Student Life
Students Adjust to Living on a Closed Campus
When °µÍø½ûÇø closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March, not all students living on the Kent Campus were able to leave.
BioBlack Team Brings Home Award From Biodesign Challenge
A team of °µÍø½ûÇø students took home the Outstanding Science Award from the Biodesign Challenge Summit 2020 held in June.
Flashes of Inspiration: Women's Golf Head Coach Offers Pep Talk
Today’s Flashes of Inspiration comes from Lisa Strom, °µÍø½ûÇø’s head women’s golf coach, who offers a pep talk to all in the university community struggling under the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Global Communication and Fast Fashion in the Classroom
Students in the class Communication in a Global Society worked in teams throughout the Spring 2020 semester to educate audiences about one specific aspect of globalization and ecology: fast fashion.
Finding Her ‘Fit’ at °µÍø½ûÇø to Make an Impact
Senior Sydney Bihn finds her true calling throughout her time at °µÍø½ûÇø and becomes the first female aerospace engineering graduate.
'100 Years of Aviation' Airport Centennial Celebration Art Contest
A century ago in 1920, The Ohio Flying School and Transport Company officially incorporated and opened Stow Field, now known as °µÍø½ûÇø Airport, Andrew Paton Field. To celebrate its centennial and recognize it as the oldest continuously operating airport in Ohio, Dave Poluga, airport manager, has launched the Aviation Art Contest “100 Years of Aviation.â€
Finding Fulfillment as a Commuter in the Honors College
°µÍø½ûÇø's Autism Research Ongoing on Various Fronts
April’s observance as Autism Awareness Month is coming to a close, but research into the whys and hows of autism is always ongoing at °µÍø½ûÇø.
Michael N. Lehman, Ph.D., director of the Brain Health Research Institute at °µÍø½ûÇø, said the university supports autism research that focuses on basic discoveries within the brain, as well as applied human research of students with autism, which makes °µÍø½ûÇø’s body of research unique and diverse.
°µÍø½ûÇø Students Create Documentaries Depicting 'College During Corona'
While locked down in their apartments or family homes, students in the °µÍø½ûÇø course Journalism and Documentary are telling a story that future generations and historians will one day discuss: What was college life like when the coronavirus pandemic changed the world?
CAVS Helps Student Parents With Toolkit
A basic tool kit includes things such as hammers, screwdrivers, nails and more. The Family Friendly Campus Toolkit offers so much more, and °µÍø½ûÇø's Center for Adults and Veterands Services took full advantage of it to help adult and parenting students. The Family Friendly Campus Toolkit, created by Endicott College, is a free-to-use tool for universities that assists and informs schools of ways to strategically support parenting students at their individual institutions. As of 2018, °µÍø½ûÇø was one of the first schools to implement this plan on its campus.