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![A bottle of Kent State Ashtabula wine is pulled off the bottling line](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/ksua_wine_wviz_tv_segment.jpg?VersionId=mJwZ39AVyVzOJHoAJq29T2wY_amznAwf)
For some college students, the study of alcohol is done recreationally, after classes, and they certainly don’t get any credit hours from it.
But for students in Kent State Ashtabula’s wine degrees, the study of alcohol is serious business.
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![Kent State Ashtabula student Valerie Smith (right) was named to The Sage Project Class of 2019](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/ksua_smith_stocker_hero_image.jpg?VersionId=lwVBPIecDtKS3MvBIMjOj.6f8Dm.xhmE)
Kent State University at Ashtabula sophomore and Ashtabula native Valerie Smith is one of nine students throughout the Kent State system named to The Sage Project Class of 2019. She was honored at a luncheon and ceremony on the Kent campus Thursday, March 21, 2019.
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![Ashtabula faculty member Carolyn Carvalho](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/ksua_carlcalho_hero_image.jpg?VersionId=623d_TrTkSNEqGWj5WPwMoEZWw7mybRs)
“She doesn't just want us to succeed, but to shine. Carolyn really believes each student has a rock star inside them and is determined to bring it out.”- Kathryn Osborne
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![Ashtabula senior director of nursing and allied health Julie Senita](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/ksua_senita_senior_director_hero_image.jpg?VersionId=sWZ1o1JYou1hvo4Kwwf1Po9vMYMha5Eu)
Kent State University at Ashtabula Dean and Chief Administrative Officer Susan J. Stocker, Ph.D., recently named longtime nursing faculty member Julie Senita, Ph.D., as the campus’s Senior Program Director for Nursing and Allied Health. Senita had been serving as the…
The Sociology Club at Kent State University at Ashtabula, in conjunction with the Sociology Department and Kent State Ashtabula Library, will host a screening and discussion of “RBG”, the 2018 documentary focusing on the life and career of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader…
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![Ashtabula Campus Honors Memory of Rand Aldulaimi With Scholarship](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/rand%20memorial%20hero%20image.jpg?VersionId=Gs1RDSeOVlLVZ7d2LaqFcBagAe_wF5mI)
Kent State University at Ashtabula recently announced the establishment of a scholarship in memory of student Rand Aldulaimi. Aldulaimi was a Dean’s List student at Kent State Ashtabula who was killed on July 24, 2018.
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![Ashtabula campus IT students work in a server room](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/IMG_8501.jpg?VersionId=JiPi.IW5qXBulg2h8sVyZVP3OnE82ekh)
Information Technology is one of the top three job markets in need of qualified professionals in Northeast Ohio (NEO), and Kent State Ashtabula can fill that void. Kent State Ashtabula has the total IT factor by offering students a comprehensive four-year degree program.…
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![Merle McCurdy (center) pictured with Civil Right leaders Charles Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/mccurdy_abernathy_king.jpg?VersionId=ZwdbfbdT.OcPieS9SbTrpkm3rnUBiDgX)
The Kent State University at Ashtabula Sociology Club will host “Local Legends: The Life and Legacy of Merle M. McCurdy” Tuesday, Feb. 12, beginning at 6 p.m. in the Huggins Lecture Hall (H109) in Robert S. Morrison Hall.
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![Kent State Ashtabula Wines is releasing its new wine, 17° (Seventeen Degrees), through its partnership with Laurello Vineyards. Kent State Ashtabula Wines is releasing its new wine, 17° (Seventeen Degrees), through its partnership with Laurello Vineyards.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/ksua_ice_wine_hero_image.jpg?VersionId=cMnQjus.lhpemIV.UFoSuxRNLmlswGz8)
Record low temperatures aren’t the only thing that has come to the region, as Kent State Ashtabula Wines is releasing its new wine, 17° (Seventeen Degrees), through its partnership with Laurello Vineyards. The new wine, an ice wine, joins the award-winning vintages in the label’…
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![Ashtabula campus AITP students group photo from Dec 2018](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/ksua_aitp_students_dec2018_web.jpg?VersionId=vDnqWHyztXS1KhR.VK3Z6h0E0UHAsEr0)
For the second time in five years, the Association for Information Technology Professionals (AITP) student group at Kent State Ashtabula has been recognized by the national professional organization as its “Outstanding Student Chapter of the Year.” The award was presented…