Student Life

Kent State Student Receives American Red Cross Acts of Courage Award
Joshua Looser, a junior entrepreneurship major, received the Red Cross Acts of Courage Award after successfully performing the Heimlich maneuver on a woman who was choking last year.

Transgender Students Find Home, Security and Support at Kent State
For Emily Grubb, all it took was looking through a magazine to decide where to go to college. A copy of magazine led Grubb to Kent State.

Kent State Hospitality Students From Ashtabula and Kent Campuses Collaborate on Winning Concept
The Kent State Club Managers Association of America student chapter received an award at the association's World Conference.

Transgender Students Find Home, Security and Support at Kent State
For transgender students like Emily Grubb, Kent State is home.
Grubb and other students have found an inclusive, welcoming environment that offers resources for the transgender community, such as the student organization Trans*Fusion and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Student Center. Transgender students also receive support from Kent State’s faculty, staff and administrators.

Students Turn Smartphone Cases Into Lifesaving Medical Devices
Three Kent State students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication.
Together, with the help of LaunchNET Kent State, the three created Case.MD. Ariella Yager, entrepreneur major in Kent State’s College of Business Administration; Samuel Graska, cell and molecular biology major in Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences; and Justin Gleason, graduate student in Kent State’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design spent more than a year planning, inventing, designing and 3-D printing smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

Transgender Students Find Home, Security and Support at Kent State
For transgender students like Emily Grubb, Kent State is home. Grubb and other students have found an inclusive, welcoming environment that offers resources for the transgender community.

Students Turn Smartphone Cases Into Lifesaving Medical Devices
With the help of LaunchNET Kent State, three students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

Miss Collegiate Ohio Preps for National Stage
Deneen Penn, a Kent State University Trumbull sophomore, is Miss Collegiate Ohio 2017

Kent State Student Takes Steps to Stand United at Women’s March on Washington
Kent State's Julia Ryan heads to Washington D.C. to stand up for women's rights.