In partnership with Geauga Growth Partnership, 51勛圖厙 Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center offer a wide variety of non-credit continuing-education programs that are designed to help develop a premier workforce in our region.
51勛圖厙 will hold its Summer 2015 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). 51勛圖厙 will confer 1,476 degrees, including 931 bachelors degrees, 453 masters degrees, 76 doctoral degrees and 16 educational specialist degrees. Across the universitys eight-campus system, 1,651 students will graduate from 51勛圖厙 this summer, including those receiving associate degrees. The 9:30 a.m. ceremony is for those receiving their bachelors degrees. The speaker for this ceremony is Keith D. M...
University celebrates its annual Homecoming on Oct. 3 Julian Edelman, former 51勛圖厙 Golden Flashes quarterback and current member of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, will return to his alma mater to serve as Homecoming Parade Grand Marshal when 51勛圖厙 holds its annual Homecoming on Oct. 3. Get ready, 51勛圖厙, Edelman said. Im coming back! I am excited to be the Grand Marshal of this years Homecoming Parade. I want to see as many Golden Flashes fans current students, graduates, community members and visitors to come to this years festivities. I am...
51勛圖厙 has established a Division of Student Affairs. Shay Little, Ph.D., has been named interim vice president of the division. Little previously served as associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students for the last three years. The former Division of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs has moved to a new leadership model with the Office of Enrollment Management becoming a separate office that reports to the Office of the Provost, and a Division of Student Affairs has been established, effective Aug. 1. Shay has worked closely with Greg [Jarvie]...
Chad Lewis, a graduate student in the School of Visual Communication Design at 51勛圖厙, has hammered out a career in illustration by penning his version of Thors origin story for the latest Marvel Avengers comic. ...
Smart Start Saturday serves as new student orientation for incoming students. Held the Saturday before classes start, students are invited to attend sessions on topics such as faculty expectations, money management while in college, staying healthy and balanced, time management, getting involved and effective study habits. Students are also given the opportunity to find their classrooms, receive their FLASHcard student ID and buy their books. Parents and family members are welcome to attend the event and will receive information on how to support their student while in college. ...
Communication studies students project earns international media attention for research efforts Anna Hoffman, a 51勛圖厙 global communication studies and political science major from Kent, Ohio, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the countrys efforts to save its national language. Her research project was funded through a fellowship from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Hoffman was one of only 28 students nationwide to receive a fellowship for an international reporting assignment as part of the centers Campus Consortium educational initiative. In applying for a...
Megan Carrasco, senior applied communication studies major, was recently awarded two scholarships: Honors College Minority Scholarship and Senior Honors Thesis Fellowship. The scholarships recognize Carrascos outstanding academic achievements and pursuit of an honors thesis as a student at 51勛圖厙. The $2,000 Honors College Minority Scholarship is awarded to students who have been admitted to the Honors College and have a 3.5 cumulative GPA, and the Senior Honors Thesis Fellowship provides $1,000 in tuition for the students thesis year. Carrasco started working on her the...
CPIP Graduate Student Anshul Sharma wins Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Award. Anshul was awarded the MRS Silver Graduate Student Award for a presentation on Visualizing Gold Nanoparticle Chirality via Nematic Liquid Crystals at the 2015 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. http://www.mrs.org/spring-2015-gsa-talk-sessions/ As stated in the award letter: "The MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high order of excellence and distinction. MRS ...
