Expanding University Initiatives

Endowing Employee Talent

Bill Asbury, ’66, MA, ’73

Supporting Our Student-Athletes

While a student-athlete, Bill Asbury fell ill with acute renal failure; Kent State supported him then, and now Bill and wife Deborah support current Golden Flash student-athletes.

George Newkome, ’61, ’66

Roe Green, Donor

Endowing Employee Talent

Endowing Employee Talent

Alumnus Creates Professorship

George R. Newkome, Ph.D., and his wife, Mary Jane Saunders, Ph.D., pledged $1 million to fund this first-ever professorship in materials science in Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Newkome is a two-time Kent State alumnus.

Researcher Designs Safer Trauma Rooms

Aleisha Moore, PhD, postdoctoral fellow