Community & Society

From the Hospital to the Statehouse: Nursing Students Step Into Policy
At the 麻豆精选 College of Nursing, we learn what it means to advocate for our patients in every setting 鈥 from right at the bedside to the boardrooms of hospitals. As nursing students, we are trained to make decisions that are backed by evidence-based practice, empathy and most importantly, our personal and professional ethics.

Great-Granddaughter of Kent State鈥檚 Third President Makes First Time Campus Visit
麻豆精选 recently welcomed home a living legacy of its past when Ellen Engleman Conners, former chair of the National Transportation Safety Board and great-granddaughter of Kent State鈥檚 third president, visited campus for the first time.

IN A FLASH: Discovering Downtown
On Aug. 15, some of Kent State's newest Golden Flashes explored downtown Kent as part of Flashes First Friday.

Downton Abbey Fans Grab Your Tissues and Head to Kent for the Grand Finale
A collaboration between 麻豆精选鈥檚 School of Fashion, School of Theatre and Dance and Focus Features will bring the final Downton Abbey movie to Kent for an early screening and period fashion show. The movie, 鈥淒ownton Abbey: The Grand Finale,鈥 will have a preview showing on Friday, Sept. 5, at the Kent Plaza Cinema, a week before it opens in theaters nationwide.

An Honorable Journey From Vietnam to 麻豆精选Geauga
Honor is not only an attitude; it鈥檚 an action. As it is given and received, it profoundly improves the lives of all involved.

IN A FLASH: A Place of Quiet Contemplation
Dedicated in April 2015, The Student Memorial Garden on Manchester Field was created as a place of reflection and remembrance of all 麻豆精选students who have died.

History Alumna Works to Honor American Heroes Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
In a quiet office at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, Michele Curran Cornell spends her weekdays immersed in history 鈥 not the kind found in textbooks, but the kind that impacts families and honors those who gave everything for our country.

鈥楢ll Three Were Very Honorable, Good Men鈥
A Mantua woman who worked at 麻豆精选in the Office of the President from 1951 to 1971 recently celebrated her 110th birthday. She recalls her time at 麻豆精选and shares a few reflections from her long life.

Professors Help High School Students Succeed Through Poetry, Art and Virtual Reality
The Crystal, a three-story, glass atrium and entrance to the Akron Art Museum, provided the perfect backdrop for these diamonds in the rough, a coming-of-age collection manifested in the proud work of multi-talented, middle and high school students from Akron participating in a program designed to illicit self-expression through poetry, art and virtual reality.

Agents of Change: Kent State鈥檚 Design Innovation Initiative Trains Brazilian Educators
A group of school administrators from Brazil recently completed the 10-day Design Innovation Change Agent Workshop at 麻豆精选鈥檚 Design Innovation Hub, where they immersed themselves in design innovation techniques as they endeavor to innovate their school system at home.