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![Kent State 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.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/EmilyKen.jpg?VersionId=Z7n0kQnFl1oe7dT33m5lTCIzr6jCej9I)
For transgender students like Emily Grubb, Kent State is home. Grubb and other students have found an inclusive, welcoming environment that offers resources for the transgender community.
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![Kent State student-athletes with a 4.0 GPA celebrate their academic achievement with Kent State President Beverly Warren (front row, ninth from left) at a breakfast held in the Kent Student Center Ballroom Balcony.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/DSC_0364.jpg?VersionId=YioJbSu9yBIFmejXTqU.chH5wlu_tcjt)
Kent State University’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics held its third annual 4.0 GPA Student-Athlete Breakfast on Feb. 2 in the Kent Student Center Ballroom Balcony.
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![Kent State University students Nilin Rao (left) and Craig Verdin (right), and Exercise Science and Physiology Professor Ellen Glickman, Ph.D. (center), have invented an insole to help people with ulcerations on their feet.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/IMG_6336.jpg?VersionId=7VnSc6UQIJPF94qxx5PsoP2v_sQkKRwG)
Kent State University students Nilin Rao, Ph.D., and Craig Verdin, and Exercise Science and Physiology Professor Ellen Glickman, Ph.D., are the co-founders of TheraPod Medical LLC, a wound-care company that is looking to transform the field of podiatric medicine.
May 4, 1970, was a watershed moment for the country and especially the Kent State University family. We lost four students that day while nine others were wounded and countless others were changed forever.
This abhorrent post is in poor taste and trivializes a loss of…
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Rita McGrath, Ph.D., professor at Columbia Business School, will be the keynote speaker for the 2017 Spirit of Women in Business Conference on March 9, Kent State University’s College of Business Administration has announced.
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![Case.MD helps make emergency medicine more convenient and safe. Case.MD helps make emergency medicine more convenient and safe.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/casemd1-rev.jpg?VersionId=8UzyviesgmeEZY86c1HQi2_N78cjAbc_)
With the help of LaunchNET Kent State, three students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.
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Several new and renovated Kent State University buildings received Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) recognition in 2016, bringing to 11 the total number of certified buildings on Kent State’s campuses. LEED is a rating system that comes from the U.S. Green…
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![Kent State’s Vice President for Information Services Ed Mahon accepts the Unity Award for Diversity on behalf of the division from Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Alfreda Brown.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/02.01.17%20Photo%20of%20Unity%20Award%20for%20Diversity%20winner%20-%20Division%20of%20Information%20Services.jpg?VersionId=IQFtMXu3dWI5DmhmksroCpx4KIC97uHT)
Division of Information Services and Communication Studies Faculty Member Honored
Kent State University’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion presented awards for outstanding contributions toward diversity at the university’s 15th Annual Martin Luther King Jr.…
Dear Members of the Kent State University Community:
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![Melissa Zullo (left), associate professor of epidemiology in Kent State’s College of Public Health, works with a Ph.D. student.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/SOMZullo_edit.jpg?VersionId=St7KQejlZ4ZnJMiVMG1.KvPKsjcO5ul1)
Kent State University scholar Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., is all heart, an academic who lives and breathes research, almost literally. Zullo, an associate professor of epidemiology in Kent State’s College of Public Health, has spent a significant portion of her professional and…