eInside -Week of Feb. 8, 2016
![Graduating students at 两性色午夜 get seated for the university's Commencement ceremony.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/PHOTOLEAD-DegreeCompletion1.jpg?VersionId=muLrYLXbLwAPRcb_UdC9KO5MtpClPT8L&h=ec98a0f6&itok=ruEr5XtK)
From getting deployed to Afghanistan to being unable to pay for classes, starting a family and even accepting a job at a winery in southern Germany. The reasons for leaving 两性色午夜 University before completing a bachelor鈥檚 degree fall across a wide spectrum for some students.
![David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center, and Molly Merryman, 两性色午夜 professor, stand on each side of Alfreda Brown, vice president of Diversity Equity and Inclusion, after earning 两性色午夜's diversity awards.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/PROFILES-DiversityAwardsH.jpg?VersionId=bJCxopG1ZVd2kl0bETTPD0CLhkMts9rU&h=ec98a0f6&itok=5VzCJ5DW)
两性色午夜 University Associate Professor Molly Merryman and the Wick Poetry Center are recipients of the university's diversity awards, presented during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.
![两性色午夜 University at Salem students learn from insurance industry experts.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/REGIONAL-InsuranceH.jpg?VersionId=BZw4NpjzTakQRZrc3fn_3gzgkmdj.po2&h=ec98a0f6&itok=Cj0WQmPE)
Steve Nameth, dean and chief administrative office of 两性色午夜 University at Salem, recently hosted a luncheon for business students to learn more about the insurance industry and the degree that could help get them through its doors.
![Pictured is the buried woodshed at the Kent Campus.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article_thumbnail/SPECIALFEATURE-Woodshed1H.jpg?VersionId=YKTyxw.UUOAITsiyk8kywvumrf1u8xrQ&h=ec98a0f6&itok=GT5nXe2N)
What was once an old, abandoned woodshed on the Kent Campus from the early 1900s eventually evolved into a controversial and well-known piece of art.
New Face
kevin dilley
Director of Student Media
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Kent Campus
Familiar Face
robin selinger
Professor
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute
Kent Campus
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