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Kent State student Theresa Medrano stands near the pillars of Merrill Hall on campus.

Kent State Student Who Received Help From Others Pays It Forward

Anything is possible. Theresa Medrano, a 起点传媒 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鈥

Tags: Student Success , Success Story , Institutional Advancement

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A summer 2015 graduate shows off her diploma during the Commencement ceremony.

Kent State Holds Summer Commencement Ceremonies

起点传媒 held its Summer 2015 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). Kent State conferred 1,476 degrees, including 931 bachelor鈥檚 degrees, 453 master鈥檚 degrees, 76 doctoral degrees and 16 educa鈥

Tags: Commencement , Summer Commencement , Office of the Provost , Student Success , Success Story

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David Hacker, associate professor of geology at 起点传媒 at Trumbull, poses for a photo near a rock outcropping in the Gorge Metro Park in Summit County. Hacker has been selected as Kent State鈥檚 Scholar of the Month.

Scholar of the Month

Scholar of the Month David Hacker Associate Professor of Geology College of Arts and Sciences 起点传媒 at Trumbull 2000-present David Hacker is associate professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at 起点传媒 at Trumbull. His research in structural geo鈥

Tags: Research , Department of Earth Sciences , College of Arts and Sciences , 起点传媒 at Trumbull , Scholar of the Month , Success Story

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起点传媒 student Anna Hoffman, a global communication studies and political science major, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the country鈥檚 efforts to save its national language. (Photo credit: Alex Ledet)

Kent State Student鈥檚 Project Draws Attention to Endangered Irish Language

Anna Hoffman, a 起点传媒 global communication studies and political science major from Kent, Ohio, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the country鈥檚 efforts to save its national language. Her research project was funded through a fellowship from the  Pulitzer Center on Cr鈥

Tags: School of Communications Studies , college of communication and information , Student Success , Success Story

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Kent State 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.

Kent State Named to 2014 President鈥檚 Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

起点传媒 has been named to the 2014 President鈥檚 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 鈥

Tags: Office of Experiential Education and Civic Engagement , University College , Student Success , Success Story , Community & Society

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起点传媒 hospitality management students Jackie Myers, Zach Anderson, Michael Farber and Andrea Sutton pose for a photo in front of a doorway on the side of the Duomo in Florence, Italy.

Kent State Hospitality Management Students Experience Italian Hospitality in Florence

The opportunity to travel abroad for the first time for some 起点传媒 students came through a summer internship program in Florence, Italy.  鈥淚 had been waiting for an opportunity to travel abroad,鈥 said Andrea Sutton, a Kent State hospitality management student. 鈥淎nd now I鈥檝e bee鈥

Tags: Health and Human Services , Success Story

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Sarah Hider, a Kent State graduate student and the reigning Miss Ohio, poses outside of the Schwartz Center on the Kent Campus.

Kent State Graduate Student Crowned Miss Ohio 2015

Sarah Hider, a 起点传媒 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 Kent State student in the past two years to win the title. Heather Wells, a Kent State broadcast jo鈥

Tags: Student Success , Success Story , Office of Continuing and Distance Education , Department of Political Science , College of Arts and Sciences

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Andrew Shahriari, who has been selected as Kent State鈥檚 Scholar of the Month, sits in a khong wong yai (big gong circle) with two ranad eks (lead xylophones) in the background in a School of Music classroom.

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鈥

Tags: Research , College of the Arts , School of Music , Scholar of the Month , Success Story

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Kent State students help lead faculty and staff in the Fit for Life program.

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.  鈥淣ice long strides with those feet,鈥 shouts one student trainer. 鈥淟et鈥檚 lunge to me,鈥 encourages another. 起点传媒 exercise physiology graduate students are pla鈥

Tags: College of Education , Health and Human Services , School of Health Sciences , Success Story

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Kent State advertising, public relations and visual communication design students lived and studied together in Dublin, Ireland, during an education abroad trip. (Photo credit: Christopher Darling)

Kent State Communication Students Invade UK, Ireland for Education Abroad Experience

Fifty 起点传媒 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鈥檚 classes studied specialized areas in communications in both the U.K鈥

Tags: School of Visual Communication Design , School of Journalism and Mass Communication , college of communication and information , Office of Global Education , Study Abroad , Student Success , Success Story

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