Community Impact
Before classes began for Fall Semester 2024, the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer Plus (LGBTQ+) Center welcomed the university's LGBTQ+ community back to campus with a Fall Kickoff event.
A long-term study of butterfly populations in Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley National Park is shedding light on ecological changes and the impacts of human activities on local ecosystems. The study, which has been ongoing since the 1990s, represents one of the longest-running volunteer-driven insect surveys in North America. Experts from °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ’s Department of Biological Sciences are working to interpret 20-plus years’ worth of data and convey what it means for environmental conservation.
The celebration, Sept. 19-21, will be packed with panel discussions, workshops and poetry readings, culminating in a gala dinner on Sept. 21.
For the past month, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ has hosted 37 international graduate students as part of the Fulbright Pre-Academic Program, a monthlong immersion in American higher education and culture. The group, from 26 countries, arrived on the Kent Campus on July 21 and was scheduled to depart on Aug. 17 to begin their graduate programs at universities throughout the country.
This summer, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ's College of Nursing welcomed high school students participating in the University Hospitals Future Nurse Academy program to campus for a tour and hands-on practice in our simulation labs.
The white coat at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ’s College of Podiatric Medicine’s White Coat Ceremony is presented as a reminder of the professionalism required by students, in their studies at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ and later as they become podiatric physicians.
When U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ this summer, he and U.S. Representative (and °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ alumna) Emilia Sykes toured the College of Aeronautics and Engineering and the May 4 Visitors Center.
Each August, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ welcomes alumni and their canine companions to campus for one of the most anticipated events of the year, the "Dog Days of Summer."
After spending time on an athletics service trip to Rwanda in January, recent °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ graduate and women’s soccer team member Callie Jean Cunningham felt compelled to act.
The Earth Day celebration at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ at Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center included a guided, woodland hike around the campus.