KENT STATE UNIVERSITY


KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

Jennifer Farquhar of Ravenna, a May 2007 graduate, developed the Web site that won a national award for the Public Relations Student Society of America chapter at Kent State. The Website was recently honored as an Outstanding Chapter Web Site, earning a Teahan National Chapter Award from PRSSA. Farquhar, now a marketing and public relations specialist at Robinson Memorial Hospital, said the goal of the site was to recruit new members and to encourage current members to get more involved. The Kent chapter has won three consecutive annual Teahan awards.

OHIO UNIVERSITY, ATHENS, OHIO

Andy Goodhart of Mecca, has been named a finalist and reserve Marshall Scholarship candidate. Goodhart, also a senior Honors Tutorial College student, was among the approximately 20 percent of applicants who became finalists and earned an interview for the scholarship created by the British Parliament in 1953 to thank the American people for the post-World War II recovery Marshall Plan, named for U.S. Gen. George C. Marshall. Being designated as a reserve candidate means Goodhart is among a select few who are eligible for a Marshall if other awardees decline. He is pursing a combined bachelor’s and master’s degree in political science. He has studied abroad extensively and is president of the Ohio University chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

WESTMINSTER COLLEGE, NEW WILMINGTON, PA.

Joseph Elliott of New Castle has been awarded a grant from the Westminster College Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning to continue his undergraduate research. Elliott, son of Joseph Elliott, is a senior biochemistry major and a graduate of Laurel High School. He and Andrew Olphin, a senior chemistry major from Spring Grove, Pa., will use the grant to continue research on “Synthesis and Characterization of Polymers for Sequestering Carbon Dioxide Based on Poly (Vinyl Alcohol).”

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