For the past four years, the SAGE Project has recognized female students who have demonstrated innovation, creativity, risk-taking and leadership skills in their academic and personal lives. The project uses the power of storytelling to highlight students who have overcome adversity to shape their life and Kent State University experience. Twelve students will make up the SAGE Project Class of 2018 and will be recognized this spring. “The premise isn’t really to find the saddest stories, but to develop a group of stories that can connect with students and be used as a motivational tool,” says...

Kent State University’s Division of Information Services has finalized an agreement with Adobe Systems Inc. that will save Kent State students in excess of $1 million per year. Kent State students are now able to purchase Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions for only $75 per year. The current student plan for the same package ranges from $240 to $360 per year. "Information Services could not be more excited to offer this incredible savings to our students," says Jay Frye, Kent State’s director of service management. Likewise, faculty and staff members will be able to purchase the softwa...

Seventeen second-year students from the Occupational Therapy Assistant program at Kent State University at East Liverpool rolled up their sleeves, flexed their muscles and went to work to help build the Walnut Grove Playground, an all-inclusive recreational facility designed for those with special needs. Located on Columbiana-Canfield Road in Canfield, the playground features universal design concepts and inclusiveness for all. The students were on site for the first day of a two-day community build for volunteers, sponsored by the Walnut Grove organization. When the students arrived at th...

Dan Rather is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and author who has covered some of the biggest news stories of the last 60 years including the civil rights movement, Kennedy’s assassination, the Vietnam War, Watergate and 9/11. Older generations may remember Mr. Rather during the decades he spent as news anchor on the CBS Evening News and a correspondent on the news programs 60 Minutes and 48 Hours. But Mr. Rather is more recently known for expanding his journalism career to include a multimedia production company, News and Guts, which produces nonfiction content about science, technology...

Bob Christy, coordinator of photography at Kent State University, has a passion for restoring Jeeps from the 1940s and 1950s. He tears them apart, cleans each piece, locates new parts and rebuilds from the ground up. “When I was a kid, my dad dragged me out of bed at 6 a.m. and took me to a jeep race,” Mr. Christy says. “Ever since then, I have been amazed by Jeeps and have loved them. Jeeps are the ultimate play car. They are such little cars, but there is so much they can do. It’s so cool.” Rebuilding each Jeep can take up to four years, says Mr. Christy, who spent three weeks carefully wo...

Familiar Face Doug Delahanty Professor and Associate Vice President for Research, Faculty Development Department of Psychological Sciences and Division of Research and Sponsored Programs Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: My position is split between half-time faculty and half-time administrator. My research centers on identifying individuals who may experience persistent distress after a traumatic event and developing interventions to prevent persistent distress. As an administrator, I oversee faculty and student research programming. I also chair the Institutional Review Board. WO...

New Face Melissa Celko Kent State of Wellness Director Division of Student Affairs Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: It is my job to develop and lead a collaborative, university-wide initiative to create the healthiest campus in the United States by 2020. My work encompasses every campus and every person in our community. It is exciting to learn about all the amazing work being done in every area, and my role is to make sure that we are working together. I’m focused on creating collaboration, discussion, engagement and meaningful learning in every interaction. Every day is an opportun...

Kenneth Cushner, professor emeritus, School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies, served as intercultural specialist for the fall 2017 voyage around the world, “Semester at Sea.” He visited 10 countries (Germany, Spain, Ghana, South Africa, India, Myanmar, Vietnam, China, Japan and USA) on four continents over four months. Web Link: www.semesteratsea.org ...