A year before Timothy Griffin graduated from Kent State University at Tuscarawas in 2017 with an Associate of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology degree and a certificate in computer-aided design for manufacturing, a single phone call would launch his career and have him designing life-saving firetrucks before he graduated. The story starts with Larry Reber, president of Firovac Power Systems, a fire apparatus manufacturer that specializes in high performance tankers and fire trucks. Reber discovered when he launched his business that there were two main issues for local ci...
Julianne Lambeth, RN was inspired to become a nurse by those who cared for her mother through cancer treatment. But she didn’t learn to think like a nurse until she attended the Associate of Applied Science in Nursing program at the Kent State University Twinsburg Academic Center (TAC). Lambeth recalls, “My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and the nurses that we saw each week impacted our lives so much during her treatment, they truly inspired me to do the same for others. So I changed my major to nursing.” At the time, Lambeth was set on becoming a dental hygienist. She had co...
Kent State University has announced the recipients of the 2020 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Awards (ORSA). Sponsored by the University Research Council and the Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, this award honors Kent State’s exceptional researchers and scholars. Awardees are selected based on the quality of their research and scholarship and its impact on society. This year’s ORSAs are awarded to experts in the areas of geographical sciences (Scott Sheridan), theatre studies (Yuko Kurahashi) and psychological sciences (Angela Neal-Barnett). “Faculty chosen by the Unive...
Kent State University has announced the recipients of the New Faculty Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award (New ORSA). These awards recognize the hard work and dedication of faculty who have been at Kent State for 10 years or less and are sponsored by the University Research Council. “This year’s New ORSA winners ideally represent the strength and breadth of research and scholarship at Kent State University,” said Paul DiCorleto, vice president for research at Kent State. “We are looking forward to the next great accomplishments of the awardees.” This year’s New ORSA winners, Sara Bayr...
College of the Arts Offers Virtual Performances in December The Glauser School of Music will continue offering pre-recorded virtual performances in December that include live student recitals. View the performance schedule. December Ensemble Performance Schedule: Jazz Studies Fall Concert Featuring large jazz ensembles and combos. Fri., Dec. 4, 8 p.m. New Music Ensemble Concert II Sat., Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m. Kent State Bands: Fall Concert Part II Featuring woodwind and brass chamber music. Sun., Dec. 6, 3 p.m. Kent State Choral Collage Featuring the Kent Chorale, Cantique, Coro Canta...
Students in the associate degree in nursing program on the East Liverpool Campus were determined to hold a successful holiday collection to support the local Salvation Army, keeping alive a tradition that goes back several years. The Student Nurses Association collected toys, clothes, gift wrap and money to donate to the Salvation Army for its upcoming holiday outreach program. Student nurses also held a book raffle earlier in the semester and donated the proceeds from that fundraiser to this project. “This is an annual philanthropic endeavor that the SNA takes on each year to give bac...
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Construction Photo Gallery Office of the Architect Project Fact Sheet Kent State University at Ashtabula is one of six Kent State regional campuses that added solar panels during the 2020-2021 academic year. Work began in Fall 2020 and included the installation of 2,160 ground-mounted photovoltaic panels on the former site of Jammal Field. The Ashtabula solar array will provide 864 kilowatts (1,161,216 kilowatt hours) of clean energy each year, representing about 68 percent of campus use. It is enough energy to power 139 homes and eliminate 905 tons of CO₂ per year. In 2019, Kent State Uni...
Kent State University President Todd Diacon joins the entire campus community in thanking the hard-working staff and faculty members who have pulled together to keep the university’s eight-campus system operating throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the video: ...