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Courtney Donovan, ’20, came to Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ State to study art and pursue her interest in the sciences. She left with a career hand-sculpting new eyes, ears and noses for patients rebuilding their lives after cancer and trauma.
Laurie Ann Moennich, Ph.D., didn't arrive at Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ planning to change healthcare. She came to study graphic design. But Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ State had a way of opening doors she didn't even know existed.
When Becky Lehman walked into her first class at Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ, she was in her 30s, raising kids and working at an embroidery shop in nearby Mogadore, Ohio. Today, she is the health commissioner for the Portage County Health District – a career milestone she credits directly to the degrees she earned close to home at Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ State.
When Cameren Hicks graduated from Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ in 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and a minor in finance, he knew he wanted to build a career rooted in numbers, problem-solving and analysis. Today, Hicks is a fraud modeling and analytics lead associate at KeyBank, where he helps protect customers and the company against fraudulent credit and debit card activity.
Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ graduate Emma Sherrie, '09, always had a feeling she would study anthropology, but still she took the time to check out all the other options available before finally settling on her original plan. Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ State’s Exploratory Program, which helps undecided students sample different disciplines before committing to a major, was a key part of Sherrie’s experience, and the main reason she chose Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ State in the first place.
