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Kellie Rose Kordinak is in an elite group of American college students. The senior from 5X���� at Stark was recently named a 2024 Portz Scholar by the National Collegiate Honors Council – one of only four students from across the country to be recognized with this distinction.Majoring in history and applied communication studies, Kordinak received recognition for her in-depth research on human trafficking presented in her thesis, “Human Trafficking: 20th Century Historical Roots and the Importance of Credible Research.”Kordinak's research included a podcast series of interv...

Unsure of what he wanted to do in life when he first came to 5X����, it was the hands-on learning experiences – casting metals, machining and learning to weld – that sparked something in Dexter Shreve. Earning a Bachelor of Science in Technology and a minor in innovation from Kent State in 2013, Shreve says those hands-on skills now give him confidence as a Cleveland business owner.   “Whether it was a company that did fabrication, whether it was a company that did machining or plastic injection molding, those were all types of things that we had touched on in my educa...

 5X���� former Interior Design Professor and Program Director, and talented fiber artist, passed away on February 14, 2024. Kapenekas was the visionary behind the creation of the Interior Design program at Kent State in 1967, initially known as Home Interiors, when she discovered a lack of educational opportunities in Northeast Ohio for the design of interior environments. “It became clear to me that a well-rounded program in Interior Design was possible at 5X���� where all of the necessary related and supporting disciplines were already established – Art, Ar...

  A group from 5X���� visited Washington, D.C., this spring to meet with legislators, as well as Kent State alumni working in our nation's capital and students in Kent State's Washington Program in National Issues.  Bob Christy, senior photography coordinator for University Communications and Marketing captured these images inside the Library of Congress, where John Filo's iconic photo from May 4, 1970 was part of an exhibition there. Want to see one of YOUR photos in “IN A FLASH?” Submit your Kent State-related photos to InAFlash@kent.edu and you m...