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91²Ö¿â student Ashley Flowers poses under a bridge in downtown Kent with a bag full of items she hands out to the homeless in downtown Cleveland.

91²Ö¿â Student 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 91²Ö¿â, 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 91²Ö¿â’s College of Public Health and LaunchNET 91²Ö¿â to help her company, Endemic Solutions, develop its Endemic Filtration Portable Handwashing System.

Life-Changing Event Inspires 91²Ö¿â Entrepreneur to Help Prevent Infectious Diseases

In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, who received her bachelor’s degree from 91²Ö¿â in 2013 and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental health sciences at 91²Ö¿â, 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 91²Ö¿â , Student Success Story , Success Story , Community & Society , Health

Kent Campus

91²Ö¿â President Beverly Warren, pictured here with 91²Ö¿â students, has personally matched $25,000 for donations made to 91²Ö¿â on Giving Tuesday.

A Very Special Thank You to the 91²Ö¿â Community for Its Generosity on Giving Tuesday

The 91²Ö¿â 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 91²Ö¿â Fund, 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

91²Ö¿â Community Members Share What They Are Thankful for This Year

Happy Thanksgiving! Watch this video to find out what members of the 91²Ö¿â community, including President Beverly Warren, are thankful for this year.  

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

Kent Campus

91²Ö¿â students, 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.

91²Ö¿â Named to 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

91²Ö¿â 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

REMINDER: 91²Ö¿â Invites Community to Final Public Meeting for Airport Master Plan

The final public meeting for the 91²Ö¿â 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. The first public meeting was held in 2013 to introduce the project to the comm…

Tags: College of Applied Engineering Sustainability and Technology , Aeronautics , Division of Finance and Administration , 91²Ö¿â Airport , Community & Society

Kent Campus

91²Ö¿â Researchers Use LEGO Camps to Build Relationships With the Community

A special classroom at 91²Ö¿â 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

91²Ö¿â Named to 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

91²Ö¿â 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 , Center of Nutrition Outreach , School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies , Awards and Honors , Community & Society

Kent Campus

Nick Gattozzi Named 91²Ö¿â’s New Executive Director of Government and Community Relations

Greater Cleveland Partnership vice president to lead university’s government outreach 91²Ö¿â President Beverly Warren has selected Nick Gattozzi as the executive director of government and community relations. Gattozzi comes to 91²Ö¿â from the Greater Cleveland Partnership where …

Tags: Government Relations , Community & Society

Kent Campus

91²Ö¿â Invites Community to Final Public Meeting for Airport Master Plan

91²Ö¿â Invites Community to Final Public Meeting for Airport Master Plan The final public meeting for the 91²Ö¿â 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: College of Technology , Community & Society

Kent Campus