By Tina Smith, for Kent State Regional CampusesLeslie Heaphy, Ph.D., usually teaches history in her classroom at Kent State University at Stark. Now, this professor is helping to rewrite it at the home of Major League Baseball in Cooperstown, New York.As a member of the Negro Leagues Statistical Review Committee, she helped spearhead a movement that led to MLB’s recent decision to incorporate Negro League statistics into baseball’s official historical record. This means that more than 2,300 players from seven different Negro Leagues, active from 1920 to 1948, are now elevated to major league p...

We sat down with Judy Hackett ’82 and discussed professional life, her college experience, and passions of today. Here’s what she had to say.What drew you to major in Journalism at Kent State?In middle school I wrote a paper on the Kent State May 4th events.  I visited the campus and fell in love.  I had an interest in writing and knew I wanted to have a career in the field. I was the first in my family to attend college, and I knew the Journalism school had a good reputation.  It was also just far enough from home that I could gain my independence but be close enough to come ho...

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Crafting stunning visual designs to draw in and set the scene for listeners, VCD alum Ariel VanNatter ‘15 is the face behind a number of audiobook cover designs for Spotify.VanNatter freelances for a range of clients but was approached by Spotify to design cover art for historical romance books and one of her favorite authors, Jane Austen. After her first design, Spotify was impressed and wanted her to create more.“Jane Austen is my favorite author and that was the first one I got to do because of my passion behind it,” VanNatter said.  Each audiobook cover design is different but fo...

“We call him the synthesizer,” said Jill Woods, managing principle and designer at NAC Architecture in Columbus, Ohio.Woods was speaking about Hamid Estejab, M.S. ’23, M.H.D. ’23, who is rounding out his first year as design and analytics synthesizer for NAC, after graduating from Kent State University in 2023 with dual master’s degrees in healthcare design and emerging media and technology. It was Estejab’s unique set of skills and the hands-on experiences he gained during his time at Kent State that captured NAC’s attention. “When we met with him, just in interviewing [him] he talk...