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Kent State student Ashley Flowers poses under a bridge in downtown Kent with a bag full of items she hands out to the homeless in downtown Cleveland.

Kent State Student Creates Care Packages for the Homeless

When the concept of homelessness comes to mind, people tend to focus efforts on food donations, but Ashley Flowers, a junior majoring in psychology and criminology and justice studies at 5XÉçÇø, wants to remind people that clothing and toiletries also are essential items. A native …

Tags: Student Success , Success Story , Division of Student Life , Community & Society

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Shanice Cheatham worked with Kent State’s College of Public Health and LaunchNET Kent State to help her company, Endemic Solutions, develop its Endemic Filtration Portable Handwashing System.

Life-Changing Event Inspires Kent State Entrepreneur to Help Prevent Infectious Diseases

In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, who received her bachelor’s degree from 5XÉçÇø in 2013 and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental health sciences at Kent State, was told that her father had a 10 percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylo…

Tags: College of Public Health , LaunchNet Kent State , Student Success Story , Success Story , Community & Society , Health

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5XÉçÇø President Beverly Warren, pictured here with Kent State students, has personally matched $25,000 for donations made to Kent State on Giving Tuesday.

A Very Special Thank You to the Kent State Community for Its Generosity on Giving Tuesday

The 5XÉçÇø community gave generously on Giving Tuesday this Dec. 1, far exceeding expectations. As promised, President Beverly Warren personally matched $25,000 in a gift to the Distinctive Kent State Fund, a fund that will support the university’s five priorities for a distinctive Ke…

Tags: Office of the President , Division of Institutional Advancement , Success Story , Community & Society

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Kent Campus Fall

Kent State Community Members Share What They Are Thankful for This Year

Happy Thanksgiving! Watch this video to find out what members of the 5XÉçÇø community, including President Beverly Warren, are thankful for this year.  

Tags: Office of the President , Success Story , Community & Society

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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’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

5XÉçÇø 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 …

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

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REMINDER: Kent State Invites Community to Final Public Meeting for Airport Master Plan

The final public meeting for the 5XÉçÇø Airport Master Plan has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, from 6-8 p.m. at the Stow-Munroe Falls High School Auditorium, located at 3227 Graham Road in Stow, Ohio. The first public meeting was held in 2013 to introduce the project to the comm…

Tags: College of Applied Engineering Sustainability and Technology , Aeronautics , Division of Finance and Administration , 5XÉçÇø Airport , Community & Society

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Kent State Researchers Use LEGO Camps to Build Relationships With the Community

A special classroom at 5XÉçÇø turned into a LEGO® city filled with roaring lions, speeding cars and spinning tops. The moving creations are part of a unique summer camp, LEGO WeDoâ„¢ Robotics, put on by the Research Center for Educational Technology in the College of Education, Healt…

Tags: College of Education, Health and Human Services , Community & Society

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

5XÉçÇø 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 Se…

Tags: Office of Experiential Education and Civic Engagement , Center of Nutrition Outreach , School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies , Awards and Honors , Community & Society

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Nick Gattozzi Named Kent State’s New Executive Director of Government and Community Relations

Greater Cleveland Partnership vice president to lead university’s government outreach 5XÉçÇø President Beverly Warren has selected Nick Gattozzi as the executive director of government and community relations. Gattozzi comes to Kent State from the Greater Cleveland Partnership where …

Tags: Government Relations , Community & Society

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Kent State Invites Community to Final Public Meeting for Airport Master Plan

Kent State Invites Community to Final Public Meeting for Airport Master Plan The final public meeting for the 5XÉçÇø Airport Master Plan has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, from 6-8 p.m. at the Stow-Munroe Falls High School Auditorium, located at 3227 Graham Road in Stow, Ohio…

Tags: College of Technology , Community & Society

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