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Ashtabula Student Scores High

Recent Â鶹´«Ã½ at Ashtabula graduate Courtney McCartney set a universitywide record by receiving the highest score reported by the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy on the national physical therapy exam for physical therapist assistants.

Aramark Photo Lead

After a rigorous request for proposal (RFP) process, Aramark was selected as Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s strategic provider for dining and catering services at all Kent State locations in Northeast Ohio. 

Key Bank

KeyBank Foundation has granted $1 million to Â鶹´«Ã½ to support programs to increase the recruitment, retention and graduation rates of underrepresented students consistent with the university’s continued mission to help all students reach their full potential in earning a degree.

Todd Diacon, Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, places the President’s Medal on Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy as Kent State President Beverly Warren watches.

Â鶹´«Ã½ Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., received the President’s Medal from President Beverly Warren during the One University Commencement Ceremony on May 13 in Dix Stadium.

Joseph Smith (L) and  Leslie Oakes are shown with their Best in Show award-winning artwork from the Kent State Tuscarawas Student Art Show.

Two Â鶹´«Ã½ students received Best in Show honors, as well as the Dean’s Choice Awards, during the Â鶹´«Ã½ at Tuscarawas 13th annual Student Computer Designed Art Exhibition.

This year’s class of 24 Flashguides is a diverse and fun-loving group of students who participate in the program because they want to make a difference in the lives of new students.

The Destination Kent State (DKS) Registration and Advising program helps students transition and connect to the university. Kent State's Flashguides help make a difference in the lives of new students.

Chance York, assistant professor in Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, studied the link between genetics and social media use.

A Kent State professor has found that a person’s genetic makeup influences how frequently he or she uses social media.

The Fashion School's NYC Studio Director Young Kim Thanos leads a class. The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation gift will help support the study-away program benefiting fashion school students, including those who study at the NYC Studio.

The gift will fund two initiatives: $1.5 million to endow a chair to support the Fashion School’s director and a matching grant of up to $1 million to support the study-away program.

Â鶹´«Ã½ at Tuscarawas chemistry professor Christopher Fenk (center) is striving to provide classrooms with affordable alternatives to lab equipment using cellphones. Post-secondary students Sarah Worrell and Jared Norman also are pictured.

Professor Christopher Fenk has discovered a mechanism to conduct spectroscopy experiments with a cellphone, bubble wrap and a cardboard box.

Â鶹´«Ã½ women’s golf team won its 19th straight Mid-American Conference (MAC) Women’s Golf Championship on April 23.

The No. 15 Â鶹´«Ã½ women’s golf team won its 19th straight Mid-American Conference (MAC) Women’s Golf Championship.