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ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ 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, ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ 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 ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡â€™s faculty, staff and administrators.

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

Three ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. 

Together, with the help of LaunchNET ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡, the three created Case.MD. Ariella Yager, entrepreneur major in ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡â€™s College of Business Administration; Samuel Graska, cell and molecular biology major in ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡â€™s College of Arts and Sciences; and Justin Gleason, graduate student in ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡â€™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.

ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ 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, ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ 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 ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡, three students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

Deneen Penn, a ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ Trumbull sophomore, is Miss Collegiate Ohio 2017

Deneen Penn, a ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ Trumbull sophomore, is Miss Collegiate Ohio 2017

ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ Student Takes Steps to Stand United at Women’s March on Washington

ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡'s Julia Ryan heads to Washington D.C. to stand up for women's rights.

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The Akron Beacon Journal talks with a ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ senior about how she has saved money since her freshman year.

Sam Olson makes her final year in the Veterinary Technology program a memorable one.