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Student Life

×ÔοÊÓÆµ 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.

Transgender Students Find Home, Security and Support at ×ÔοÊÓÆµ

For transgender students like Emily Grubb, ×ÔοÊÓÆµ 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 ×ÔοÊÓÆµâ€™s faculty, staff and administrators.

Tags: Student Life, Office of the University Architect, Facilities Planning and Operations, Division of Finance and Administration, Division of Student Life

Division of People, Culture and Belonging

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

Students Turn Smartphone Cases Into Lifesaving Medical Devices

Three ×ÔοÊÓÆµ students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. 

Together, with the help of LaunchNET ×ÔοÊÓÆµ, the three created Case.MD. Ariella Yager, entrepreneur major in ×ÔοÊÓÆµâ€™s College of Business Administration; Samuel Graska, cell and molecular biology major in ×ÔοÊÓÆµâ€™s College of Arts and Sciences; and Justin Gleason, graduate student in ×ÔοÊÓÆµâ€™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.

Tags: Student Life, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, College of Arts and Sciences, LaunchNet ×ÔοÊÓÆµ

Office of Student Research

×ÔοÊÓÆµ 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.

Transgender Students Find Home, Security and Support at ×ÔοÊÓÆµ

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

Tags: Student Life, Office of the University Architect, Facilities Planning and Operations, Division of Finance and Administration, Division of Student Life

Kent Campus

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

Students Turn Smartphone Cases Into Lifesaving Medical Devices

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

Tags: Student Life, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, College of Arts and Sciences, LaunchNet ×ÔοÊÓÆµ

Kent Campus

Deneen Penn, a ×ÔοÊÓÆµ Trumbull sophomore, is Miss Collegiate Ohio 2017

Miss Collegiate Ohio Preps for National Stage

Deneen Penn, a ×ÔοÊÓÆµ Trumbull sophomore, is Miss Collegiate Ohio 2017

Tags: Student Life, ×ÔοÊÓÆµ at Trumbull

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×ÔοÊÓÆµ Student Takes Steps to Stand United at Women’s March on Washington

×ÔοÊÓÆµ Student Takes Steps to Stand United at Women’s March on Washington

×ÔοÊÓÆµ's Julia Ryan heads to Washington D.C. to stand up for women's rights.

Tags: Featured Story, Women's Studies, Student Life

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textbooks

×ÔοÊÓÆµ Student Shares Secrets to Saving Money on Textbooks

The Akron Beacon Journal talks with a ×ÔοÊÓÆµ senior about how she has saved money since her freshman year.

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Homework Takes on a New Meaning for ×ÔοÊÓÆµ Trumbull Student

Sam Olson makes her final year in the Veterinary Technology program a memorable one.

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