Hello Kent State! Our names are Baylee DiCioccio and Addison Sharrow, and we are the Captains of the KSU cheerleading team. We are also both Health and Physical Education majors here at Kent State. Recently, we participated at NCA college nationals where teams from all across the nation competed in Daytona, Florida. Our competition looks different in comparison to other sports. We go up against teams in any conference. For example, a team in our division this year was Texas A&M. In addition, we face all of our competitors at one time, not individually. In order to even be able to comp...

Collaboration between institutions provides more resources for students. Kent State University's participation in the Northeast Ohio Public University Research Alliance (NEO-PURA) is creating space and time for students to innovate across Northeast Ohio. Crain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required) and Ideastream recently featured Kent State for its partnership with other Northeast Ohio. Kent State, Cleveland State University, Northeast Ohio Medical University, the University of Akron and Youngstown State University all partner alongside one another in NEO-PURA to help grow researc...

Two Kent State University College of Nursing alumnae brought home national awards from the recent National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) Annual Conference held in March in Portland, Oregon.  Marcia Cornell, who earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing at Kent State, was awarded NACNS’s 2023 Preceptor of the Year Award. A preceptor serves as a one-on-one mentor for nursing students. The award recognizes a clinical nurse specialist preceptor who has demonstrated a commitment to teach, coach and mentor critical nurse specialist students to achieve compete...