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Kent State Welcomes New Students to Campus at Welcome Weekend, Aug. 27-30
Before the fall semester begins on Aug. 31, new students are invited to participate in Welcome Weekend, a four-day orientation program that will last from Aug. 27-30 and acclimate students to the Kent State University community. The event is an opportunity for students to transition into the univers…
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Movers and Groovers Help New Students Move Into Residence Halls on Campus
At the beginning of the school year each August, Kent State University faculty, staff and students volunteer with the university’s Movers and Groovers program to help incoming freshmen move into their new university housing. Freshman move-in day took place Thursday, Aug. 27, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.…
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Kent State Student Helps Congress Change Child Welfare Laws
The pain of moving from one home to the next, time and time again, for four years straight is helping Keri Richmond speak out for other foster children without a voice. Richmond, a Kent State University junior majoring in public relations in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, s…
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Kent State Student Who Received Help From Others Pays It Forward
Anything is possible. Theresa Medrano, a Kent State University 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…
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Kent State Holds Summer Commencement Ceremonies
Kent State University 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’s degrees, 453 master’s degrees, 76 doctoral degrees and 16 educa…
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Scholar of the Month
Scholar of the Month David Hacker Associate Professor of Geology College of Arts and Sciences Kent State University at Trumbull 2000-present David Hacker is associate professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University at Trumbull. His research in structural geo…
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Kent State Student’s Project Draws Attention to Endangered Irish Language
Anna Hoffman, a Kent State University global communication studies and political science major from Kent, Ohio, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the country’s efforts to save its national language. Her research project was funded through a fellowship from the Pulitzer Center on Cr…
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Kent State Named to 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
Kent State University 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 …
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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 Kent State University students came through a summer internship program in Florence, Italy. “I had been waiting for an opportunity to travel abroad,” said Andrea Sutton, a Kent State hospitality management student. “And now I’ve bee…
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Kent State Graduate Student Crowned Miss Ohio 2015
Sarah Hider, a Kent State University 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…
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