Tanner Noble celebrates his high school graduation with his family.

A teen from Trumbull County, Ohio, who beat stage 4 medullary thyroid cancer was not expected to live, let alone graduate high school.   But Warren, Ohio, resident Tanner Noble beat the odds and walked in cap and gown to receive his diploma from LaBrae High School after spending his entire high school career battling the disease.    He plans to attend Kent State University in the Fall Semester 2019 to study psychology and counseling.   Read his inspiring story at Today.com: https://www.today.com/health/teen-stage-4-medullary-thyroid-can...

Kent State students Noah Lewchenko and Ashley Heilman presented an integrated marketing campaign at Subaru's headquarters and took second place in the national Effie Collegiate competition.

An interdisciplinary team of Kent State students took second place nationwide for their efforts in creating a marketing campaign to reinvent the car buying process for Millennials and Gen Z. The competition, Effie Collegiate, is modeled after the professional competition of the same name, calling on the next generation’s advertising, marketing, design and communication students to work on real world business challenges. Subaru served as the client, sponsoring this year’s challenge, and hundreds of teams responded. The second-place team was made up of four students in the College of Commu...

PTA Program Director Tiffany Kiphart

ASHTABULA, OHIO (JUNE 6, 2019) –  The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) had never selected a physical therapist assistant for its Education Leader Institute Fellowship – until now.  Kent State University Physical Therapist Assistant Technology Program Director Tiffany Kiphart, M.Ed., ATC, PTA, will be the first certified PTA to participate in the program beginning in July. “I’m honored and excited to be selected to participate in the Education Leader Institute program,” Kiphart said.  “This is an opportunity to expand my professional portfolio and leadership skil...

Kent State Florence is the location of the symposium being held June 21-23, 2019.

Educators from across the globe will convene at Kent State University’s Florence campus June 21-23 for an international symposium where participants will use design innovation principles to create a framework for the future of education. The symposium, Re-Designing Education to Shape a Better World, will bring together 40 thought leaders from the U.S. and Canada, and countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, at Kent State’s campus in Palazzo, Vittori, Florence, Italy, according to symposium chair Robin Vande Zande, Ph.D., professor of art education at Kent State. Elizabeth Kenyo...

College of Communication & Information

The School of Visual Communication Design would like to recognize those students who have been awarded scholarships for the upcoming 2019-2020 academic year. These scholarships are awarded to students who show promise in the field of visual communication design. American Greetings Endowed Scholarship for Excellence in Design  Sarah Riedlinger   Kayla  Riffle The Christopher and Judith Everett Endowed Scholarship for Photography  Jessica Rice VCD Alumni Scholarship Savannah Sabistina VCD Scholarship  Maeve Chambers &nbs...

Subscribe to