Freshman, Zoology
“I like having the connection I’m building with my coach where I can just talk about how I feel and how I’m doing, and she pushes me to new boundaries and teaching me how to better myself as a student.”
It was Match Day at Kent State University’s College of Podiatric Medicine, and fourth-year student Allison Herron was excited to see if she would get her wish to do her residency in Ohio.Herron signed on to her laptop and was elated to find out that she got her wish – she was matched with Aultman Hospital, based in Canton, Ohio.This is exactly where Herron wanted to be.“When I was looking for professional schools, I wanted to stay in Ohio,” said Herron, who is a native of Salem, Ohio. “My family is really important to me. I worked at Aultman while I was an undergrad at Hiram College. I’m ...
When Sydney Brown arrived at Kent State University as a first-year student from Avon, Ohio, she didn't wait to get started. She walked into the TV2 newsroom — now Kent Stater TV — and introduced herself. That instinct to show up, dive in, and tell stories has defined every semester since.Now a senior wrapping up her journalism degree in the College of Communication and Information's School of Media and Journalism, Brown has been named a 2026 Gracie Award recipient in the On-Air Talent category for TV students — recognition from Alliance for Women in Media that honors outstanding broadcasters f...
Every year, drug-resistant bacteria kill hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. In the United States alone, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — better known as MRSA — sends hundreds of thousands of patients to the hospital and claims tens of thousands of lives. Conventional antibiotics, once the reliable frontline of defense, are losing ground. Bacteria evolve. Drugs fail. The gap between what medicine can offer and what patients need keeps widening.Inside two Kent State University laboratories, a biologist and a chemist have spent years trying to close that gap.Dr. Min-Ho Kim, a...
The Ohio Senate voted unanimously on March 25 to designate a stretch of Interstate 480 in Cuyahoga County as the Officer Jacob J. Derbin Memorial Highway, honoring the Euclid police officer who was killed in the line of duty in May 2024. Senate Bill 334, introduced by State Sen. Jerry Cirino (R-District 18), passed 32-0. The bill designates the eastbound and westbound lanes of I-480 between Lancaster Drive and I-77 as the memorial highway. It now moves to the Ohio House of Representatives for consideration.Derbin, 23, of Brooklyn Heights, Ohio, was fatally shot on May 11, 2024, while resp...
Kent State University and the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics are proud to announce the establishment of the Dr. Curtis Stone Memorial Track and Field Fund, a scholarship created through a $750,000 gift from Sara Stone Miller, '77, M.M. '79, Ph.D. '85, and her late husband, Terry Ellis Miller, Ph.D. The fund honors the legacy of Sara's father, Curtis Charles Stone, D.Ed, a three-time Olympian, World War II veteran and educator.Curtis, who served on Kent State's faculty from 1963 to 1985, was one of America's premier long-distance runners in the 1940s and 1950s. He represented the Unite...