Pursue Your Purpose
Our Purpose? You.
Earth Day Celebration on April 28
Kent State University at Stark commemorates Earth Day 2019 with a free, family friendly celebration.
Nearly two dozen new exhibitors highlight this year’s event, including an Akron Zoo animal presentation, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, Stark County Beekeepers Association and Ernie’s Bike Shop, among many others.
Creating Dreamers and Doers: Jasmine Long and Sharon Ware
Dynamic duo.
Jasmine Long and Sharon Ware grew up in different neighborhoods, but their connection transcends residential blocks. Broken barriers now build the dreams to change their communities for the better.
Professor Carrie Schweitzer to Lead New Geology Degree Program
Professor Carrie Schweitzer has discovered hundreds of new species. Now, this research standout is leading students in a new degree program.
Carrie Schweitzer has always been interested in the things of Earth. The stuff that lies just below the surface of land and sea.
Creating Dreamers and Doers: Ariel Deck
Guided by purpose.
Schooldays end with a “welcome home” at Tiqvah Hands of Hope, an after-school mentoring program for students who live in the city of Canton.
A simple phrase graces the threshold of the doors they enter every day:
“You can change the world.”
Creating Dreamers and Doers: Theno 'Kristo' Pantelides
Worth it.
Theno “Kristo” Pantelides grew up in the hilly city of San Francisco, surrounded by ocean. A coastline not unlike the home of his father, where houses dot the shores of thousands of islands in a country influential in ancient times.
Pantelides’ first words were Greek and he looked to his papáki̱s, Konstantine, for guidance at an early age.