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Stories and Highlights from Across the Regional Campuses

BSW program director and lecturer Matt Butler teaches a class from the Ashtabula Campus Zoom Room to students at three regional campus locations

First BSW Cohort Graduates, Filling Critical Gaps for Underserved Communities

May 6, 2025

Just two years after its launch, Kent State University’s Bachelor of Social Work program is seeing its first cohort of students graduate this semester. Nearly 20 students will walk across stages at the Ashtabula, Salem and Tuscarawas campuses this month, the latest milestone in…

The new Kent State Trumbull Electrical/Electronic Engineering Lab

Ohio grant helps build semiconductor lab

April 25, 2025

Kent State University at Trumbull utilized an Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) Super RAPIDS grant to add a state-of-the-art lab for its electrical/electronic engineering technology program.

Pictured (from left) are Kristine Harrington, Sheren Farag, Rachael Blasiman, Bob Antenucci, Eric Taylor, Steve Toepfer, Olivia Rice and Francis Graham at the Association for University Regional Campuses of Ohio (AURCO) annual conference

Kent State Regional Campuses Show Support for Research at Annual AURCO Conference

April 22, 2025

Kent State’s Regional Campuses were well-represented at the Association for University Regional Campuses of Ohio (AURCO) annual conference, during which Olivia Rice, a psychology student from Kent State Salem, earned a first-place…

Professor Robert Hamilton at his PBS Nature Series screening

Kent State Scientists Help Spotlight Ohio Wetlands in New PBS Nature Series

April 22, 2025

While more than 90% of Ohio’s wetlands have vanished over the past few centuries, a new nature docuseries aims to show there is hope — and a lot of work being done to protect what remains.

‘We All Have an Origin Story’

April 18, 2025

As part of Kent State’s 55-Year Commemoration of May 4, 1970, Mahli Mechenbier, a senior lecturer at Kent State University at Geauga's Twinsburg Academic Center will present “Operation: Babylift: A 50-Year Retrospective and Personal History” on May 3 at 1 p.m. with her…

Group picture at the Ohio Statehouse with Nick Gattozzi, executive director of Government and Community Relations, Kent State Ashtabula and Trumbull Dean Bill Ayers, Ph.D., Emilia Colosimo, and State Representative Nick Santucci.

Students Advocate For Regional Campuses at the Ohio Statehouse

April 4, 2025

Nicole Grimm, Occupational Therapy Assistant student Kent State University at East Liverpool.

Nicole Grimm’s Future is Designed to Help Others

Feb. 28, 2025

When setting off on a journey, it may be necessary to reverse direction and find another way to reach the destination. That could easily describe the route Nicole Grimm is taking to find her place in the working world.

Professor Mary Russell, Ph.D., instructs a student in her biological sciences lab at Kent State Trumbull Campus.

Belonging Champions: Faculty Working to Transform the Student Experience Are Changing Themselves in the Process

Feb. 12, 2025

Kent State University Professor Mary Russell, Ph.D., recalls the very day she realized that her participation in the Belonging Champions program was transforming her and her classroom.

Kent State Offers Two Free Semiconductor Manufacturing Classes this Spring

Feb. 5, 2025

Are you looking to dip your toes in the expanding field of microchip manufacturing? Kent State University is offering two free micro-credential courses this spring to high school juniors and seniors, as well as industry professionals, fresh starters, educators, upskillers,…

Experiences Guide Rising Scholars Student

Jan. 28, 2025

By: Bill Burgess, for Regional CampusesFor Janiya Foster, one unexpected moment came along and reminded her why her work matters both inside and outside the classroom.