Community Impact
Second-year nursing students at Â鶹ÊÓƵ received white coats in a ceremony marking their transition into the professional sequence of their program.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ will host the Aeronautics and Engineering Expo (A&E Expo) on Saturday, Sept. 7, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Airport. This event offers a day of aviation excitement, hands-on STEM experiences, and family-friendly activities for all ages.
At the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Airport, two alumni are proving that the sky's not the limit when it comes to helping animals in need.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ welcomed undergraduate researchers from our university, Cleveland State University and the University of Akron to the Kent Campus for the 19th annual Northeast Ohio Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Before classes began for Fall Semester 2024, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer Plus (LGBTQ+) Center welcomed the university's LGBTQ+ community back to campus with a Fall Kickoff event.
A long-term study of butterfly populations in Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley National Park is shedding light on ecological changes and the impacts of human activities on local ecosystems. The study, which has been ongoing since the 1990s, represents one of the longest-running volunteer-driven insect surveys in North America. Experts from Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Department of Biological Sciences are working to interpret 20-plus years’ worth of data and convey what it means for environmental conservation.
The celebration, Sept. 19-21, will be packed with panel discussions, workshops and poetry readings, culminating in a gala dinner on Sept. 21.
For the past month, Â鶹ÊÓƵ has hosted 37 international graduate students as part of the Fulbright Pre-Academic Program, a monthlong immersion in American higher education and culture. The group, from 26 countries, arrived on the Kent Campus on July 21 and was scheduled to depart on Aug. 17 to begin their graduate programs at universities throughout the country.
This summer, Â鶹ÊÓƵ's College of Nursing welcomed high school students participating in the University Hospitals Future Nurse Academy program to campus for a tour and hands-on practice in our simulation labs.
The white coat at Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s College of Podiatric Medicine’s White Coat Ceremony is presented as a reminder of the professionalism required by students, in their studies at Â鶹ÊÓƵ and later as they become podiatric physicians.