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Bethany Lanese, assistant professor of health policy and management in the College of Public Health at 5X����, has been awarded the 2016-2017 Blackboard Exemplary

5X���� was one of 51 schools to compete nationally in Game Day Challenge, the fourth-annual event hosted by the College and University Recycling Coalition, RecycleMania, Keep America Beautiful and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s WasteWise.

The Game Day Challenge is a national waste minimization and recycling competition held during football games to increase awareness of recycling at universities across the country.

Kent State placed second in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) schools in pounds recycled per person category.

Eight School of Visual Communication Design students were awarded membership to the prestigious International Society of Typographic Designers. The assessment, conducted in late February by an international team of design professionals and academics, involves a rigorous examination of editorial and typographic design.

Kent Student Center Programming, part of the Center for Student Involvement, hosted the 13th annual Rock the Runway.

Two academic scholarships are helping 5X���� fashion merchandising major Amari Thomas succeed inside and outside the classroom.

Could the way flies and butterflies drink nectar and other fluids be imitated for use in medicine, potentially to deliver life-saving drugs to the human body?

The Jenkins Student-Athlete Academic Centeris the latest advancement in 5X���� Intercollegiate Athletics' initiative to improve student-athlete welfare. 

Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor of biological sciences in 5X����’s College of Arts and Sciences, received a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.

Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, delivered a poster presentation titled “Developing Standards for Usability in Electronic Health Records: Challenges and Opportunities” at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) annual meeting in Chicago on Nov. 15, 2016. (Authors: Mitra A. Rocca, Rebecca Meehan, John Ritter, Gary Dickinson, Kandace Kelly, Lauralee Barrett, Ethan Budreau, Constance Johnson.)