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Even Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s highest-ranking officials can experience a tug on their loyalties when the Golden Flashes take on their alma maters in athletic contests. President Todd Diacon, his wife, Moema Furtado, and head football coach Sean Lewis all will experience that dual loyalty on Saturday when Â鶹ÊÓƵ faces the University of Wisconsin-Madison at noon at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison.

In the spring of 1970, two-time Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumna and registered nurse Pat Gless was a junior in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s inaugural nursing program. While in class on Monday, May 4, a professor rushed into her classroom and warned students who could leave campus to do so. Fifty years later, Gless now reflects on the events surrounding that tragedy and how they have impacted her life and nursing career.

An ecology student testing water in a river. A nursing student assisting a patient. A music student performing onstage. These are just three of the 30 Â鶹ÊÓƵ students featured in the new Â鶹ÊÓƵ TV commercial that was developed and produced entirely in-house by Â鶹ÊÓƵ staff members who are all Â鶹ÊÓƵ graduates. 

Â鶹ÊÓƵ field hockey coach Kyle DeSandes-Moyer is pleased to announce the signing of 10-year-old Mary Alice Tryda through Team IMPACT to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ field hockey team.

The pathway from a two-year college to Â鶹ÊÓƵ will soon become an easier road to travel for Ohio students, thanks to a grant awarded to Â鶹ÊÓƵ to collaborate with three Ohio community colleges to streamline the transfer process.

On Saturday, Sept. 21, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ fight song blared down Main Street, the city of Kent was flooded with blue and gold, alumni and friends gathered and reminisced about their Â鶹ÊÓƵ days, fans packed the stadium to cheer on their beloved Golden Flashes and the entire campus boomed with Â鶹ÊÓƵ pride.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s nationally ranked Flight Technology program, in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, is one of only three nationwide that Delta Air Lines selected this year to become a Delta Propel Partner, a program that creates career opportunities for students studying to be future commercial pilots.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s long-standing relationship with the Tuscarawas County University Branch District to administer the Tuscarawas Campus of Â鶹ÊÓƵ will continue through June 30, 2030, in a new 10-year agreement approved by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Board of Trustees.

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Alumni Association is proud to announce its 2019 Alumni Award recipients. Recipients are chosen based on their exceptional contributions in their chosen profession, in their communities and at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ has made impressive moves in the rankings in the newly released 2020 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges list. Â鶹ÊÓƵ has climbed three spots, a 3% increase, on the Top Public Schools list. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is the only Northeast Ohio institution on the Top Public Schools list.