Kent State University at Ashtabula Human Services Technology Associate Lecturer Joan Steidl has produced a program to air as part of the 50th Commemoration of May 4, 1970 on WKSU 89.7 FM, Kent State University’s award-winning NPR public news radio station. “The Power of So Many Flowers” first aired Wednesday, April 29, during Morning Edition and All Things Considered. It is one of five programs in the “Fragments of May 4th: Artifacts, Mementos, and Meaning” series. Steidl put together the audio production of the piece. Graduate journalism student Lyndsey Brennan wrote the story whic...

Kent State University student Sean Fitzgerald shares what it’s like being a resident assistant (RA), co-hosting a sports radio show and living on the autism spectrum. Sean Fitzgerald traces the beginning of his love of sports and talking about sports to car rides with his father in his hometown of Strongsville, Ohio. Together, they talked sports while listening to Northeast Ohio sports personality Kenny Roda on the radio. Fast forward a decade or so and now, in his junior year, Fitzgerald is beginning his fifth semester co-hosting his own popular sports radio program on Kent State...

Timothy Mikes is a graduate student in Kent State University’s College of Public Health with a specialty in epidemiology. He’s also on the autism spectrum and using his perspective to enhance the university experience for other students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). When Timothy Mikes relates the story of how he went from studying nursing as an undergraduate to becoming a graduate student in the College of Public Health, it unfolds as a logical progression from step-to-step. His interest in health took him from nursing, to biology and then finally to public health. Mikes used hi...

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Brenda Burke and Sean Broghammer Join Kent State’s Division of Enrollment Management Just as Kent State was transitioning to social distancing and working from home, two new employees were beginning their roles with the university: Brenda Burke as Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management, Student Financial Aid; and Sean Broghammer as Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management, Admissions. Effective mid-March, Brenda Burke is responsible for the development of comprehensive strategic planning as it relates to student financial aid and scholarship functions. She provi...

Through multiple organizations and collaborations on and off campus, Kent State University ended 2019 as a more sustainable campus, and those who contributed to sustainable efforts worked hard to reduce the university’s carbon footprint leading to the university being honored with the Keep Ohio Beautiful award for Colleges and Universities. Keep Ohio Beautiful is the Ohio affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, a national nonprofit with a goal of keeping communities clean and green. The organization provides resources to help put a stop to littering, enforce and encourage recycling and beautif...