Every month the Kent State University Office of Global Education puts on a Cultural Cafe, where students and staff can come and try sample dishes from the culture being presented.March’s Cultural Cafe featured students from Rwanda presenting on their country’s history, including the Tutsi genocide and President Paul Kagame, who has been in office since April of 2000 and is often credited with leading post-genocide recovery. Ruth Akaliza and Maylis Zimulinda wanted to run March’s Cultural Cafe since they do not always see much representation for their home country and wanted to try to clear up ...

  Congratulations to Psychological Sciences Professor Karin Coifman, Ph.D., who has been selected as the new director of Kent State University’s Brain Health Reaserch Institute. To read more about Dr. Coifman and the BHRI, check out this article: Article announcing Karin Coifman as new Brain Health Research Institute director...

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“I like having the connection I’m building with my coach where I can just talk about how I feel and how I’m doing, and she pushes me to new boundaries and teaching me how to better myself as a student.”

Allison Herron got her perfect match on Match Day at the College of Podiatric Medine

It was Match Day at Kent State University’s College of Podiatric Medicine, and four-year student Allison Herron was excited to see if she would get her wish to do her residency in Ohio.Herron signed on to her laptop and was elated to find out that she got her wish – she was matched with Aultman Hospital, based in Canton, Ohio.This is exactly where Herron wanted to be.“When I was looking for professional schools, I wanted to stay in Ohio,” said Herron, who is a native of Salem, Ohio. “My family is really important to me. I worked at Aultman while I was an undergrad at Hiram College. I’m go...

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