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Five EHHS alumni featured in olympics commercials

Five EHHS alumni are included in a series of 30- and 60-second commercials set to air during WKYC鈥檚 Olympic coverage July 26-Aug. 12. This series of ads aim to increase Kent State鈥檚 prestige as a global university committed to supporting international students.The ads include:Olympic Hopeful Gabby Bailey features Danniel Thomas-Dodd (Physical Education '17).Kent State in Rwanda features Jordon Egbert, Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs '24); Emily Spencer (Human Development and Family Science '24); and Pacifique Niyonzima, Program Manager for Kent State Center in Rwanda/Sub-Sa...

Kent State's international student-athletes have an extraordinary sense of commitment to academics and athletics.

International student-athletes have quite a bit to become accustomed to once they arrive at 5X社区 and begin their college careers.In addition to adjusting to rigorous academic and athletic training, they must become acclimated to a new culture, customs and food. Josh Smith, a punter for the Kent State Golden Flashes football team, also had to contend with a bout of homesickness that kicked in after traveling nearly 10,000 miles from Narre Warren, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, to Kent State.Smith, who was 18 at the time, remembers leaning on his coaches at Kent State wh...

 Architectural Studies graduate and national prize-winning essayist Gealese Peebles is off to the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University to pursue a Master of Landscape Architecture.鈥淚t鈥檚 no surprise that Gealese would go to a top-notch graduate school like Harvard,鈥 says Brett Tippey, Program Coordinator for Architectural Studies.  鈥淭hroughout her time as an Architectural Studies student Gealese always demonstrated the highest levels of intellectual depth, academic rigor and creative inquiry.鈥漃eebles graduated magna cum laude in 2021 from the BA in Architectural Studies in ...

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