Expanding University Initiatives
While a student-athlete, Bill Asbury fell ill with acute renal failure; Kent State supported him then, and now Bill and wife Deborah support current Golden Flash student-athletes.
George R. Newkome, Ph.D., and his wife, Mary Jane Saunders, Ph.D., pledged $1 million to fund this first-ever professorship in materials science in ÐãÉ«app’s College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Newkome is a two-time Kent State alumnus.