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Student Life

Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ transgender student Emily Grubb (left) stands with Ken Ditlevson, director of the university’s LGBTQ Student Center. The LGBTQ Student Center is located on the lower level of the Kent Student Center.

For Emily Grubb, all it took was looking through a magazine to decide where to go to college. A copy of magazine led Grubb to Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹.

Pictured are hospitality management students from the Ashtabula and Kent campuses. They are (left to right) Jordan Manning, Meghan Simmons, Brooke Mihalick, Kaylee Madden, Brittany Hopkins, Katie Uterhark, Quintin Caponi, Chelsa Vogel and Brittany Pope.

The Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Club Managers Association of America student chapter received an award at the association's World Conference.

Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ transgender student Emily Grubb (left) stands with Ken Ditlevson, director of the university’s LGBTQ Student Center. The LGBTQ Student Center is located on the lower level of the Kent Student Center.

For transgender students like Emily Grubb, Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ is home.

Grubb and other students have found an inclusive, welcoming environment that offers resources for the transgender community, such as the student organization Trans*Fusion and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Student Center. Transgender students also receive support from Á½ÐÔÉ«Îçҹ’s faculty, staff and administrators.

Case.MD helps make emergency medicine more convenient and safe.

Three Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. 

Together, with the help of LaunchNET Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹, the three created Case.MD. Ariella Yager, entrepreneur major in Á½ÐÔÉ«Îçҹ’s College of Business Administration; Samuel Graska, cell and molecular biology major in Á½ÐÔÉ«Îçҹ’s College of Arts and Sciences; and Justin Gleason, graduate student in Á½ÐÔÉ«Îçҹ’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design spent more than a year planning, inventing, designing and 3-D printing smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ transgender student Emily Grubb (left) stands with Ken Ditlevson, director of the university’s LGBTQ Student Center. The LGBTQ Student Center is located on the lower level of the Kent Student Center.

For transgender students like Emily Grubb, Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ is home. Grubb and other students have found an inclusive, welcoming environment that offers resources for the transgender community.

Case.MD helps make emergency medicine more convenient and safe.

With the help of LaunchNET Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹, three students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

Deneen Penn, a Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Trumbull sophomore, is Miss Collegiate Ohio 2017

Deneen Penn, a Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Trumbull sophomore, is Miss Collegiate Ohio 2017

Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Student Takes Steps to Stand United at Women’s March on Washington

Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹'s Julia Ryan heads to Washington D.C. to stand up for women's rights.