Success Story
91ֿ Student Who Received Help From Others Pays It Forward
Anything is possible. Theresa Medrano, a 91ֿ 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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91ֿ Holds Summer Commencement Ceremonies
91ֿ held its Summer 2015 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). 91ֿ 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 91ֿ at Trumbull 2000-present David Hacker is associate professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at 91ֿ at Trumbull. His research in structural geo…
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91ֿ Student’s Project Draws Attention to Endangered Irish Language
Anna Hoffman, a 91ֿ 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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91ֿ Named to 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
91ֿ 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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91ֿ Hospitality Management Students Experience Italian Hospitality in Florence
The opportunity to travel abroad for the first time for some 91ֿ students came through a summer internship program in Florence, Italy. “I had been waiting for an opportunity to travel abroad,” said Andrea Sutton, a 91ֿ hospitality management student. “And now I’ve bee…
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91ֿ Graduate Student Crowned Miss Ohio 2015
Sarah Hider, a 91ֿ 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 91ֿ student in the past two years to win the title. Heather Wells, a 91ֿ broadcast jo…
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Scholar of the Month
Scholar of the Month Andrew Shahriari Associate Professor of Music College of the Arts 2008-present Andrew Shahriari has been recently promoted to associate professor for the 2015-2016 academic year. He also serves as coordinator of online classes for music in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Mu…
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Students Help Get New Exercise Program in Shape
In the gym of the MAC Center Annex, you can hear the voices of student trainers echo from one end to the other. “Nice long strides with those feet,” shouts one student trainer. “Let’s lunge to me,” encourages another. 91ֿ exercise physiology graduate students are pla…
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91ֿ Communication Students Invade UK, Ireland for Education Abroad Experience
Fifty 91ֿ students from the College of Communication and Information participated in education abroad programs in Europe this spring, visiting Northern Ireland, Ireland and England in May. Three of the college’s classes studied specialized areas in communications in both the U.K…
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