Curious about the fall foliage on campus? Kent State Today spoke to Rebekkah Berryhill, university grounds manager, to find out more about the changing trees on campus. Below, Berryhill shares not only what types of trees we enjoy on the Kent Campus but also talks about the careful process her team and University Facilities Management follows in order to be good stewards of our beautiful landscape. "Summer conditions typically dictate what types of fall colors we will experience. Sadly, we had the major flooding event sandwiched between two drought periods this year, so I’m not terribly o...

It all started in 2014 with a political button from Ross Perot’s failed 1992 presidential election bid.  Kent State University student Mason St. Clair’s grandfather had given it to his mom, who passed the button on to him and unknowingly set off a spark for collecting political memorabilia.  In the nine years since, St. Clair’s collection has grown to more than 8,000 pieces, which for the past few years he has regularly put on display in two glass cases on the first floor of the University Library, just before the elevators.  St. Clair said his collection fills his ...

At Nationwide Insurance, Kent State alumna McKenna Gammon, ’22, works at the intersection of design, technology and communication as a software engineer. The technical skills and project management experience she developed as an Emerging Media and Technology major first caught the eye of her employer during her junior year of college. “Nationwide reached out to me on Handshake (a job and internship search engine for college students) and recognized the skills I had gained here and thought I would be a good fit for the internship,” she recalls. “I went along with that, and that turned int...