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Tiera Moore is the first in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree. Helping first-generation students like her succeed is a campuswide priority at Kent State.

This early climate science pioneer’s contributions have been overlooked, says geology professor Joseph D. Ortiz, PhD, who has co-authored a paper assessing her experiments.

Sarah Shendy, BA ’06, fell in love with law enforcement. Now she’s in charge of recruiting others, including women and minorities, to join her in community-oriented policing for the state of Ohio.

President Emerita Carol Cartwright recently retired from more than 20 years of helping lead the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. But that just signals the next phase of a career devoted to higher education.