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Student Life

International Society of Typographic Designers Student Assessment scheme in the MAC Center Annex

Eight School of Visual Communication Design (VCD) students were awarded membership to the prestigious  (ISTD).

Twelve-year-old Jameson Payne attends a class at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ’s Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg.

In Ohio, most seventh graders are learning earth and space science, physical science and life science in a middle school classroom. But Jameson Payne is not like most kids his age. 

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ junior Josh Looser received the Red Cross Acts of Courage Award after successfully performing the Heimlich maneuver on a woman who was choking last year.

Joshua Looser, a junior entrepreneurship major, received the Red Cross Acts of Courage Award after successfully performing the Heimlich maneuver on a woman who was choking last year.

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ transgender student Emily Grubb (left) stands with Ken Ditlevson, director of the university’s LGBTQ Student Center. The LGBTQ Student Center is located on the lower level of the Kent Student Center.

For Emily Grubb, all it took was looking through a magazine to decide where to go to college. A copy of magazine led Grubb to °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ.

Pictured are hospitality management students from the Ashtabula and Kent campuses. They are (left to right) Jordan Manning, Meghan Simmons, Brooke Mihalick, Kaylee Madden, Brittany Hopkins, Katie Uterhark, Quintin Caponi, Chelsa Vogel and Brittany Pope.

The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ Club Managers Association of America student chapter received an award at the association's World Conference.

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ transgender student Emily Grubb (left) stands with Ken Ditlevson, director of the university’s LGBTQ Student Center. The LGBTQ Student Center is located on the lower level of the Kent Student Center.

For transgender students like Emily Grubb, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ is home.

Grubb and other students have found an inclusive, welcoming environment that offers resources for the transgender community, such as the student organization Trans*Fusion and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Student Center. Transgender students also receive support from °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ’s faculty, staff and administrators.

Case.MD helps make emergency medicine more convenient and safe.

Three °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. 

Together, with the help of LaunchNET °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ, the three created Case.MD. Ariella Yager, entrepreneur major in °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ’s College of Business Administration; Samuel Graska, cell and molecular biology major in °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ’s College of Arts and Sciences; and Justin Gleason, graduate student in °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design spent more than a year planning, inventing, designing and 3-D printing smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ transgender student Emily Grubb (left) stands with Ken Ditlevson, director of the university’s LGBTQ Student Center. The LGBTQ Student Center is located on the lower level of the Kent Student Center.

For transgender students like Emily Grubb, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ is home. Grubb and other students have found an inclusive, welcoming environment that offers resources for the transgender community.

Case.MD helps make emergency medicine more convenient and safe.

With the help of LaunchNET °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ, three students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.