Success Story
Kent Student Center Program Hosts Roaring ’20s-Themed Fashion Show
Kent Student Center Programming, part of the Center for Student Involvement, hosted the 13th annual Rock the Runway on March 4. The runway featured 21 collections by 24 designers, many from Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. The Kent Student Center Ballroom was de…
MAC Awards Top Honors to Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Gymnast
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ junior Rachel Stypinski won the all-around title with a 39.500 to lead the Golden Flashes at the 2017 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Gymnastics Championships held March 18 at the Stroh Center in Bowling Green, Ohio. Â鶹¾«Ñ¡posted a 194.850 team score to finish sixth. Styp…
Kent State’s Lurken, Starkey Receive MAC’s Biggest Postseason Awards
The Mid-American Conference (MAC) announced its women’s basketball postseason awards on March 7, with Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ senior guard Larissa Lurken being named Player of the Year and head coach Todd Starkey being named Coach of the Year. Jordan Korinek also was honored as she was named to the…
Kent State’s Lurken, Starkey Receive MAC’s Biggest Postseason Awards
The Mid-American Conference (MAC) announced its women’s basketball postseason awards on March 7, with Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ senior guard Larissa Lurken being named Player of the Year and head coach Todd Starkey being named Coach of the Year. Jordan Korinek also was honored as she was named to the…
Tri-Rec Offers Convenient Workout Location for Students in Residence Halls
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s Recreational Services and University Housing (formerly Residence Services) departments have collaborated to open a new fitness facility in the Tri-Towers Rotunda, exclusively for on-campus residents. The facility opened this spring semester.The 7,000-square-foot Tri-Rec inclu…
University Is Rooted in Its Commitment to Tree Care
Sixty-eight years ago, the Kent City Council and mayor dubbed Kent, Ohio, the state’s Tree City. This year marks the ninth year Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ is being recognized by the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus USA program. Created in 2008, the Tree Campus USA program honors colleges and univers…
59 Student-Athletes Achieved Perfect GPAs in Fall and Spring 2016
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics held its third annual 4.0 GPA Student-Athlete Breakfast on Feb. 2 in the Kent Student Center Ballroom Balcony. “We are tremendously proud of and inspired by the success of our student-athletes who demonstrate time and time again that…
New Podiatric Product Developed by Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Students and Professor Can Be Used by People With Diabetes and Athletes
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ students Nilin Rao, Ph.D., and Craig Verdin, and Exercise Science and Physiology Professor Ellen Glickman, Ph.D., are the co-founders of TheraPod Medical LLC, a wound-care company that is looking to transform the field of podiatric medicine. Rao, a fourth-year podiatric stud…
More Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Buildings Receive LEED Certification
Several new and renovated Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ buildings received Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) recognition in 2016, bringing to 11 the total number of certified buildings on Kent State’s campuses. LEED is a rating system that comes from the U.S. Green Building Council. There …
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Epidemiologist Studies Best Practices for Helping Cardiac and Respiratory Patients Heal
Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ scholar Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., is all heart, an academic who lives and breathes research, almost literally. Zullo, an associate professor of epidemiology in Kent State’s College of Public Health, has spent a significant portion of her professional and academic career studying th…
