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College of Public Health Professor Partners With CHC Addiction Services for $2.6 Million Grant To Expand Opioid Treatment

Ohio’s opioid epidemic is one of the worst in the country. One Â鶹´«Ã½ professor and his team are aiming to change that. Deric Kenne in the College of Public Health received a five-year, $2.6 million federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to expand and enhance services for opioid use disorder treatment in Summit County, Ohio. A significant portion of the funding will go to CHC Addiction Services to enhance and expand medication-assisted treatment programming.

Kent State Receives $1.2 Million Federal Grant to Assist Adults in College Enrollment

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Â鶹´«Ã½ a nearly $1.2 million, five-year TRIO Educational Opportunity Centers program grant. The program is designed to provide support services to qualified adults, including veterans, who want to enter or continue a program of postsecondary education. 

29 Kent State Faculty Members Named in Top 2% of Scientists in Fields Worldwide

The report, published in the PLOS Biology journal, evaluated more than six million scientists across 22 different fields and 176 sub-fields from 1996 until 2019. The top 2% list is made up of more than 100,000 most-cited scientists who have authored at least five scientific papers.

Kent State’s Giving Tuesday Launches Monthlong Initiative Featuring Numerous Incentives for Supporters

Â鶹´«Ã½, which has gained national recognition for its creative and successful Giving Tuesday campaigns, launched its monthlong celebration of philanthropy on Nov. 1. Giving Tuesday, now in its eighth year at Kent State, has raised nearly $7 million during that time, which illuminates the impact that can be made when Golden Flashes come together.

October 2021 Social Media Recap

Golden Flashes, can you believe we’re already more than halfway through this semester? Time has been flying by!

Six Â鶹´«Ã½ Physics professors are in the top 2% scientists in the world

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Alumni Life

2021 Alumni Awards

Leigh Archibald appointed as Director for Academic Budget Management

Kent State’s Lamar R. Hylton Named Recipient of Four Prestigious Local and National Awards

Lamar R. Hylton, Ph.D., Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s senior vice president for student affairs, has been named the recipient of the NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) Region IV-East Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Senior Student Affairs Officer for 2021, named to Crain’s Cleveland Business Forty Under 40, selected as a recipient of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Diamond Honoree award and is a member of the 2022 class of the NASPA Pillars of the Profession award.

'Love in Reserve' Play by Eric Mansfield to Run Nov. 5-20

The Rubber City Theatre in Akron, Ohio, will host the play "Love in Reserve" by career storyteller, U.S. Army veteran, award-winning journalist and playwright Eric Mansfield. At Â鶹´«Ã½, many know Mansfield from his role as assistant vice president for content strategy and communications in the Division of University Communications and Marketing.

Dr. Gustav Medicus Publishes Article in The Burlington Magazine

HONORS COLLEGE MAPS SUCCESS FOR FRESHMEN

On Saturday, September 18, first-year Honors College students gathered in the KIVA for an Honors College Academic Forum to hear from vari