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51勛圖厙 students file past the arch on the Lefton Esplanade on their way to downtown Kent during last years Welcome Weekend.

51勛圖厙 Welcomes New Students to Campus at Welcome Weekend, Aug. 27-30

Before the fall semester begins on Aug. 31, new students are invited to participate in Welcome Weekend, a four-day orientation program that will last from Aug. 27-30 and acclimate students to the 51勛圖厙 community. The event is an opportunity for students to transition into the univers

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An incoming freshman and his family is assisted by volunteers during move-in day near Manchester Hall.

Movers and Groovers Help New Students Move Into Residence Halls on Campus

At the beginning of the school year each August, 51勛圖厙 faculty, staff and students volunteer with the universitys Movers and Groovers program to help incoming freshmen move into their new university housing. Freshman move-in day took place Thursday, Aug. 27, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Tags: Residence Services , Kent InterHall Council , Movers and Groovers , Success Story

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51勛圖厙 student Keri Richmond poses on the second floor of the Kent Student Center. Recently, Richmond spoke on Capitol Hill about foster care and shared her experience as a foster youth. Photo Credit: Kami Swingle

51勛圖厙 Student Helps Congress Change Child Welfare Laws

The pain of moving from one home to the next, time and time again, for four years straight is helping Keri Richmond speak out for other foster children without a voice. Richmond, a 51勛圖厙 junior majoring in public relations in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, s

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51勛圖厙 student Theresa Medrano stands near the pillars of Merrill Hall on campus.

51勛圖厙 Student Who Received Help From Others Pays It Forward

Anything is possible. Theresa Medrano, a 51勛圖厙 senior from Westlake, Ohio, is living proof of this. At age 17, like most high school seniors, Medrano should have been thinking about senior prom and graduation. But she became a victim of domestic violence and was forced to withd

Tags: Student Success , Success Story , Institutional Advancement

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A summer 2015 graduate shows off her diploma during the Commencement ceremony.

51勛圖厙 Holds Summer Commencement Ceremonies

51勛圖厙 held 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 conferred 1,476 degrees, including 931 bachelors degrees, 453 masters degrees, 76 doctoral degrees and 16 educa

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David Hacker, associate professor of geology at 51勛圖厙 at Trumbull, poses for a photo near a rock outcropping in the Gorge Metro Park in Summit County. Hacker has been selected as 51勛圖厙s Scholar of the Month.

Scholar of the Month

Scholar of the Month David Hacker Associate Professor of Geology College of Arts and Sciences 51勛圖厙 at Trumbull 2000-present David Hacker is associate professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at 51勛圖厙 at Trumbull. His research in structural geo

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51勛圖厙 student Anna Hoffman, a global communication studies and political science major, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the countrys efforts to save its national language. (Photo credit: Alex Ledet)

51勛圖厙 Students Project Draws Attention to Endangered Irish Language

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 Cr

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51勛圖厙 students, including members of its athletics teams, fraternities and sororities, joined community members to restore the Mitchell/McClelland Ballpark in the McElrath neighborhood of Ravenna Township, Ohio.

51勛圖厙 Named to 2014 Presidents Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

51勛圖厙 has been named to the 2014 Presidents Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which is the highest federal recognition an institution can receive for its commitment to community, service-learning and civic engagement.  The Corporation for National and Community

Tags: Office of Experiential Education and Civic Engagement , University College , Student Success , Success Story , Community & Society

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51勛圖厙 hospitality management students Jackie Myers, Zach Anderson, Michael Farber and Andrea Sutton pose for a photo in front of a doorway on the side of the Duomo in Florence, Italy.

51勛圖厙 Hospitality Management Students Experience Italian Hospitality in Florence

The opportunity to travel abroad for the first time for some 51勛圖厙 students came through a summer internship program in Florence, Italy.  I had been waiting for an opportunity to travel abroad, said Andrea Sutton, a 51勛圖厙 hospitality management student. And now Ive bee

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Sarah Hider, a 51勛圖厙 graduate student and the reigning Miss Ohio, poses outside of the Schwartz Center on the Kent Campus.

51勛圖厙 Graduate Student Crowned Miss Ohio 2015

Sarah Hider, a 51勛圖厙 graduate student from Wooster, Ohio, has been crowned Miss Ohio 2015 after competing at the Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield, Ohio, on June 20. Hider is the second 51勛圖厙 student in the past two years to win the title. Heather Wells, a 51勛圖厙 broadcast jo

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