Make a Gift to the Scholarship Dean Stocker Retirement Announcement Dean Stocker Through the Years Photo Gallery Kent State University at Ashtabula and the Ashtabula Area College Committee, Inc. are establishing a scholarship fund to be endowed in celebration of Dean and Chief Administrative Officer Susan J. Stocker, Ph.D., and her historic leadership tenure on campus. The Susan J. Stocker Nursing Scholarship will support her two greatest passions by providing financial support for students in Kent State Ashtabula’s nursing program and ensuring her legacy will impact future generation...

Dear Kent State University Students, Faculty and Staff, We hope this message finds you successfully winding down your academic year and looking forward to a restful and enjoyable summer. Throughout the 2022 Spring Semester, we have been diligently working on several projects to foster a greater sense of belonging for everyone in our university community and to cultivate an even stronger climate of inclusion. Our Anti-Racism Task Force made great strides in its endeavors this spring, including the creation of its website and dashboard, through which we can promote transparency and trac...

After more than 30 years as the Costume Shop Supervisor for the School of Theatre and Dance and Porthouse Theatre, Robin Ruth will retire from Kent State University this summer. When you stop and think about all the students that have walked through the Costume Shop and the number of costumes that have graced the stages of Kent State University and Porthouse Theatre over the last 30 years, they all have one thing in common: Robin Ruth. As the Costume Shop Supervisor, Robin brought her costuming and wardrobe expertise to hundreds of theatre, dance, and fashion students at Kent State and...

If you catch the last few minutes of class with Joel Peerless, MD, you might be lucky enough to learn a bit of American Sign Language (ASL). Peerless, who serves CPM as Adjunct Faculty teaching Medicine to third year students, started adding ASL to the end of his lessons this year as an extracurricular, albeit beneficial activity for the future doctors. As for Peerless himself, ASL began as a retirement hobby just four years ago following more than 30 years in the medical field. “My intention was to become a sign language interpreter as a retiree profession…however, once I got into the cour...

Associate Professor of History Matt Crawford, Ph.D., was recently awarded a short-term Beckman Center Fellowship by the Philadelphia-based Science History Institute. The fellowship includes a stipend that will allow Matt to continue work as a researcher in residence on his second book - a study of metallurgy and mining in late colonial Peru - in the institute's archives for one month. An expert on the Spanish Empire in Latin America, Matt's work connects the History of Science with the history of Latin America and the Atlantic World. This latest award follows on the heels of Matt rece...