Zach Camporese

Former Golden Eagles basketball standout, Zach Camporese, has just been voted high school Coach of the Year in the Florida Athletic Coaches Association, 6A, District 9 and Overall Coach of the Year for all classifications of District 9 by his peers. ...

Judy Devine: Equity Champion

In honor of Women’s History Month, Kent State Today will be looking at the accomplishments of Kent State women who have advanced the cause of women, broken glass ceilings and left a lasting impact on women’s history.   Judy Devine has been called the matriarch of Kent State University athletics.   She arrived at Kent State in 1969 as a graduate assistant, coming from Colorado State University, where she played five varsity sports, earned 18 letters and graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education. She earned her master’s degree in heal...

Celia Martin sits at a desk and poses for a photo.

When Kent Interhall Council hosted CAACURH during the fall 2022 semester, many different designs were seen on campus leading up to and throughout the event. Celia Martin, a senior visual communication design major and multimedia designer for University Housing and Culinary Services, is responsible for much of the design. “I designed all of the assets for the event (e.g. logos, wayfinding signs, maps, shirts, stickers). Certain things were more straightforward, some I had more creative freedom over,” Martin said. When working on a project of this caliber, much of the process is reliant on...

U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes tours the Stark Campus on March 14

While a student at Kent State University, U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-OH-13) dreamed of taking the stage as a dancer in New York City, not as a congresswoman in Washington, D.C. But today she’s a star in the eyes of many, with her federal legislative debut drawing attention beyond Northeast Ohio.  This Akron native comes by her position naturally, as the daughter of former state representatives Barbara and Vernon Sykes, who is now an Ohio state senator. Although the junior Sykes has a love for the arts, this civically minded woman said she’s always felt a strong call to help people, ...

For some students, Kent State residence halls are merely a place to sleep at night. For others, like Caleb Strack, his dedication to housing has opened the door to many opportunities. Strack, a senior majoring in accounting and finance, originally volunteered to serve as NRHH’s Director of Business Operations in Spring 2021. Currently serving as Kent’s National Residence Hall Honorary President and the Executive Director of Kent Interhall Council, Strack has jumped headfirst into residence hall leadership, making great progress is a short amount of time. According to the advisor of t...

Melanie Kirin

Melanie Kirin, a lecturer in Career-Technical Teacher Education in the School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies, has received the bronze Teaching Recognition Award in teaching development from Kent State's Center for Teaching and Learning. The teaching development awards program recognizes actions that enhance teaching and learning at Kent State University. The program allows instructors to earn tiered awards (bronze, silver, gold & platinum) for their efforts to learn about, implement, evaluate and investigate evidence-based instructional practices. All instructors at K...

Image of DNA strands by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

According to the National Cancer Institute, there are 623,405 people living with metastatic breast, prostate, lung, colorectal or bladder cancer or metastatic melanoma in the United States, and that number is expected to increase to 693,452 by the year 2025. With the estimated number of cases on the rise, now is the time to stop this disease in its tracks. Professors at Kent State University are trying to do just that.   Hanbin Mao, Ph.D., professor, and Yaorong Zheng, Ph.D., associate professor, both of chemistry and biochemistry, and Yuki Suzuki, Ph.D., at Mie University in ...

Kent State President Todd Diacon speaks at the March 9 Board of Trustees Meeting

Ohio higher education leaders heard firsthand how Kent State brings a major return on investment as a students-first university at the university’s Board of Trustees quarterly meeting held March 9 in Columbus.  President Todd Diacon took the opportunity to make the presentation “Kent State Works” at the Board of Trustees meeting, which was held at Le Meridien Columbus, The Joseph. The presentation illustrated how Kent State prepares its students for job readiness and gives an economic boost to the communities it serves. Chancellor of the Ohio Department of Higher Education Randy Gar...

Panelists speaking during 2022 Meonske Conference

KENT, Ohio – The Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship will host the 47th Annual Meonske Professional Development Conference April 27-28 at the Kent State University Student Center Kiva. The annual conference provides attendees with an opportunity to learn and network with other accounting and finance professionals. The conference is named for Kent State University Professor Emeritus Norman Meonske, the conference founder. This year’s event will feature engaging sessions on a variety of timely topics for accounting and finance professionals. It provides two days of...

College of Education, Health and Human Services

Eric Young

Malone University announced it has appointed Dr. Eric Young, MED ’13, PHD ’21, to the position of Vice President for Enrollment effective, April 3. Young comes to Malone from Walsh University where he currently serves as Director of Undergraduate Admissions. Previously, Young has served as an Admission Counselor, Transfer Coordinator, Assistant Director of Admission, Associate Director of Admission, and Director of Admission. His work in the enrollment field led to his current appointment as chair of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Recruitme...

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