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Student Life

Twelve-year-old Jameson Payne attends a class at Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg.

In Ohio, most seventh graders are learning earth and space science, physical science and life science in a middle school classroom. But Jameson Payne is not like most kids his age. 

Â鶹ÊÓƵ junior Josh Looser received the Red Cross Acts of Courage Award after successfully performing the Heimlich maneuver on a woman who was choking last year.

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.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ transgender student Emily Grubb (left) stands with Ken Ditlevson, director of the university’s LGBTQ Student Center. The LGBTQ Student Center is located on the lower level of the Kent Student Center.

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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

Pictured are hospitality management students from the Ashtabula and Kent campuses. They are (left to right) Jordan Manning, Meghan Simmons, Brooke Mihalick, Kaylee Madden, Brittany Hopkins, Katie Uterhark, Quintin Caponi, Chelsa Vogel and Brittany Pope.

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Club Managers Association of America student chapter received an award at the association's World Conference.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ transgender student Emily Grubb (left) stands with Ken Ditlevson, director of the university’s LGBTQ Student Center. The LGBTQ Student Center is located on the lower level of the Kent Student Center.

For transgender students like Emily Grubb, Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s faculty, staff and administrators.

Case.MD helps make emergency medicine more convenient and safe.

Three Â鶹ÊÓƵ students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. 

Together, with the help of LaunchNET Â鶹ÊÓƵ, the three created Case.MD. Ariella Yager, entrepreneur major in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s College of Business Administration; Samuel Graska, cell and molecular biology major in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s College of Arts and Sciences; and Justin Gleason, graduate student in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’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.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ transgender student Emily Grubb (left) stands with Ken Ditlevson, director of the university’s LGBTQ Student Center. The LGBTQ Student Center is located on the lower level of the Kent Student Center.

For transgender students like Emily Grubb, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is home. Grubb and other students have found an inclusive, welcoming environment that offers resources for the transgender community.

Case.MD helps make emergency medicine more convenient and safe.

With the help of LaunchNET Â鶹ÊÓƵ, three students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

Deneen Penn, a Â鶹ÊÓƵ Trumbull sophomore, is Miss Collegiate Ohio 2017

Deneen Penn, a Â鶹ÊÓƵ Trumbull sophomore, is Miss Collegiate Ohio 2017