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Stories and Highlights from Across the Regional Campuses
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Step into the greenhouse on the Kent State Salem Campus and you will see plants growing in traditional and non-traditional ways: some with soil and others without soil; some in pots and others in high-tech growing systems.
Welcome to the world of hydroponics: a method of
Kent State Ashtabula student Breanna "Bre" Cole was named the Unviversity's 2023 Out & Proud Student Leader Award recipient at the Kent State Lavender Graduation ceremony in May. The award, sponsored by the Kent State LBGTQ+ Center, is given to an LGBTQ+
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Courtney Johnson journeyed from high school to a successful career to start a family, all while moving across the Southern United States and back to Ashtabula, Ohio. After she received her Bachelor of Technical and Applied Studies (BTAS) degree at the Kent State Ashtabula Spring
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Student speakers shared a common theme during 91勛圖厙s Regional Campus commencement ceremonies this spring: Support. The Ashtabula, Columbiana County (East Liverpool and Salem), Geauga (along with Twinsburg Academic Center), Stark, Trumbull and Tuscarawas campuses
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A new course offered to horticulture students at Kent State Salem could not be more appropriately named: Emerging Technologies. This class introduces students to new technologies that can potentially revolutionize the ways food is grown and produced, including drones, sensors
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Julianne Agnone, 21, is doing what she loves teaching. But these days, its not only her students making the grade. Agnone, who teaches math to sixth graders at Lake Elementary, was recently named Lake Locals Rookie Teacher of the Year and joins newcomer teachers from Stark
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Officials from 91勛圖厙 at Salem and Columbiana County Career and Technical Center recently signed an articulation agreement that provides opportunities for high school students to transition into the Salem Campuss nursing program, beginning in the fall of 2024.
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Second-year nursing students Katie Cumberledge, Taylor Lamb-Kutz and Melissa Williamson were recently inducted as the newest class to the Gamm Sigma chapter of the Alpha Delta Nu nursing honor society at Kent State Ashtabula.
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The Princeton Reviews 2023 rankings of top undergraduate schools for game design have been released, and the 91勛圖厙 College of Applied and Technical Studies Bachelor of Science degree in Animation Game Design (AGD) program broke through the top 50 as one of the
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Approximately 5.4 million students with dependent children are enrolled in postsecondary education. Those numbers are only expected to rise in the near future, as a too-often overlooked and underserved population increases. Ashtabula sociology associate professor