Expanding University Initiatives

Endowed positions are crucial for recruiting and retaining the highest-quality faculty to make a lasting impact on the university and our students.

Support enables a dynamic continuum of spaces, events and people dedicated to ideas, innovation and creation through interdisciplinary collaboration.

Support enables multidisciplinary collaboration in neuroscience research and education.

The Design Innovation (DI) Initiative focuses on the development of solutions by reaching across academic fields and partnering with industry to enhance collaboration and communication skills, critical thinking and creativity. Design Innovation is an ecosystem of physical, human and intellectual resources to help students find their purpose.

The Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI) improves our understanding of brain function in health and disease. We  focus on research and education to understand the influences that impact brain health across the lifespan and use this knowledge as a window into the prevention and treatment of brain disease.

Dr. James L. Raper, ’79, chose to support Kent State students with a planned gift that includes an endowed fund and endowed professorship that support nursing research and education.

Research awarded a $2.4 million grant to study how to use design as a tool to improve efficient care in Level I trauma rooms that stabilize and save the lives of patients. 

A Kent State researcher has designed a bicycle specially tailored to Parkinson’s patients. The bike is based on a tandem bicycle model – a bike ridden by two people.