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���������������� is receiving national recognition for its mission to support a climate that welcomes and supports diversity in all of its forms. The Society for Diversity is presenting the university with the distinctive Innovation + Inclusion Leadership Award.   For the past eight years, the Society for Diversity has recognized the work of outstanding organizations and individuals who have demonstrated excellence in employment equity and workplace inclusion. This year, the Society for Diversity added “innovation” to its criteria to represent how collaboration, new strategies&nbs...

Lance Peterson was selected as Clinical Instructor of the Year by students and staff of the physical therapist assistant program at ���������������� East Liverpool. He is a physical therapist and manager at Novacare Rehab in East Palestine. As a clinical instructor, Peterson works with PTA students who are placed in the facility as part of their educational experience and training. He has served as a ���������������� East Liverpool clinical instructor for more than 20 years. “Mr. Peterson has made a huge impact on many of our students over the years,” noted Kathryn Sutton, academic advisor and clinical ...

Kent, OH – Porthouse Theatre, ����������������'s summer professional theatre, was awarded a $23,615 sustainability grant by the Ohio Arts Council during the body's summer board meeting on July 19. The grant helps Porthouse Theatre provide high quality theatre and arts education to the Northeast Ohio community. Specifically, the grant allows Porthouse to continue offering its academies for high school, college, and international students as well as community nights that provide free tickets to patrons that otherwise would not be able to attend the theatre. Accordi...

���������������� student and Trumbull County native Emelia Sherin, ’20, is calling attention to Ohio’s opioid epidemic in a new way. The public relations major – formerly a performer for Disney Cruise Line – combined her talents in the performing arts, writing and advocacy, to write the play “(In)Dependent: The Heroin Project.” “(In)Dependent” is being produced by the Akron Civic Theatre as part of the Millennial Theatre Project, and will be performed Aug. 4 and 5, 2017. “I started writing the play because the media was bothering me so much; it was eating at me,” Sherin said. “It was s...

Matthew Minichillo would run to the ends of the earth for his daughter Hannah, who is battling multiple sclerosis. And he almost did. Minichillo completed more than seven marathons in seven days, running from Ft. Wayne, Indiana, passing through Kent, Ohio on his way to Hudson with the goal of showing his support and helping to raise money for a cure. Minichillo, assistant dean for Academic and Student Services in ����������������’s College of the Arts and Sciences, ran a portion of the MS Run the US Relay that started in California and ended in New York. “As a parent, you want to provid...

Experience the Kent Campus in 360°. You can click and drag the screen to look around, or you can move your smartphone around (left, right, up and down) or use your smartphone with a VR (virtual reality) headset.     ...

���������������� Assistant Professor Jennifer Mapes, Ph.D., was honored with the Volunteer of the Year award by Main Street Kent during the organization’s annual awards celebration. Main Street Kent is a nonprofit organization focused on the revitalization of downtown Kent and is an affiliate of the national Main Street program and the Heritage Ohio program. Mapes, a faculty member in ����������������’s Department of Geography and a member of Main Street Kent’s design committee, received the award for creating kiosk and online maps in downtown Kent. “I was really flattered to be reco...

Lucas Engelhardt, Ph.D., associate professor in ���������������� at Stark’s Department of Economics, is a firm believer in pursing innovation and investing in capital, when it comes to driving economic growth in cities. HonestlyNow Banking consulted Englehardt, and more than a dozen esteemed professors in the fields of finance and economics, to gather their thoughts on recessions. Together, the analysts studied 15,000 unique data points to reveal the best and worst recovered cities from 2008's Great Recession. Read HonestlyNow Banking’s best and worst recovered cities, and Engelhardt’s ...

What started three years ago with humorous banter between two ���������������� Students on a dating site has turned into a dreamy first date. And the world is watching. Michelle Arendas and Josh Avsec matched on Tinder back in 2014, but their responses to one another were not exactly instant. Sometimes it would take them many months and a lot of wit to return a message.   Their jokes caught the attention of the world and Tinder, which is sending the two students to Maui, Hawaii for their first date. News of the date has gone viral in the media, as people around the world wis...