Walk the halls of some secondary private schools in Ohio and you will see students adorned in what appears to be typical school attire: striped skirts, traditional ties and stark white button-up oxfords.     What you do not see are the amazing women around the globe who use sewing skills, passed down from generation to generation, to craft the uniforms. Nor do you see a Kent State University alumna whose heart for humanity has turned a fashion dream into an ethical business that empowers women out of poverty. Meet Hilary Dell. In 2010 she graduated from Kent State’s F...

Kent State University at Salem horticulture students are continuing to help make an important historical landmark in East Liverpool more attractive and inviting to local motorists. Students in the landscape construction class, taught by Stan Jones on the Salem Campus, were back in East Liverpool where they worked on the second phase of a beautification project at the Point of Beginning – an often overlooked registered national historic landmark that had fallen into a state of neglect in recent years. The class used wooden beams and 18 tons of rock to create an area for visitors to walk to th...