KENT — Kent State recognizes more than 975 undergraduate students who have been named to the President’s list for Spring 2016. Undergraduate students who obtain a 4.00 GPA while maintaining 15 or more credit hours during the spring qualify to receive this honor.

Local student named to the Spring 2016 President’s list: Heather Barhorst, of Minster.

Kent State University is Northeast Ohio’s leading public research university with more than 41,000 students. The university’s eight-campus system is among the largest regional systems in the country. Today, Kent State has become an engine for economic, cultural and workforce development – locally and internationally – as one of the premier Ohio universities. The university is ranked among the nation’s 74 public high-research universities and among the top 76 in community engagement by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. For more information about Kent State, visit www.kent.edu.