Summer Loan Request Form - 2026-2027 - (Dynamic Form)
Complete the Summer Direct Loan Request Form to indicate whether you would like to have a portion of your Federal Direct Loans offered in the summer 2026 term or not.
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The Ohio Association of Gerontology and Education (OAGE) officially recognized Donna Alexander, LNHA, MBA, CDP, as the 2026 Educator of the Year at Ohio State University’s Blackwell Inn and Conference Center. Alexander, an esteemed associate lecturer in the Long-Term Care Administration Program at Kent State University, received the prestigious award from OAGE President Daniel Van Dussen, Ph.D. This recognition highlights her exceptional contributions to aging-related teaching, practitioner training, and healthcare service improvement across Ohio.As a leader in the gerontology field, Ale...
Leslie Diuguid is a Brooklyn-based artist, printmaker and founder of Du-Good Press. Her practice combines technical precision with creative collaboration, and she is committed to expanding access to the arts through screenprinting, teaching and community-centered work.
Trudy Benson is a painter based in the Hudson Valley, New York. Her work examines painterly layering as image and process, with compositions that reference systems of organization such as grids, networks and sequences.
Ellie Krakow is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, drawing and photography. Her practice combines bodily representation with forms inspired by medical intervention and seeks to claim a place for the sick body within the lineage of figurative sculpture.
Ryan Gardner is a jewelry artist and metalsmith based in Ohio. Through Ryan Gardner Designs, he creates one-of-a-kind works that combine stone and metal, often beginning with rough stones that he cuts, polishes or carves by hand.
Jason Lee Starin is a ceramic artist whose work has been shown in group exhibitions across the United States. His practice uses ceramics, discarded objects and construction materials to explore relationships among craft, escapism, emotional awareness and the physical environments people inhabit.