Kent State Student Media won 18 national awards presented by The College Media Association and The Associated Collegiate Press at the 2019 National College Media Convention in Washington, D.C. from Friday, Nov. 1 to Saturday, Nov.2. The National Media Convention is a multi-day convention that invites the best and brightest of college media to learn from industry and collegiate media professionals from across the country. One highlight of the event includes the ACP and CMA awards program. Each year, finalists are selected for recognition across multiple categories that are presented during t...

By Macy Kittleberger When cities need help imagining new possibilities for their urban places and communities, they call Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. Most recently, Kent State architecture students had the opportunity to put the skills they learn in the classroom to make an impact on local communities in Erie, Pennsylvania. “The charrette was sponsored by the Jefferson Educational Society, the Erie Community Foundation, the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority, NAIOP and the Mastriana Endowment,” said Kristen Zeiber, urban designer and project manager fo...

Kent State University’s Fashion School continuously finds ways to innovate. Its unique lifestyle boutique, Fashion School Store (FSStore), in downtown Kent recently added a new line called “Sustainability RETOLD.” This collection includes sustainably made clothing, featuring work from five different students and three faculty.   During the Spring 2019 semester, Kendra Lapolla, FSStore director, and assistant professors Chanjuan Chen and Lauren Copeland received a grant from the FSStore to create a collaborative student collection. Students were provided a concept board and encouraged to...

By Olivia Boris Kent State University’s Fashion School continuously finds ways to innovate. Its unique lifestyle boutique, Fashion School Store (FSStore), in downtown Kent recently added a new line called “Sustainability RETOLD.” This collection includes sustainably made clothing, featuring work from five different students and three faculty.   During the Spring 2019 semester, Kendra Lapolla, FSStore director, and assistant professors Chanjuan Chen and Lauren Copeland received a grant from the FSStore to create a collaborative student collection. Students were provided a concept bo...

Passion. Commitment. Fearless. Those are some of the words used by Kent State University at Ashtabula Occupational Therapy Assistant Technology faculty to describe Lauren Whitten. But they aren’t the only ones who think so highly of the second-year student from Geneva, Ohio, as Whitten was recently named the Sharon Kay Ashworth Outstanding Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) Student by the Ohio Occupational Therapy Association (OOTA). The award is designed to acknowledge student members of OOTA who participate in activities to promote occupational therapy in their community and who cont...

The Paul A. Demshar Foundation is announcing a gift of $10,000 to the Ashtabula Foundation to support Kent State University at Ashtabula’s Rising Scholars program.   The Rising Scholars program supports a select group of promising students who have been identified by their school district as having promising academic ability, but may not have access to social and educational opportunities that will allow them to reach their potential. These students are mentored by current Kent State Ashtabula students with a goal of increasing their high school graduation rates to 90 percent and having...