My name is Lauren Falter, and I am a graduate student at Kent State studying Speech-Language Pathology. I recently earned my undergraduate degree from Kent State with a major in Speech Pathology and Audiology and two minors in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Special Education. I reflect positively on my time at Kent State and as a student researcher in the Swallowing Physiology and Rehabilitation Research (SPARR) Laboratory on campus. Throughout high school, I pondered careers with educational and medical focuses, and I found the field of Speech-Language Pathology to be the perfect mix...
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I took an architecture survey class upstairs – cementing my life of writing about design and the built environment. My wife of 33 years, Heidi Johnson-Wright (B.A. in English, Kent, 1982) lived next door at Prentice Hall. My wife uses a wheelchair for mobility and did then. The seeds of my activism for people with disabilities and all marginalized folks were planted right there – in the sacred ground between Taylor and Prentice, where May 4th observances take place. My first job was with the Columbus Dispatch (I zeroed in only on central Ohio where my wife was starting la...
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced students and faculty at Kent State to learn and work remotely in spring of 2020, students in the School of Media and Journalism were at risk of losing internships. As a response to the developing situation, the School organized a project called the Collaborative NewsLab to provide students with real world work experience, while newsrooms, hit with unprecedented financial challenges, were resorting to layoffs and furloughs. Fast-forward a year-and-a-half, and the NewsLab contin...
A degree from Kent State’s School of Media and Journalism can lead to opportunities to work across fields and businesses — and all over the world. Alumna Mary Jo Spletzer, ’10, has used what she learned as a public relations major to make her mark at Atlantis Resorts in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Spletzer met the man who would become her husband — an exchange student from Germany — during her senior year, so “it was inevitable that I ended up living and working outside of the U.S.” But she began her career locally at...
East Liverpool took home the traveling plaque by winning the sixth annual Kent State Columbiana County Classic with a 66-50 score over Salem High School on the Quakers home court. With the win, the Potters tied the series at 3-3. Representatives from the Salem and East Liverpool campuses greeted fans by handing out mini magnetic flashlights at the door and provided t-shirts that the cheerleaders tossed into the stands throughout the game. All players, coaches and cheerleaders also received shirts. Always a favorite, Flash cheered and danced with fans of all ages. At halftime, four student...
The second-year students of the occupational therapy assistant program from Kent State East Liverpool took a lot of what they are learning and incorporated it into activities for children at the Lighthouse Kids Learning Center in Wellsville. The facility provides daycare services for infants, toddlers and preschool-aged youngsters. The children range in age from six weeks to five years old. OTA students designed and presented hour-long programs for each age group that met the groups’ development levels while interacting with the daycare teachers. This provided the Kent State students wit...
The Business Leadership Training (BLT) is a partnership between Kent State Twinsburg Academic Center and the Twinsburg and Nordonia Hills Chambers of Commerce. The BLT bi-monthly programming is free and open to the public. On Thursday, January 20, 2022, from noon – 1:00 p.m., a virtual presentation covering diversity, equity, and inclusion will be available for anyone to attend. "DEI&B 101: An Introduction to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging" will be presented by AJ Leu (they/them), Diversity and Career Development Director in the College of Communication and Information a...