Greetings from Columbiana County! The Kent State East Liverpool and Kent State Salem campuses are busy places these days: we just came back from our fall break; midterm exams are finished; and students are already registering for spring semester classes. Additionally, our recruiting season is in full swing with campus representatives visiting high schools and college fairs all across the region. They are waving the Kent State flag and doing a great job of promoting our campuses. I am proud of the ongoing efforts of our dedicated staff and faculty who support our students in multiple w...

Heading into the 2023-2024 academic year, all involved with the Rising Scholars program on the Kent State Regional Campuses had their sights set on high-impact and high-energy activities for scholars in every grade. The Rising Scholars Program, one on each Kent State campus, combines mentoring with assistance from local communities and businesses to provide support for young adults beginning in seventh grade. The program allows them to maximize their all-important high school years and focus on making well-informed career choices after graduation. “Rising Scholars is a great program for ...

Bruna Mussoi School of Health Sciences   Dr. Mussoi is an Assistant Professor in the Speech Pathology and Audiology program. Her research focuses on the neural, perceptual and cognitive mechanisms underlying age-related changes in speech in noise understanding. She is also interested in how those factors impact speech understanding with cochlear implants (surgically implanted neural devices to improve hearing). Since establishing her Hearing and Aging Lab at Kent State University, Dr. Mussoi established internal and external collaborations with researchers at the Cleveland Cl...

Entrepreneurs who have a passion to start their own businesses while they are students are in a league all their own. Kent State University has a number of students in that league. Many of them. Fortunately for them, Kent State also has resources at the university and college levels to help support these young entrepreneurs from concept to launch.  Kent State Today reached out to four business owners who started their companies while they were students to learn what inspired them to begin and what motivates them to keep going.  GenZbuzz - Terrelle Tettey Terrelle Tettey, a s...

Kent, OH– Kent State Opera Theatre kicks off their Fall production with “Not/Ordinary: Scenes of Life and Love” November 17-19. Experience a night out at the opera with Kent State Opera Theatre! This year’s Fall production, “Not/Ordinary: Scenes of Life and Love,” explores the concept of love and its various forms– passion, obsession, longing and even suffering. “The primary goal of the Kent State Opera Theatre is to provide a nurturing, supportive environment for students to explore the myriad avenues of vocal performance,” said Jay White, director of opera studies. “The repertoire chos...

Andrea Sosa Fontaine’s artistic medium of choice is shoes.   “I always had an interest in high school in learning to make shoes, but there was nothing in my area for it,” Sosa Fontaine said. “I kind of pushed that aside and just happened to run into a shoemaker when I was working in New York, and I paid her by the hour to teach me how to make shoes. I was hooked immediately and really loved that I could design and make something in the span of like a week.”  Sosa Fontaine, assistant professor in Kent State University's College of Architecture and Environmental Design, says ...