Tyler and JuliaFun Cheering on the Golden FlashesOur StoryWe both lived in the same apartment complex on Summit during our junior years, but we met on campus at an environmental discussion in August 2010. After finding out we lived in the same area, we found reasons to hang out. However, if it wasn’t for the football games just down the road we wouldn’t have been able to break the ice so easily! Our first three dates were Kent State football games. Finally, Tyler asked me to be his girlfriend right before we left for the Homecoming game. We are in love, and we have Kent State to thank for it.&...
Joey and AlexA Koonce Hall RomanceOur Story Kent State played a major role in my relationship with Alex. I met her the day I moved into my dorm room on campus in Koonce Hall. She was living there as well. While she’s from Pittsburgh and I’m from Canton, she happened to be high school best friends with my random roommate in Koonce. The three of us became great friends immediately. Alex and I spent most of our freshman year as friends. I loved hanging out with her! We didn’t start dating until the spring semester that year and from that moment I have never been happier in my life!&nbs...
For the second time in five years, the Association for Information Technology Professionals (AITP) student group at Kent State Ashtabula has been recognized by the national professional organization as its “Outstanding Student Chapter of the Year.” The award was presented at the CompTIA All Member Meeting in St. Louis, Mo., on Tuesday, Dec. 18. The Kent State Ashtabula chapter previously won the award in 2014 and prior to 2017 was a nearly yearly recipient of the “Outstanding Regional Chapter” award. CompTIA, a leading voice globally in the information technology ecosy...
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Significant milestones are recognized every five years of continuous employment. Anniversaries are listed on this page alphabetically and by years of service, and are posted after the close of each month.
Palaeocast - Episode 96: Decapods Decapods are a group of crustaceans that include such well-known families as crabs, lobsters and shrimp. Whilst crustaceans are known from as early as the Cambrian, we don’t see the first decapods until Devonian. Over the course of their evolutionary history, decapods have remained relatively conservative in their morphology with the exception of some interesting forms in the Mesozoic. In this episode, Dr Carrie Schweitzer, 5XÉçÇř, gives us a run-down of the taxonomy and evolutionary history of the decapods and we explore the Middle T...
As Kent State senior Angela Deibel guides the ZEV (Zero Emission Vehicle) from the Aeronautics and Technology Building to front campus on a recent sunny day, she glances at a row of small lights that flash overhead. “Those lights let us know that the battery has charged,” she explains to a passenger. “One day of sunlight (24 hours) equals eight miles.” The ZEV is a repurposed golf cart with an electric engine powered by three sources: a fuel cell, solar panel and batteries. The fuel cell efficiently converts fuel, such as hydrogen or natural gas, into electricity with no greenhouse gas e...