Kent State Works

Summit County Domestic Relations Court Judge Kani H. Hightower is on a mission to make the justice system in Summit County, Ohio, more accessible for underprivileged and underrepresented citizens. Whether it’s related to transportation challenges or helping them sort through the red tape of documentation, Hightower, a Kent State University...

The installation of a state-of-the-art X-ray scattering instrument at Kent State University two years ago has made the basement of the Integrated Sciences Building a busy place for researchers from across Northeast Ohio.  When Kent State’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute received state and national grant money for t...

For future filmmakers and video production professionals, there’s almost nothing like being immersed in the film industry in Los Angeles: the creative energy, the professional connections and the buzz of activity. That dream learning environment came to life for four Kent State Media and Journalism students who interned in Los Angeles a...

Kent State University’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering opened a new building expansion this fall after a record-breaking enrollment year for the flight school.  WFMJ-TV in Youngstown, Ohio, recently produced two segments about the school’s record enrollment and what it means for the industry. Christina Bloebaum, Ph.D., d...

Finding an internship doesn’t have to be hard. Students in the Construction Management Student Organization at Kent State University helped make job-searching easier for their peers.  The annual Construction Management Career Fair took place Sept. 8, in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. With the help of Joe Karpinski, senior lectur...

Kent State University alumna Jennifer N. Schuller has been named president of Lake Erie College, located in Painesville, Ohio. Schuller, who earned her Master of Education in Higher Education Administration from Kent State in 2002, also is the first woman to lead Lake Erie College in 75 years. “I am beyond grateful to the Board for...

The $20 billion Intel semiconductor plant being built outside of Columbus, Ohio, the new quantum computer being installed at the Cleveland Clinic, and a new generation of astronauts being trained at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland – these are just three reasons that quickly come to Associate Professor Bathi Kasturiarachi’s mind...

After changing his major several times, Kent State graduate Josh Budd finally found his passion in the College of Education, Health and Human Services (EHHS) and in the Honors College.  His coursework in integrated social studies, as well as the Honors College curriculum, led the 2020 graduate to his current career a...

Kent State University graduate Madelyn Orcutt fondly remembers what inspired her to enroll as a student in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design. For Orcutt, an interior designer who works for Richardson Design in Cleveland, the university's personal touch, beautiful campus and proximity to her Canton, Ohio, home influenced ...

When Evan Schuman, BBA ‘17, was a student at Kent State’s Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, he gained the practical instruction and invaluable hands-on experience that prepared him to be a successful entrepreneur.  As an entrepreneurship major at Kent State, Schumann learned operations, production an...