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The November/December issue of Ohio Magazine featuring the city of Kent as one of its Best Hometowns for 2022-2023 is now available online.   The Best Hometown honor recognizes Kent as a great place to live, work and visit. The magazine’s editors chose Kent for its vibrant downtown, strong campus-community connection and focus on supporting residents and students alike.  Kent is one of five cities to be selected as a Best Hometown for 2022-2023, along with Athens, Bellefontaine, Perrysburg and Versailles.  To determine this year’s honorees for Best Hometown, Ohio M...

�������� professor of history, Elaine Frantz, provided historical insight to a recent Mississippi hate crime case. The man in question pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime charge for burning a cross in his yard to intimidate Black neighbors. Frantz provided context surrounding the history of cross burning, linking it to the Ku Klux Klan. She told the Washington Post that the actions committed in the trial were similar to early Klan activity. “This is exactly what the Klan is for,” said Frantz. “The Klan has always been about someone’s dog in someone else’s yard.” To ...

A video team from �������� interviewed students in the American Academy program in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. The team in is Brazil, along with university leaders to meet with the administrators, faculty and students and to attend the Winter Commencement ceremonies on Friday night.  The American Academy (AA) is a dual-enrollment program offered jointly by �������� and the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR), located in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Launched in July 2018, the program allows students to complete their first two years of u...

�������� senior Carlton “CeeJay” Scott Jr. can barely contain his excitement when he talks about his upcoming study-abroad experience at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.  The food, the people, the ancient pyramids – Scott’s goals are to create a short film while he is away, learn to speak Arabic and, hopefully, expand his cooking repertoire with new tastes and flavors of the Middle Eastern culture.  “Mostly I am looking forward to just learning the new culture and learning about the civilization outside of my own backyard,” he said of what will be...

The mist and foggy weather conditions on Thursday did not stop Iranian first-year students Ronika Marandi and Goli Kavoosi from leading a group of Kent State community members in a solidarity rally demanding human rights in Iran.  “No Justice, No Peace!” Marandi yelled into a megaphone, and a chorus of students, faculty, staff and community members repeated her with fervor. “Stand With the Women of Iran!”  Marandi and Kavoosi organized the rally in partnership with Kent State’s Women's Center and the School of Peace and Conflict Studies to raise awareness about the atrocities t...

The �������� Board of Trustees approved the establishment of a new master’s degree that will help meet two decades of sustained growth in the broad field of conflict studies. The new Peace and Conflict Studies major within the Master of Arts degree will be offered in person on the Kent Campus and will prepare students for careers as practitioners in the fields of peace and conflict management and for doctorate study. The School of Peace and Conflict Studies is Kent State’s “living memorial” to the four students killed by members of the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. For ne...

As Spotify users across the world took a deep dive into their memorable listening moments of 2022 through the audio streaming app’s Wrapped feature, Emerging Media and Technology students at Kent State turned their attention to another side of the platform this past week: its data.  Kent State alumnus Mike Bowen, ’03, has partnered with Assistant Professor David Silva’s Data in Emerging Media and Technology course for the last several years, and he visited the class Dec. 1 and 6 for discussions and workshop sessions. At Spotify, Bowen is a Principal Quantitative User Researcher and “us...

�������� President Todd Diacon is at it again! Episode 3 of his new video series “What’s the Big Idea?” finds him engaging with Elizabeth Smith-Pryor, Ph.D., associate professor of history with Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences. She is researching the impact of the mission of the Urban League, both the national and Cleveland chapters, and her work includes materials found at the �������� Library. So hop on board and let’s learn together.   Smith-Pryor specializes in African American history and women’s/gender history....

�������� is full of stories. You read them here every day and on pages across the university. You see them in video on social channels from Kent State and your departments. And some are taking advantage of storytelling with sound. Did you know, by the end of 2022, it is predicted that there will be 424 million people who listen to podcasts globally? With this storytelling platform growing by the day, storytellers everywhere are turning to podcasts to get their stories out to their audiences. On campus, our own students, faculty and staff have been using podcasts and new ones co...