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The circumstances are grim: Beloved ������ mascot Flash is stressed out and hasn’t been able to find the crucial student ID on exam day. You and your friends are the only ones who can help. Your group is frantically scrambling to find the lost ID, but time is running out before it becomes too late for Flash to take the exam. This scenario might sound like something out of a Kent State mystery movie, but it’s actually the situation in the new escape room called ESCAPE in a FLASH at Kent State’s East Liverpool campus. The Team Challenge, running until March of 2020, has been att...

Naysayers warned her that it couldn’t be done in Geauga County. But Jacqueline Samuel persisted. After a year of construction, she now lives in the first net-zero house in the region. Despite its location in cloudy northeast Ohio, this solar-powered house is producing more energy than it consumes, without burning fossil fuels. A group of students in an Understanding Architecture class at Kent State Geauga recently took a tour of Samuel’s Amish-built home to get a hands-on sense of what’s possible. They were brought there by Ravenna architect Sean Thompson, who is an adjunct faculty member i...

Dr. Angela Spalsbury, Dean and Chief Administrative Officer of ������ Geauga and former Regional Academic Center, announces that the name of the Regional Academic Center has been officially changed to Twinsburg Academic Center, effective immediately. What’s in the name change? Clarity! Since 2012, ������'s Regional Academic Center on Creekside Drive in Twinsburg has been a second location for the Geauga regional campus. Neither the name of the educational facility nor its association to Geauga County spoke to its sense of place and its expanding ...

Campus Executive Chef, Billy Edmondson, was a finalist in the Aramark Culinary Excellence competition in Philadelphia Wednesday. Over 100 chefs participated in multiple phases of the national ACE competition and Chef Billy was one of 15 finalists. During the competition, Billy cooked alongside chefs from Boston University and University of North Carolina Wilmington. Billy and his team created a four-course menu based on a basket of 16 mystery ingredients. Their creations were evaluated and scored by judges from the American Culinary Federation (ACF), the largest professional chefs’ organiza...

������’s College of Nursing recently received a grant totaling $165,000 from Peg’s Foundation, formerly the Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation, a private grant-making foundation that supports mental health programs in Northeast Ohio.  Wendy Umberger, Ph.D., RN, PMHCNS-BC, associate dean for graduate programs, and Lisa Onesko, DNP, APRN-BC, director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program and associate professor, received $105,000, payable over three years to continue the Peg’s Foundation traineeship program for graduate students pursuing a master’s degree in nursing ...

A clear intention to pursue social justice led Stuart Chen-Hayes, Ph.D. ’94, NCC, LCPC, to Kent State in 1990 to pursue a doctoral degree in counselor education. What he learned at the university – and what inspired him – significantly changed the course of his life, professionally and personally.   Stuart is a professor and program coordinator of Counselor Education/School Counseling, City University of New York, Lehman College, and the author of the new book “Double Dads One Teen: A queer family's trailblazing life in the USA and Taiwan,” DIO Press, Inc., 2019, the subject of which is t...