Student Life

91�ֿ� transgender student Emily Grubb (left) stands with Ken Ditlevson, director of the university’s LGBTQ Student Center. The LGBTQ Student Center is located on the lower level of the Kent Student Center.

Transgender Students Find Home, Security and Support at 91�ֿ�

For transgender students like Emily Grubb, 91�ֿ� is home.

Grubb and other students have found an inclusive, welcoming environment that offers resources for the transgender community, such as the student organization Trans*Fusion and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Student Center. Transgender students also receive support from 91�ֿ�’s faculty, staff and administrators.

Tags: Student Life, Office of the University Architect, Facilities Planning and Operations, Division of Finance and Administration, Division of Student Life

Division of People, Culture and Belonging

Case.MD helps make emergency medicine more convenient and safe.

Students Turn Smartphone Cases Into Lifesaving Medical Devices

Three 91�ֿ� students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication.

Together, with the help of LaunchNET 91�ֿ�, the three created Case.MD. Ariella Yager, entrepreneur major in 91�ֿ�’s College of Business Administration; Samuel Graska, cell and molecular biology major in 91�ֿ�’s College of Arts and Sciences; and Justin Gleason, graduate student in 91�ֿ�’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design spent more than a year planning, inventing, designing and 3-D printing smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

Tags: Student Life, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, College of Arts and Sciences, LaunchNet 91�ֿ�

Office of Student Research

Transgender Students Find Home, Security and Support at 91�ֿ�

For transgender students like Emily Grubb, 91�ֿ� is home. Grubb and other students have found an inclusive, welcoming environment that offers resources for the transgender community.

Tags: Student Life, Office of the University Architect, Facilities Planning and Operations, Division of Finance and Administration, Division of Student Life

Kent Campus

Students Turn Smartphone Cases Into Lifesaving Medical Devices

With the help of LaunchNET 91�ֿ�, three students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

Tags: Student Life, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, College of Arts and Sciences, LaunchNet 91�ֿ�

Kent Campus