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����Թ� State Celebrates Its Newest Graduates With Summer Commencement Ceremonies

The ����Թ� alumni family will grow by more than 1,200 new graduates as the university holds its summer commencement ceremonies. The accomplishments of the Summer Class of 2022 will be recognized with in-person, outdoor commencement ceremonies and a virtual commencement ceremony on Aug. 20.

Aliyah C. Tipton

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Aliyah Tipton

Asst. Director, Communications
Division of Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement
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Bruno Beidack

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Bruno Beidacki

Global Programs Advisor
Office of Global Education
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WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE:

April  2022

Lolita Winning

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Lolita Winning 

Administrative Assistant
Brain Health Research Institute
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WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE:

April  2022

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STEM Professors Receive NSF ADVANCE Grant to Explore Impact of Gender and Other Factors on Workload of STEM Faculty

“Who is Counted and What Counts: Tracking Women’s Engagement in Low-Prestige/High-Workload Service Activities at ����Թ�” will examine whether faculty members with underrepresented and/or historically excluded intersecting gender and racial/ethnic identities (IGREs) perform more high-workload, low-prestige service work than their faculty peers.

KSU Museum Announces New Exhibition ‘As the World Weds: Global Wedding Traditions’

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100 YEARS AGO AT KENT STATE: Distance Learning Comes to ����Թ� State Normal College

In 1922, ����Թ� State’s first president, John McGilvrey, introduced what could be considered the great-grandmother of our current distance-learning programs at ����Թ� State: correspondence courses. 

Five ����Թ� State Experimental Archaeology Graduates Earn Full Rides to Grad Schools

Sometimes it just takes a small spark to ignite a fire within you. For Anna Mika of Parma, Ohio, who started as a geology major her freshman year at ����Թ� and switched to anthropology the following year, that spark came in 2017 while taking an anthropology course called North America’s Ice Aged Hunters, taught by Metin I. Eren, Ph.D., associate professor and director of archaeology in the College of Arts and Sciences. She said that course changed her perspective on everything.  

����Թ� State Helps Students Who Left College Without a Degree to Settle Their Debt and Continue Their Education

����Թ� is excited to be a part of the Ohio College Comeback Compact, an innovative program to help students who left college with debt but without a degree to continue their education. ����Թ� State is collaborating with seven public colleges and universities in Northeast Ohio to reach out to these students and provide a path back to higher education while reducing or eliminating their debt.

Soldier-Turned-Police Officer Draws on his Past for Debut Novel Featuring Crime-Solving Veteran

When he’s not working to keep the ����Թ� Campus safe, police officer Vance Voyles can be found in the classroom where he works as an adjunct professor teaching Story for Film for the digital media production major in the School of Media and Journalism within the College of Communication and Information. 

Engineering Professor Wins Farris Family Award for Pursuing Research Into Clean Energy Fuels

Dhruba Panthi, Ph.D., assistant professor of Engineering Technology at ����Թ� at Tuscarawas, is this year’s winner of the Farris Family Innovation Award. His research focuses on hydrogen fuel because its only byproduct is water, which is harmless to the environment, unlike other fuels that result in carbon dioxide emissions that pose a great environmental threat.