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Community Impact

White Coat Ceremony Kent Campus 2024

Second-year nursing students at ºÚÁÏÍø received white coats in a ceremony marking their transition into the professional sequence of their program. 

two images, a Douglas C-53 Skytrooper airplane and a robot dog.

ºÚÁÏÍø will host the Aeronautics and Engineering Expo (A&E Expo) on Saturday, Sept. 7, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the ºÚÁÏÍø Airport. This event offers a day of aviation excitement, hands-on STEM experiences, and family-friendly activities for all ages.

Props-4-Paws donation of food and supplies to Humane Society of Summit County in 2018

At the ºÚÁÏÍø Airport, two alumni are proving that the sky's not the limit when it comes to helping animals in need.

Northeast Ohio Undergraduate Research Symposium 2024

ºÚÁÏÍø welcomed undergraduate researchers from our university, Cleveland State University and the University of Akron to the Kent Campus for the 19th annual Northeast Ohio Undergraduate Research Symposium.

LGBTQ+ Kick-Off 2024

Before classes began for Fall Semester 2024, the ºÚÁÏÍø Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer Plus (LGBTQ+) Center welcomed the university's LGBTQ+ community back to campus with a Fall Kickoff event.

a monarch butterfly on a plant

A long-term study of butterfly populations in Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley National Park is shedding light on ecological changes and the impacts of human activities on local ecosystems. The study, which has been ongoing since the 1990s, represents one of the longest-running volunteer-driven insect surveys in North America. Experts from ºÚÁÏÍø’s Department of Biological Sciences are working to interpret 20-plus years’ worth of data and convey what it means for environmental conservation.

Visiting poets for the Wick 40th anniversary celebration. From left to right: Padraig Ó Tuama, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Hirshfield and Adrian Matejka

The celebration, Sept. 19-21, will be packed with panel discussions, workshops and poetry readings, culminating in a gala dinner on Sept. 21.

Fulbright Scholars assemble prosthetic hands as part of the Fulbright Pre-Academic Program at ºÚÁÏÍø.

For the past month, ºÚÁÏÍø has hosted 37 international graduate students as part of the Fulbright Pre-Academic Program, a monthlong immersion in American higher education and culture. The group, from 26 countries, arrived on the Kent Campus on July 21 and was scheduled to depart on Aug. 17 to begin their graduate programs at universities throughout the country.  

University Hospitals Future Nurse Academy Program students

This summer, ºÚÁÏÍø's College of Nursing welcomed high school students participating in the University Hospitals Future Nurse Academy program to campus for a tour and hands-on practice in our simulation labs. 

College of Podiatric Medicine White Coat Ceremony 2024

The white coat at ºÚÁÏÍø’s College of Podiatric Medicine’s White Coat Ceremony is presented as a reminder of the professionalism required by students, in their studies at ºÚÁÏÍø and later as they become podiatric physicians.