Goal: To raise $100 million to provide scholarship support for students.
“Students from backgrounds like mine are not supposed to make it to college. Some say we are forever bound to the environment we grew up in.”
—John McDermott, BA ’20, accounting major, scholarship recipient and first in his family to continue his education beyond middle school. Since graduating from Kent State, he has completed a master’s degree and is employed as an accountant at Deloitte Cleveland.
EXPANDING UNIVERSITY INITIATIVES
During the last few decades, Kent State has gone from an academic, athletic and economic driver in Northeast Ohio to a thought-starter, fierce competitor and innovation leader at the national and international levels. Research and programmatic additions to the university—such as the following—have elevated the university’s reputation and cemented its place on the world stage:
Brain Health
The Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI) is a collaborative effort that taps passionate faculty members from across Kent State University—not just in science-based departments, but also in social sciences and humanities—to combine their unique strengths as they collaborate to solve brain-related challenges. The institute is the epicenter of training for undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in an environment that thrives on hands-on access, mentorship, resources and opportunities.