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After making a name for herself in the fashion industry, Molly Langenstein, the general business manager of Macy’s Ready to Wear, is returning home to her alma mater. Ms. Langenstein was recently announced as the ����Թ� Fashion School’s 2018 Hall of Fame inductee. Ms. Langenstein will join an impressive group of previous inductees, including Estée Lauder, Oscar de la Renta, Leonardo Ferragamo, Dana Buchman, Allen Questrom, Ralph Rucci, Josie Natori and Don Witkowski. “The Fashion School is truly honored to induct our alumna Molly Langenstein into our Fashion School Hall of Fa...

WHAT: Each year, hundreds of ����Թ� Golden Flashes gather across the globe to make a difference in their communities. ����Թ� State alumni and friends have the opportunity to participate in the 10th annual Alumni Day of Service on Saturday, April 21. Below is a list of volunteer sites in the Akron and Cleveland area. For more information, visit www.ksualumni.org/FlashesGiveBack. WHERE AND WHEN: Akron – Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. 350 Opportunity Pkwy., Akron, OH 44307 Volunteers will be volunteering alongside current ����Թ� State students. Alum...

����Թ� at Salem again received the Tree Campus USA recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation, which recognizes its efforts to promote forest management, horticulture studies and conservation. The campus will celebrate this recognition during its Earth Day observances on Thurs., April 26, beginning at 10 a.m. on campus. To receive this distinction, ����Թ� State Salem had to meet the Tree Campus USA’s five standards, providing detailed documentation for each standard. These include maintaining a tree advisory committee; having a campus tree-care plan; dedicating annual expenditures...

Several fashion design and merchandising students took first place in the Art/Fashion category of the 2018 KSU Undergraduate Research Symposium earlier this month. This year’s Symposium had the highest participation ever in the history of this annual event, resulting in nearly 400 students participating – a 60% increase compared to last year.   Undergraduate students of any major are eligible to participate and must submit a brief abstract of their work that indicates their intent to participate. In order to be eligible, their research, scholarly work, or activity must be completed ...

Niara Johnson, a freshman fashion merchandising major, was one of only five students chosen to receive a 2018 College of the Arts Flash Grant.  There will be a special reception on May 1, from 4:30 – 5:30 in the Rockwell Hall Atrium to celebrate her project, “Saving the World Through Sewing”. Flash Grants are open to students from any major within the College of the Arts, but their team can be comprised of students from another major, school or college on the ����Թ� Campus. The College awards grants of up to $600 to fund their research projects; Johnson was awarded the full $600 amount. ...

Alumni from the ����Թ� State School of Journalism and Mass Communication were part of two 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning stories. Terry DeMio, '86, the heroin beat reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, was one of two lead writers for “Seven Days of Heroin,” which won the Pulitzer for local news reporting. She has been reporting on the opioid epidemic in Cincinnati and Northern ����Թ�ucky for several years.  The story chronicled an "ordinary" week for people dealing with the heroin crisis, from those facing addiction and their families, to paramedics and police offi...