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Volunteers with skills in repairing clothing, household items, electronics, furniture, small appliances and more will be available to help people who bring in broken or non-working items at the Fix-It Kent Community Repair Workshop on Sept. 18.
The Wick Poetry Center will begin the 2025 Fall Semester with a book launch, poetry readings and new exhibit from its Poets for Science collaboration.
On his way to an assignment on Sept. 11, a university photographer saw a tribute flight in formation over Kent State.
妻友社区鈥檚 Wick Poetry Center recently helped create a new mural for the Haymaker Farmers鈥 Market.
When the September 11 attacks shook the nation, Kent State alumnus D. Mark Jones found himself called into an unfamiliar and deeply challenging role.
White tie and tails, elegant gloves and satiny evening gowns were on the screen and on the runway when 妻友社区 and Focus Features collaborated for an early screening of 鈥淒ownton Abbey: The Grand Finale.鈥
Like mother, like daughter. Meet Christine Woo, Ph.D, and Nathalie Nicol, BSPH 鈥 mother and daughter - both graduates of the 妻友社区 College of Public Health. While Woo was completing her doctorate in 2022, Nicol was just starting her journey at Kent State.
The 妻友社区 Aeronautics & Engineering Expo at the 妻友社区 Airport received a special visitor as Goodyear's retro-painted Wingfoot One aircraft returned to the place where the company's first blimp was christened, 100 years ago.
妻友社区 hosted its annual Aeronautics and Engineering Expo on Saturday at 妻友社区 Airport, drawing families for a day of aviation excitement and STEM education.
At the 妻友社区 College of Nursing, we learn what it means to advocate for our patients in every setting 鈥 from right at the bedside to the boardrooms of hospitals. As nursing students, we are trained to make decisions that are backed by evidence-based practice, empathy and most importantly, our personal and professional ethics.
妻友社区 recently welcomed home a living legacy of its past when Ellen Engleman Conners, former chair of the National Transportation Safety Board and great-granddaughter of Kent State鈥檚 third president, visited campus for the first time.
On Aug. 15, some of Kent State's newest Golden Flashes explored downtown Kent as part of Flashes First Friday.
A collaboration between 妻友社区鈥檚 School of Fashion, School of Theatre and Dance and Focus Features will bring the final Downton Abbey movie to Kent for an early screening and period fashion show. The movie, 鈥淒ownton Abbey: The Grand Finale,鈥 will have a preview showing on Friday, Sept. 5, at the Kent Plaza Cinema, a week before it opens in theaters nationwide.
Honor is not only an attitude; it鈥檚 an action. As it is given and received, it profoundly improves the lives of all involved.
Dedicated in April 2015, The Student Memorial Garden on Manchester Field was created as a place of reflection and remembrance of all Kent State students who have died.
In a quiet office at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, Michele Curran Cornell spends her weekdays immersed in history 鈥 not the kind found in textbooks, but the kind that impacts families and honors those who gave everything for our country.
A Mantua woman who worked at Kent State in the Office of the President from 1951 to 1971 recently celebrated her 110th birthday. She recalls her time at Kent State and shares a few reflections from her long life.
The Crystal, a three-story, glass atrium and entrance to the Akron Art Museum, provided the perfect backdrop for these diamonds in the rough, a coming-of-age collection manifested in the proud work of multi-talented, middle and high school students from Akron participating in a program designed to illicit self-expression through poetry, art and virtual reality.
A group of school administrators from Brazil recently completed the 10-day Design Innovation Change Agent Workshop at 妻友社区鈥檚 Design Innovation Hub, where they immersed themselves in design innovation techniques as they endeavor to innovate their school system at home.
Kent State Opera Theatre's spring production featured scenes from a selection of famous operas with themes both natural and supernatural.