 2023 animation school rankings from Animation Career Review have been released, and the Kent State University College of Applied and Technical Studies Animation Game Design (AGD) program is ranked 16th nationally and 20th in the Midwest. This is the 12th year for the annual…
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Her journey into the world of healthcare began on the Kent State 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.
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After an active service-related injury sidelined his military career, Richard Lehman Jr. began exploring his options and working on “Plan B.” And for this college-bound veteran, Kent State University’s Bachelor of Technical and Applied Studies degree was there for him…
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If given an opportunity, Maia Amato is going to make the most of it.
Kent State University provided Amato with opportunities from the time she was a student at Wellsville High School, and the university continues to do so as she prepares for graduate studies.
Amato began her…
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During a summer research project at Kent State University at Geauga, nursing student Lauren Petrick succeeded in isolating a bacterial virus that shows promise as an alternative to antibiotics in fighting off intestinal bacterial infections such as urinary tract infections, GI…
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Geovany Itzep-Santiago has made a habit of opening closed doors.
When he arrived in the United States, he didn’t speak English. But this Guatemalan immigrant teenager was intent on overcoming obstacles and achieving his dreams. Today, he is a Kent State University at Tuscarawas…
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Deneen (Penn) Wiers’ journey has been anything but average. A former Miss Ohio, now entrepreneur, helps small business owners through her work at Sutton Bank, one of Ohio’s top small business and agricultural lenders.
As payments marketing and event coordinator at the bank’s…
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When Dr. Omid Bagheri, assistant professor of economics, came to the Kent State Columbiana County campuses in 2017, he helped launch a “new” way of teaching that helped strengthen the connection between the Regional Campuses.
“I was among a few faculty members who started the…
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The sun was setting over a little Stow neighborhood in 1995. Eight-year-old Jennifer Daring knew it meant she would have to go inside soon. That was her mother’s rule: be home by dusk.
But Daring was always pushing it. Just a little later. Just a little more time.…
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If you enjoy playing video games – you are a hobbyist.
If you enter competitions – you are a gamer.
If you like to watch others play – you are a fan.
Together, all three make up esports, one of the fastest growing industries in the world - playing games such as Counter Strike…