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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì student Ashley Flowers poses under a bridge in downtown Kent with a bag full of items she hands out to the homeless in downtown Cleveland.

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Student Creates Care Packages for the Homeless

When the concept of homelessness comes to mind, people tend to focus efforts on food donations, but Ashley Flowers, a junior majoring in psychology and criminology and justice studies at ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University, wants to remind people that clothing and toiletries also are essential items. A native …

Tags: Student Success , Success Story , Division of Student Life , Community & Society

Kent Campus

Shanice Cheatham worked with ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s College of Public Health and LaunchNET ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì to help her company, Endemic Solutions, develop its Endemic Filtration Portable Handwashing System.

Life-Changing Event Inspires ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Entrepreneur to Help Prevent Infectious Diseases

In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, who received her bachelor’s degree from ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University in 2013 and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental health sciences at ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì, was told that her father had a 10 percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylo…

Tags: College of Public Health , LaunchNet ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì , Student Success Story , Success Story , Community & Society , Health

Kent Campus

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University President Beverly Warren, pictured here with ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì students, has personally matched $25,000 for donations made to ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì on Giving Tuesday.

A Very Special Thank You to the ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Community for Its Generosity on Giving Tuesday

The ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University community gave generously on Giving Tuesday this Dec. 1, far exceeding expectations. As promised, President Beverly Warren personally matched $25,000 in a gift to the Distinctive ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Fund, a fund that will support the university’s five priorities for a distinctive Ke…

Tags: Office of the President , Division of Institutional Advancement , Success Story , Community & Society

Kent Campus

Kent Campus Fall

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Community Members Share What They Are Thankful for This Year

Happy Thanksgiving! Watch this video to find out what members of the ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University community, including President Beverly Warren, are thankful for this year.  

Tags: Office of the President , Success Story , Community & Society

Kent Campus

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì 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.

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Named to 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University has been named to the 2014 President’s 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

Kent Campus

REMINDER: ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Invites Community to Final Public Meeting for Airport Master Plan

The final public meeting for the ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University Airport Master Plan has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, from 6-8 p.m. at the Stow-Munroe Falls High School Auditorium, located at 3227 Graham Road in Stow, Ohio. The first public meeting was held in 2013 to introduce the project to the comm…

Tags: College of Applied Engineering Sustainability and Technology , Aeronautics , Division of Finance and Administration , ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University Airport , Community & Society

Kent Campus

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Researchers Use LEGO Camps to Build Relationships With the Community

A special classroom at ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University turned into a LEGO® city filled with roaring lions, speeding cars and spinning tops. The moving creations are part of a unique summer camp, LEGO WeDoâ„¢ Robotics, put on by the Research Center for Educational Technology in the College of Education, Healt…

Tags: College of Education, Health and Human Services , Community & Society

Kent Campus

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Named to 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University has been named to the 2014 President’s 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 Se…

Tags: Office of Experiential Education and Civic Engagement , Center of Nutrition Outreach , School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies , Awards and Honors , Community & Society

Kent Campus

Nick Gattozzi Named ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s New Executive Director of Government and Community Relations

Greater Cleveland Partnership vice president to lead university’s government outreach ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University President Beverly Warren has selected Nick Gattozzi as the executive director of government and community relations. Gattozzi comes to ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì from the Greater Cleveland Partnership where …

Tags: Government Relations , Community & Society

Kent Campus

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Invites Community to Final Public Meeting for Airport Master Plan

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Invites Community to Final Public Meeting for Airport Master Plan The final public meeting for the ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University Airport Master Plan has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, from 6-8 p.m. at the Stow-Munroe Falls High School Auditorium, located at 3227 Graham Road in Stow, Ohio…

Tags: College of Technology , Community & Society

Kent Campus