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Sophomore Samantha Glass becomes Kent State Stark’s first University Innovation Fellow. Her efforts will spark new opportunities for student innovation, entrepreneurship, design and creativity on campus. Sophomore computer science major Samantha Glass had forgotten how much she loved coding. She’d gotten lost in larger classes on a larger campus, wasn’t doing well academically and was just about ready to give up when she transferred to �鶹��ý at Stark.  “I retook a computer science course here, with Professor [Angela] Guercio and remembered why I had ch...

A �鶹��ý student’s interpretive sign project is helping the university become more environmentally friendly. Krisztina Janossy, who graduated this past December, started her interpretive design project for sustainable features on the Kent Campus. Janossy created signs at three sites located behind Henderson Hall and the Liquid Crystal Institute®: the butterfly garden, peatland wetland and permeable pavement. Janossy worked in the Office of Environmental Health and Safety at Kent State as an environmental outreach coordinator. She graduated with a degree in communication studie...

Denise A. Seachrist, Ph.D., of Rootstown, Ohio, has been selected to serve as dean and chief administrative officer of �鶹��ý at Stark, located in North Canton, Ohio. Seachrist has served as interim dean of Kent State Stark, the only public university in Stark County and the largest Regional Campus of Kent State, since July 1, 2014. She will begin serving as the permanent dean on Feb. 1, 2016. “�鶹��ý at Stark is a very vibrant and exciting place, and I am extremely honored to serve as dean and chief administrative officer,” Seachrist said. “I look forward t...