The Student Nurses Association at Kent State East Liverpool spearheaded a project to help provide gifts for 100 local children through the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree project. Students, faculty and staff across campus participated in the outreach effort, collecting baby dolls, trucks, games, Legos, other toys, coats, clothing and four bikes. Angela Douglass, senior lecturer in the ADN program on the East Liverpool Campus, helped the students organize the outreach project and noted that this partnership has continued for 20 years. “The spirit of giving is evident each year,” she said. ...
Her journey into the world of healthcare began on the Kent State Salem Campus and now Tabitha Lockhart is using that foundation to care for patients as a certified physician assistant (PA-C) at the Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating from the Salem Campus radiologic technology program in 2007, Lockhart worked full time as a mobile X-ray technologist, traveling throughout Ohio. At the same time, she took classes through Kent State and earned her bachelor’s degree in public health in 2012.“Throughout my X-ray tech career, I knew I wanted to have more re...
Kent State entrepreneurship graduate Evan Schumann ’17 and his wife Marisa Sergi were recently recognized in the Food & Drink category of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. Schumann is co-owner of L’uva Bella Winery with Sergi, whose family has been in the wine business for over 15 years. Following graduation from Kent State, Schumann started a company in the chemical industry. He then began working in consulting and mergers and acquisitions. In 2020, he and Sergi acquired L’uva Bella. The company currently distributes in nine states across the Midwest and East Coast and will launch in a 10t...