ºÚÁÏÍø

Profiles

Valentino Zullo

First Generation College Student Alum Exemplifies Transformative Power Of Public Humanities

Valentino Zullo’s teaching stems from his identity as a queer first-generation college student and a child of immigrants. His philosophies also find their origin in his relationship with the humanities as creative writing and comics were personally liberating and helped him learn English.

Tags: Profiles

Kent State Today

Malia White and Lipton.

IN A FLASH: Service with a Smile - and a Wag

Service animals are permitted in nearly every part of Kent State's campuses. 

Tags: Students First, Diverse Kent State, Student Accessibility Services, School of Visual Communication Design, Profiles

Kent State Today

Maria Jacobs Applied Vocal Jazz Instructor

Vocal Instructor Reflects on Ninth Album, New Book

Maria Jacobs, who teaches Applied Vocal Jazz, says music education includes many things besides music itself, most especially, history.

Tags: Profiles, Nationally Distinctive, Arts & Culture

Kent State Today

Melissa Van Oss

Building Confidence: From Fashion to Relationships

“It’s about looking at life through a different perspective, so you can be the most confident person you can be," said Melissa Van Oss, seduction visionary, bestselling author, speaker, and couples mindset coach.

Tags: Profiles

Kent State Today

Doctoral student, EHHS, Noor Agustina is from Indonesia.

‘This is what I’ve dreamed since I was a little girl’

A doctoral student from Indonesia has found everything she has dreamed of at Kent State. 

Tags: Global Presence, Student Life, Office of Global Education, College of Education, Health and Human Services, Profiles

Kent State Today

Franck Fotso, mechatronics major from Cameroon, Africa, chose Kent State because it has a top notch engineering program that is affordable.

International Student Finds Kent State Engineering Program Too Good to Pass Up

Franck Steve Guepjop Fotso of Cameroon, Africa, chose to attend Kent State because of its impressive engineering curriculum, which matched his career aspirations and had a robust program for international students, at an affordable price that fit into the family budget. 

Tags: Global Reach, University News, Student Life, Profiles, Featured Story, Kent State Works

Kent State Today

Tabitha Lockhart standing in hospital room

Alumna 'Thankful and Proud' of Healthcare Journey and Career

After graduating from the Salem Campus radiologic technology program in 2007, Tabitha Lockhart worked fulltime as a mobile X-ray technologist traveling throughout Ohio. At the same time, she took classes through Kent State and earned her bachelor’s degree in public health in 2012. 

Tags: Profiles

Kent State Today

Aimee Crane in front of NASA sign

Out of This World Design Experience

Aimee Crane (Visual Communication Design - BFA ’09, MFA ’12) has the distinction of being the Kent State graduate whose work might just go the farthest. The farthest away from the Earth, that is. Currently the Artemis Brand Manager for NASA, Crane designed the mission patch for the Artemis I Mission which accompanied the Orion spacecraft on its orbit around the moon. We recently spoke with her about her own voyage from Kent State to NASA.

Tags: Profiles

Kent State Today

Congrats to Eric Taylor, OTA Winner!

Mentoring While Teaching Is the Perfect Match

The combination of passing on a love of Earth science while acting as a mentor for students is a perfect match for Eric Taylor, associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at ºÚÁÏÍø at Stark.  

Tags: University News, Community Impact, Profiles

Kent State Today

Kathy Dwinnells, Ph.D., RN, CNS, CNE, associate professor in the college of Nursing at the Trumbull campus

Compassion and Putting Students First Is Winning Strategy for Trumbull Nursing Professor

Empathy, warmth and kindness are things that Kathy Dwinnells, Ph.D., RN, CNS, CNE, associate professor in the College of Nursing at the Trumbull Campus, believes are important parts of a nursing education.

Tags: Community Impact, Students First, University News, Profiles

Kent State Today