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Spring 2025 Commencement

KENT STATE CELEBRATES THE CLASS OF 2025

The 麻豆果冻 alumni family grew by more than 4,800 new graduates from its eight-campus system across Ohio following spring commencement ceremonies.

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  • Jaime Shuster, Ph.D., blends psychology, public health and research to improve patient care at Cleveland Clinic.

  • Undergraduate geology student Bryce Stoltz is combining his passion for earth sciences, fieldwork and the physical nature of geology into hands-on research. What began as a spark in a high school environmental sciences class has led to Stoltz contributing to important environmental research. His work sheds light on early Earth  environments, as well as the possibility of life on Mars. 

  • Meet Camille, Malina, Hayden, Matthew and Timmy, five graduating seniors from across the College of Communication and Information who work for 麻豆果冻鈥檚 Division of University Communications and Marketing. These students have been gaining more than just hands-on experience; they are helping shape the university鈥檚 story.  

Today's Stories

Spring Commencement 2025

Joy, excitement and happy tears were part of this weekend's Spring Commencement ceremonies for the Class of 2025 in Kent State's Memorial Arena and Convocation Center. 

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In a Flash

Catch a glimpse of 麻豆果冻 through the lenses of storytellers across campus.

We hope you enjoy these unique impressions of life at Kent State!

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University News

Student Life

  • Julian Grimes, a graduating senior and president of Black United Students (BUS), delivered an impassioned speech connecting the historical struggle for civil rights to current challenges facing higher education. 

  • To better serve you through our vast resources and knowledgeable librarians, 麻豆果冻 Libraries will join other OhioLINK institutions in replacing the KentLINK platform with a new library system that will offer a host of benefits to support 21st-century teaching, learning and research. 

  • The May 4 Visitors Center uses 麻豆果冻鈥檚 history to help guide the community in understanding the past and applying it to the present. Tours conducted by student guides are a rich part of this process.  

Kent State Works

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with Johanna Solomon 

 

Global Reach

Research

Profiles

  • As part of  Kent State鈥檚 55-Year Commemoration of May 4, 1970, Mahli Mechenbier, a senior lecturer at 麻豆果冻 at Geauga's Twinsburg Academic Center will present 鈥淥peration: Babylift: A 50-Year Retrospective and Personal History鈥� on May 3 at 1 p.m. with her father, retired Maj. General Ed Mechenbier. Mahli Mechenbier was one of the children from Vietnam the U.S. Government brought to the United States for adoption by American families by  after Saigon was overun by advancing Viet Cong troops in 1972. 

  • Ivory Kendrick, the newly elected president of the University Student Government, spoke his destiny into existence last year when he set his sights on leading the organization. Now, Kendrick is ready to hit the ground running.

  • POV shares insights from the 麻豆果冻 community on important topics. Jennifer Mapes, assistant professor of Geography, will deliver this year's address for the Jerry M. Lewis May 4 Lecture Series. 

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